Are chart toppers also YouTube hits? The quiz idea from b3ta 932
I made this!
let's just refresh our memory ...
wait, did rob say all the no 1s? this quiz only has the 300+ singles that reached no 1 for 4 weeks or more (including Sister Sledge's Frankie)
* SAY I'M YOUR NO 1 - a quiz that uses all the
UK no 1s and looks up how many views they've had
on youtube and you have to guess which one has
better or crapper numbers. We say this as there
are forgotten hits there that have left little
cultural trace: no one gives a shit about Sister
Sledge's Frankie for some reason, but a huge hit
in its time.
(, Sun 25 Jan 2026, 11:37, Reply)
aha ace
I got some deeply unfair vs on my 1st round followed by some v obscure tracks on my second, so nicely random
edit: impressive lurking!
(, Sun 25 Jan 2026, 13:47, Reply)
maths alert
cheers! behind the scenes, the randomness is the Mersenne Twister (a 1997 hit by that Japanese duo, Matsumoto and Nishimura) shuffling all items in the hit-list, and then selecting 20 off the top. MT provides a nice pseudo-random distribution and also has a website in the best old-Web tradition.
(edit: i didn't intend to lurk so long)
(, Sun 25 Jan 2026, 17:09, Reply)
Good game
but it seems that the most recent song is always the correct answer. I blame GenZee.
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tinglto 4 sheets to the wind, Sun 25 Jan 2026, 13:58,
Reply)
Just played again and only got 4 out of 10 using the recent date method so I take back my earlier comment.
Really enjoying the game and passed on to my mate.
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tinglto 4 sheets to the wind, Sun 25 Jan 2026, 19:23,
Reply)
Nice
Perhaps make it so the questions are always two from the same decade to make them a bit better matched?
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monkeon schmonkeon, Sun 25 Jan 2026, 14:51,
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decade batte mode enabled
can do! I think there's a lot of fun in the original setup, but I've added a dropdown to pick a decade for the whole quiz
(, Tue 27 Jan 2026, 23:02, Reply)
click here for hi-bandwidth version
if you know anyone who does 90s ray-tracing graphics these days i will commission some
i've added a secret gif you can see if you get 10/10 (check out somebody's perfect score)
(, Sun 25 Jan 2026, 20:04, Reply)
Score.
I don't trust my opinion sufficiently to rate it, but I enjoyed it.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Mon 26 Jan 2026, 11:42,
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The moral of this game is that the YouTube public have terrible taste
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Mon 26 Jan 2026, 11:07,
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not about the music but all about the age of the music
for some, everything sounds like it belongs on that advert where the happy couple go round laughing at things like an old car while the voiceover burbles on about 'do you remember this classic hit' before playing something from the fifties or early sixties.
All that changes is the decades the music is from as time waits for no man and the grave is hurrying near.
(, Mon 26 Jan 2026, 12:29, Reply)
in another world
in a modern implementation of this game, probably
even without embedding the YouTube (for those videos which allow embedding) we could get a music preview from Spotify or perhaps another service
however, in Web 1.0 land, no, i don’t fancy hosting the audio … this website intentionally has no cookies or embeds
(, Mon 26 Jan 2026, 17:13, Reply)
