The Aqueduct of Youth    intro   global playlist
The songs that define, unite and distinguish kids around the world right now, brought to you so you can be young at any moment.
kids from
 Everywhere
24.48Kyrgyzstan
25.24Bangladesh
25.53Pakistan
25.57Azerbaijan
25.61Nepal
25.99India
26.11Kazakhstan
26.50Sri Lanka
26.68Vietnam
26.73Indonesia
26.84Iraq
26.85Bosnia and Herzegovina
27.02Algeria
27.06Kenya
27.10Egypt
27.30Moldova
27.34Morocco
27.41North Macedonia
27.91Belarus
28.02South Korea
28.08Guatemala
28.12Jordan
28.20Nigeria
28.31Ukraine
28.54Turkey
28.58Saudi Arabia
28.73Honduras
28.86Georgia
29.08Bolivia
29.14Tunisia
29.26Nicaragua
29.29Malaysia
29.37Paraguay
29.44Philippines
29.50Thailand
29.52El Salvador
29.56Dominican Republic
29.78Serbia
30.06Croatia
30.19Ecuador
30.54Panama
30.74United Arab Emirates
30.80South Africa
30.99Romania
31.18Peru
31.35Lithuania
31.39Colombia
31.44Mexico
31.73Poland
31.86Slovakia
32.02Bulgaria
32.09Earth
32.29Costa Rica
32.37Venezuela
32.39Greece
32.76Brazil
32.96Latvia
33.01Slovenia
33.03Czech Republic
33.37Argentina
33.41Iceland
33.64Singapore
33.79Montenegro
33.85France
34.08Austria
34.08Hungary
34.11Israel
34.13Cyprus
34.18Portugal
34.19Hong Kong
34.32Chile
34.33Uruguay
34.37Taiwan
34.62Estonia
34.72USA
35.21Japan
35.38Italy
35.50Germany
35.73Canada
35.74Switzerland
35.89Finland
36.08Ireland
36.16Belgium
36.25New Zealand
36.39Australia
36.55United Kingdom
37.06Denmark
37.10Norway
37.12Spain
38.13Netherlands
38.65Sweden
Ireland    average listener age 36.08   average song age 9.5 kids · 13.1 adults
 
 kids adults
  
current 1The Tumbling Paddies "The Way I Am" 1The Tumbling Paddies "The Way I Am"
2The High Kings "Step It Out Mary" 2The Coronas "San Diego Song"
3Versatile "Prefontaine" 3Chasing Abbey "Oh My Johnny (Banks Of The Roses)"
4Ruaile Buaile "Maniac 2000" 4Aimée "Grafton Street Lights"
5Michael Maloney "What Do You Want To Know" 5Paddy Casey "Saints & Sinners"
6The Coronas "Addicted to Progress" 6Aslan "This Is"
7The Highstool Prophets "This Is The Life" 7The Whistlin' Donkeys "Bee's Wing"
8The 2 Johnnies "When I Play for the County" 8The Highstool Prophets "This Is The Life"
9Picture This "Take My Hand" 9Michael Maloney "What Do You Want To Know"
10Inhaler "Valentine" 10Bagatelle "Summer in Dublin"
11CamrinWatsin "Life Gets Hard" 11The 2 Johnnies "When I Play for the County"
12Fahri Mac "Step It Out" 12Ruaile Buaile "Maniac 2000"
13Danny Byrne Band "If I Die Young" 13Christy Moore "Ordinary Man"
14Nathan Carter "Beeswing" 14Mundy "Galway Girl"
15Fionn Curran "Shine" 15The Wolfe Tones "Grace"
16The Rubberbandits "Horse Outside" 16The Scratch "Cheeky Bastard"
17Chasing Abbey "Oh My Johnny (Banks Of The Roses)" 17Fahri Mac "Step It Out"
18JigJam "The Boys of Offaly" 18Bell X1 "Rocky Took A Lover"
19The Whistlin' Donkeys "Bee's Wing" 19Kojaque "CABRA DRIVE"
20The Wolfe Tones "Celtic Symphony" 20The Rattling Kind "King of the Road"
 and more... and more...
 
 
  
classic 1The Saw Doctors "N17" 1The Saw Doctors "N17"
2Aslan "Crazy World" 2The Stunning "Brewing Up a Storm"
3Goats Don’t Shave "Las Vegas (In the Hills of Donegal)" 3Dolores Keane "Caledonia"
4Richie Kavanagh "Stay Wut Her Johnny (I Am A Rally Driver)" 4Stockton's Wing "Beautiful Affair"
5Sharon Shannon "The Galway Girl" 5Goats Don’t Shave "Las Vegas (In the Hills of Donegal)"
6The Stunning "Brewing Up a Storm" 6Paul Brady "The Island"
7The Pogues "Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl)" 7The 4 Of Us "Mary"
8Dolores Keane "Caledonia" 8Mary Black "Past the Point of Rescue"
9The Fureys "The Green Fields of France" 9The Frank And Walters "After All"
10The Frank And Walters "After All" 10Big Tom "Four Country Roads"
11Nikolai "Ready to Flow - Original Mix" 11The Fureys "The Green Fields of France"
12Big Tom "Four Country Roads" 12The Frames "Revelate"
13Oasis "She's Electric" 13Mick Flavin "Someday You'll Love Me"
14Dominica "Gotta Let You Go - Club Mix" 14Sharon Shannon "The Galway Girl"
15Shaun Davey "Fisherman's Blues (by Mike Scott/Steve Wickham) [Waking Ned]" 15Richie Kavanagh "Aon Focal Eile"
16Foster & Allen "My Uncle Mike" 16Christie Hennessy "If You Were to Fall (And I Was to Fall in Love with You)"
17The Chieftains "The Foggy Dew (with Sinéad O'Connor)" 17Paul Harrington "Rock 'n' Roll Kids"
18Sultans Of Ping F.C. "Where's Me Jumper?" 18The Pogues "A Rainy Night in Soho"
19Phil Lynott "Old Town" 19Phil Lynott "Old Town"
20Mick Flavin "Someday You'll Love Me" 20Shane MacGowan & The Popes "Haunted"
 and more... and more...
 
 
alchemy by glenn mcdonald / @everynoise for Pop Con 2020, listening by the world

There is music of youth. It used to be that only kids knew what it was, but now that we have streaming, we all know what any of us knows.

This explorer was originally going to accompany a Pop Conference talk about the streaming patterns of youth. The pandemic moved the conference online, but the streaming patterns were already there, and the main goal of the talk was to give you another way of listening.

So here it is. Kids stream music, and I have engineered an Aqueduct to bring it to you. The Aqueduct of Youth is a playlist, generated weekly by math and listening patterns, of the songs that define, unite and distinguish kids around the world right now. And also an individual playlist for the kids from each country. And also the adults. And also two more for the classic songs from before 2000 (according to not-always-reliable release-date info) that kids and/or adults from each country still play, because I figured memory has to work differently depending on whether you were alive in the past or not.

You were young once. Kids are still young right now, all over the world. Joy is not intended to be secret.

We can all be young at any moment.

Elsewhere...
 
Every Demographic at Once for country/age/gender detail
Every School at Once for student listening
Every Noise at Once for genres sorted by listener age