Rotation

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. 0112Dai Dai (Official Video)Shakira, Burna Boy82.8
  3. 02=NUEVAYoLBad Bunny82.5
  4. 031DtMFBad Bunny79.8
  5. 042Movin' To The SunHUGEL78.0
  6. 052hate that i made you love me (official music video)Ariana Grande75.5
  7. 061Love Me NotRavyn Lenae73.5
  8. 072Jamaican (Bam Bam)HUGEL72.8
  9. 0815Lush Life (Official Video)Zara Larsson69.3
  10. 092OrdinaryAlex Warren69.2
  11. 103Beautiful Things (Official Music Video)Benson Boone69.2
  12. 116WonderwallOasis68.7
  13. 12=Sign of the Times (Official Video)Harry Styles68.4
  14. 1317Billie JeanMichael Jackson67.9
  15. 14=Every Breath You Take (Official Music Video)The Police67.8
  16. 1514We Are The PeopleEmpire Of The Sun67.5
  17. 166FREAKED OUTFat Papi67.4
  18. 179IrisThe Goo Goo Dolls66.1
  19. 183BabydollDominic Fike65.8
  20. 198Si Antes Te Hubiera ConocidoKAROL G65.0
  21. 204The One That Got AwayKaty Perry63.9
  22. 2125RaindanceDave & Tems63.8
  23. 223Die With A Smile (Official Music Video)Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars63.7
  24. 2313Beauty And A BeatJustin Bieber63.1
  25. 249Look at My LifeGracie Abrams63.0
  26. 2528AfricaToto62.3
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. 01Mi Segunda VidaLa Arrolladora Banda El Limón De Rene Camacho33.6Breaking ingthnmxnisv
  3. 02Hey Ya!Outkast33.3Breaking inaucagbnzus
  4. 03Yo te conozco :):De La Rose33.0Breaking inarbopepyuyve
  5. 04Polvo RositaLenin Ramírez31.0Breaking inbococrgthnmxnisvus
  6. 05VirgenAdolescent's Orquesta28.8Breaking inclcocrdoecmxpapesvve
  7. 06Teenage DirtbagWheatus28.4Breaking inataucadegbnzza
  8. 07Pa' Que RetozenTego Calderón28.1Breaking incoecgthnnipesvve
  9. 08MorenaNeton Vega27.9Breaking ingthnmxnisv
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.

  1. RankTrack / ArtistRevival
  2. 01Have You Ever Seen The RainCreedence Clearwater Revival73.2recorded 1970, 56 years ago and climbing again
  3. 02Thunderstruck (Official Video)AC/DC67.6recorded 1990, 36 years ago and climbing again
  4. 03Billie JeanMichael Jackson66.8recorded 1999, 27 years ago and climbing again
  5. 04AfricaToto66.4recorded 1998, 28 years ago and climbing again
  6. 05Don't Stop Believin'Journey62.5recorded 1981, 45 years ago and climbing again
  7. 06Your LoveThe Outfield61.6recorded 1985, 41 years ago and climbing again
  8. 07Beat ItMichael Jackson61.3recorded 1999, 27 years ago and climbing again
  9. 08Beauty And A BeatJustin Bieber60.2recorded 2012, 14 years ago
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

    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 2026-07-22 07:13 UTC