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Uhsting's Chart turns 10 in December!

Uhsting's Chart is a weekly chart that brings 50 mostly new songs every week from all around the world regardless of language. The most common genre of Uhsting's Chart is pop, alternative, electronic, indie, rock and contemporary classical. Each week I listen to a bunch of New Music Friday playlists thanks to Spotify, and discover new songs from different personal charts and song contests.

I have been making Uhsting's Chart since I was really small (12 years old) and I am proud to have continued to do that for 10 years! Although there are periods of hiatus in between, the present iteration begins in March 2020 with a time-consuming but the most sustainable method in keeping all the new entries released mostly in the past few weeks.

I first got infatuated to listening to songs when I was small through the radio. I then got into habit of listening to the radio chart every week to vibe with the latest new songs. It was also at that time I had more sources of finding great songs around the world. I first bumped into a popular personal chart TheGeoKing on YouTube back at the time and found that there are a lot of songs that are yet to be discovered, and quickly got disillusioned by the quality of some of the popular songs I was listening to, so I created my own chart to document my latest findings. I also wanted to share my chart to the public and YouTube became a good platform to do so. At first, I only created videos using Windows Movie Maker, only to switch to PowerDirector some years later. It was pretty potato quality but that's how my first video got uploaded to YouTube.

Throughout the years, there have been a lot of changes to how I chart the songs, or there is a specific mechanism in the movement of the songs. Sometimes, I ran into the problem of songs piling up my playlist because I didn't know how to select good songs, which frustrated me and caused me to give up the chart momentarily or redo the chart completely -- the birth of the non-mainstream chart. I remember there was a time I had multiple no. 1s! At first, my top 50 personal chart proves to be quite popular. As time goes, views dwindled and I started to find ways to keep the number of views high enough. It also didn't help I'm quite a busy person so I often fall behind with the chart. Currently, I have found a good way to select the top 50 songs every week for my chart and a good way to rank the songs so that it doesn't feel formulaic that the songs move in a certain way on the chart. I have also tried to maintain the schedule, though it can be quite tricky! Nevertheless, I really enjoy the process of finding new songs, albeit a hugely time-consuming process!

There is also a notable shift in my music taste throughout the years, some quite questionable and indicative of my problematic era. I first started with some relatively well-known songs, and included some songs from very small channels to promote their music. Then, I began to take a lot of songs from personal charts. Eurovision also helped me to find loads of great songs. Around the mid-2010s, I ventured into the realm of contemporary classical, and I really loved a lot of the tracks there. That became a hugely dominant genre in the chart (which might have turned people away). Probably around the late-2010s, sad emotional songs became the main type of songs that is found on my chart. Now, I can be proud of the hugely diverse range of tracks that I have, that features different moods and genres.

End of the long story of my chart, there will be a special video released on my YouTube channel on the first week of December, featuring top 25 songs on the 1st week of my chart and top 25 songs on the current week of my chart. Stay tuned!