"Today's Top Hits" or "Billboard Top Hits" featured playlist
This is something that's extremely valuable on Spotify and Apple to see what the most popular songs are. If Giddy includes the same major content, it would be nice to have a similar playlist to hit play on without having to build one.
2 comments
Sign in to vote and join the discussion.
My preliminary research shows this is proprietary information we would need to pay for: Codex: Billboard publishes its charts publicly on the web, but it does not provide a free public API suitable for republishing them in Giddy. The official programmatic source is the Luminate Music API. It includes Billboard-owned charts and weekly rankings, but requires API credentials and appears to be a commercial product—you must request a demo/access rather than obtain a free developer key. See Luminate’s API offering and chart API documentation. Important distinctions: Scraping Billboard’s website or using an unofficial billboard.py-style scraper would be technically fragile and may violate content-republication terms. I would not ship that in production. Even if track names and artists are factual metadata, presenting a feature specifically as the “Billboard Hot 100” involves Billboard’s compiled chart, branding, and likely licensing requirements. A Luminate API subscription might provide data access without automatically granting all consumer-facing display and trademark rights. We should confirm both in the agreement.
Billboard excluded, is a playlist like this not available for free via Spotify or Apple Music? https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M?si=Hu_7CKgEQ-yufydMCOJGWA Otherwise, a Giddy-proprietary playlist would be my replacement recommendation.