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The Global Countdown — 106 episodes

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World Cup special: Groups A and B

2

What's on Namibia’s music charts?

3

A celebration of Bulgarian pop

4

The Eurovision songs that you need to know

5

Eurovision 2026 favourites

6

The sounds of the Dutch Caribbean

7

When the Hungarian music charts turn political

8

The UAE charts are a global peek to international music

9

The kings and queens of the Colombian charts

10

Balen – the Nepali prime minister topping the charts

11

Sampling the world’s rising music markets from Mexico to Brazil

12

A look at who is topping the charts in the world’s biggest music markets

13

A chronological journey through Best Original Score winners at the Oscars

14

What’s on the South Korean charts this week?

15

The pop divas you should know

16

The top-five songs in Greece

17

Brazilian Carnival special: The songs to know in 2026

18

A Puerto Rican music celebration

19

How the Swedish charts blocked an AI-made number one, and the star power of Zara Larsson

20

The music charts from the world’s top-five economies

21

Sunny hits from Côte d'Ivoire

22

The appeal of the British Christmas number one

23

Monocle Radio’s favourite songs

24

Monocle ‘Alpino’ playlist

25

The Cambodian hit parade

26

Highlights from the Monocle Radio playlist

27

The divas of Belém

28

Rosalía’s return to the Spanish charts with ‘Berghain’

29

Previewing Monocle Radio’s autumn playlist

30

The largest first-week album sales in the US

31

India’s hit parade

32

A celebration of Egyptian pop

33

Portugal

34

Latin Grammy Awards special: Five artists to know

35

The new J-pop wave

36

The best of Catalan pop

37

The Senegalese charts are big on romance

38

The art of the Brazilian telenovela soundtrack

39

Why Madonna’s seminal ‘Ray of Light’ influenced the sound of 2025

40

The Global Countdown looks at the top songs worldwide including KPop Demon Hunters

41

‘The Global Countdown’ looks at music worldwide, including ‘KPop Demon Hunters’

42

Nigeria: One of the world’s most exciting music markets

43

Mexico

44

Hong Kong

45

Italy

46

‘Monocle Mediterraneo’ special

47

Summer Playlist 2025, part two

48

Monocle Radio’s Summer Playlist 2025

49

Top 5 ‘Te reo Māori’ singles

50

Summer listening: Brazilian tracks from the 1970s and 1980s

51

Malaysia

52

Argentina

53

Eurovision special: Five songs to hear this year

54

Portugal

55

Canada

56

Indonesia

57

Chile

58

Eurovision all-time victors

59

Romania

60

Rising music markets

61

Top five music markets

62

Mexican music charts

63

Spring playlist

64

Carnival special

65

Estonian beats

66

Nepalese music special

67

Exploring Finnish pop

68

Thailand

69

Sounds of South Africa

70

Top of the pops

71

Democratic Republic of the Congo

72

Monocle Radio playlist

73

Monocle Radio’s winter playlist

74

Austrian pop special

75

Tuning in to Italy

76

The Global Countdown – global charts special

77

The Global Countdown – US election special

78

The Global Countdown – Uruguay

79

The Global Countdown – Kazakhstan

80

The Global Countdown – Turkish pop timeline

81

The Global Countdown – autumn playlist

82

The Global Countdown – Sri Lanka

83

The Global Countdown – Middle East and North Africa

84

Estonia

85

The Global Countdown – Lithuania

86

The summer of love

87

Olympics special

88

Germany

89

Turkey

90

A snapshot of French pop

91

Uzbekistan

92

Monocle Summer Playlist, part 2

93

Monocle Summer Playlist

94

Sri Lanka

95

The best of European Pop

96

Elections special

97

Mongolia

98

Tanzania

99

Switzerland’s all-time greatest songs

100

Eurovision 2024 favourites

101

The Netherlands

102

Ireland

103

Spring music, part 2

104

Spring music, part 1

105

Top music markets, part 2

106

Top 5 music markets