timeline.music
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Hear the songs, artists and scenes that shaped cities and countries around the world.
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Follow a sound as it moves between places and across decades.
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Moments
Daft Punk say goodbye with an eight-minute film and no words
On 22 February 2021 a video called Epilogue appeared on Daft Punk's channel. One robot walks into the desert and self-destructs; the other walks on. Twenty-eight years ended without a press release.
A whole country dances to Jerusalema on Heritage Day
In the middle of the pandemic, South Africa's president asked the nation to learn one dance. On 24 September 2020 nurses, police, firefighters and families did it in the street, to a gospel-house song sung in isiZulu.
BTS tell the United Nations to speak yourself
On 24 September 2018 seven young men from Seoul stood at a lectern in the UN General Assembly building, and RM spoke for seven minutes about a boy from Ilsan who learned to love himself.
Stories
Rim Tim Tagi Dim
Baby Lasagna
Marko Purišić, who performs as Baby Lasagna, wrote Rim Tim Tagi Dim alone in his bedroom. By his account the spark was a job on a…
Read the storyCoup du marteau
Tam Sir
Tam Sir was not trying to write a football anthem. The 25-year-old Ivorian beatmaker told Jeune Afrique that he simply wanted a…
Read the storyBaraye
Shervin Hajipour
After the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022, a young woman arrested for allegedly wearing her hijab improperly who died in…
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About timeline.music
timeline.music maps the world's music by place and by time. Each country opens with a hitlist you can play and a timeline of the genres and artists that shaped it, followed by the stories behind the songs and the moments that changed what came next. Every country page lists the sources it was built from.
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