About

A free weekly email for music lovers.

This Next Song is about songs you know by heart, old and new. Each issue picks a moment you can hear, gives you the second to skip to, and tells you who played it and how it got there.

How it's made

AI tools do the digging and the first draft. They read credits, interviews and chart data, and every fact needs two sources. A person checks the times by ear and approves every issue.

What we keep to

• We cover how a song sounds and how it was made, never what it means.
• No guessed times and no guessed firsts.
• Music wasn't better then. Every issue sets an old song beside a new one.

Who makes it

This Next Song is made by Alex Vita in Bucharest, Romania. Write to hello@thisnextsong.com about anything, including a song you think we got wrong.

Credits

Number-one data comes from Chris Dalla Riva's count of Hot 100 number ones. Release data comes from MusicBrainz. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons, credited under each one. We aren't affiliated with any artist, label or chart.