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The insight

Oasis “Wonderwall” roughly doubled its daily streams during the 2026 World Cup.

Global Spotify rank went from 13 on 11 Jul to 1 on 15 Jul.

It was the second most Shazammed song in the world, across 54 markets.

The likely cause

England’s run is the obvious explanation, and we are still looking for a source that proves it. Until one turns up, the movement stands on its own: measured across 48 markets, dated, and checkable line by line.

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5M4M3M2M1M08 JUL10 JUL12 JUL14 JUL16 JUL17 JULBefore the knockouts, 2.4M a day4.6M. Number one in the world.

The Rotation chart · unedited

How it is calculated

Ranked by momentum: how fast a song is gaining ground across markets. Computed from the velocity ledger every morning and published exactly as computed. 25 of 50 shown.

  1. RankMoveTrack / ArtistScore
  2. 0145IrisThe Goo Goo Dolls90.8
  3. 0261hate that i made you love meAriana Grande90.0
  4. 0317Love Me NotRavyn Lenae89.3
  5. 0427OrdinaryAlex Warren88.7
  6. 0519End of BeginningDjo87.8
  7. 0623DtMFBad Bunny87.0
  8. 0715BabydollDominic Fike86.6
  9. 0821NUEVAYoLBad Bunny86.5
  10. 0927Sign of the TimesHarry Styles86.1
  11. 1016back to friendssombr85.6
  12. 1144WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!RAYE84.8
  13. 1221The One That Got AwayKaty Perry84.3
  14. 1316DraculaTame Impala84.0
  15. 1416Beautiful ThingsBenson Boone83.5
  16. 1528Every Breath You TakeThe Police82.6
  17. 1616EarringsMalcolm Todd81.8
  18. 17162The Fate of OpheliaTaylor Swift80.9
  19. 1826Tití Me PreguntóBad Bunny80.8
  20. 1911Mr. BrightsideThe Killers79.6
  21. 20Lush LifeZara Larsson78.8
  22. 2131Janice STFUDrake78.6
  23. 2256Sailor SongGigi Perez78.0
  24. 2350Die On This HillSIENNA SPIRO77.8
  25. 2433ChicagoMichael Jackson77.0
  26. 2519Wonderwall (Remastered)Oasis76.6
EARLY ON

The second axis

Ranked by concentration, not breadth: what is breaking hard in a few markets before the world has noticed. The chart above rewards a song for spreading; this one rewards a song for not having spread yet.

  1. RankTrack / ArtistConcentration
  2. 01Down UnderMen At Work50.8Breaking inaubrcadefiienlnonzse
  3. 02Tití Me PreguntóBad Bunny50.7Breaking indeesfrglobalitmxnlphplseus
  4. 03Sailor SongGigi Perez49.2Breaking inaucadegbglobalidieinnzphplus
  5. 04Si Antes Te Hubiera ConocidoKAROL G48.2Breaking inarclcoesfrglobalitmxnlworld
  6. 05Sweater WeatherThe Neighbourhood47.4Breaking inaubrcadefrgbglobalnlnonzplus
  7. 06Look at My LifeGracie Abrams46.8Breaking inaucadegbglobalienlnzseus
  8. 07Die On This HillSIENNA SPIRO46.3Breaking inaudkgbglobalidienonzphusworld
  9. 08Lose ControlTeddy Swims46.1Breaking inaubrcagbglobalnlnonzseusworld
REVIVAL

The third axis

Ranked by movement weighted against the age of the recording. A new single climbing is what new singles do; a 1981 record reversing its trajectory is an event, and something caused it. The chart above has no notion of age and structurally cannot tell those apart.

Nothing old moved enough on this day. The bar is deliberately high: a catalogue record drifting upward is not a revival, and an empty list is the honest result of saying so.

WONDER

The fourth axis

Ranked by how many markets are asking what a song is. Shazam is a chart of NOT KNOWING: every row is somebody who heard something and had to ask. It moves on the day of the event rather than two days later, which makes it the earliest signal here.

Nobody was asking about anything new on this day, at least not in enough places to mean it.

Method

The Rotation chart ranks how fast a song is gaining ground across markets, not how big it is. Every score decomposes into named signals; every entry carries published receipts.

Data: Spotify, Shazam, Apple Music, YouTube · Chart: Rotation

Sources

  • spotify
  • shazam
  • applemusic
  • youtube
What this chart cannot see
  • No TikTok measurement: the public sounds chart was removed in the TikTok One migration, and no vendor sells sound-level play counts because the platform does not publish them.
  • Geography is a Spotify-only signal. Every other source confirms that a song is moving, not where.
  • No Asian or African source contributed to this edition, so a song breaking first in Lagos, Seoul or Chengdu can be invisible here until it reaches a market we do capture.

Published 2026-07-20 07:45 UTC