Finding well known songs in different genre and time periods

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Hi,

I want to use the API to get songs for a game. The songs should be in different genre and time periods but most of the songs should likely be recognized by people (the players). I also want to get the original release date of the songs. I want to get thousands of songs to chose from so the top 10 songs from each year is not enough.

I would appreciate any help on how to approach this.

Thanks!

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We don’t have popularity in our database so that’d be complicated (we also don’t have the music itself, but I expect you know that). Using ListenBrainz data for popularity could work somewhat, although of course it’s a small subset of the real world’s listening habits (but I’m not sure if there’s a good API for that).

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Another approach that might work (though it seems the data is not there) is to use series of charts. Say take the top 10 out of each Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of YEAR.

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