Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nirvana
- Key
- F minor
- Camelot
- 4A
- BPM
- 116.5
Key confidence low · relative Ab major (4B) · BPM confidence medium · half-time 58.3 · measured from the full recording · 2026-09-12 · essentia.js@2.1-beta6-dev
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As of 2026-08-08, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana has charted in 76 markets across 6 platforms, peaking at #3 (CZ) on the Rotation chart. Measured from the full recording, it runs at 116.5 BPM.
- Markets
- 76
- First seen
- 2026-06-17
- Latest chart date
- 2026-09-11
- Peak
- #3 cz
Started in 18 markets, now in 76.
Why it's moving
- Plays up 5% in the US, with gains across 5 markets
- Shazam's #2 across 31 marketsAug 8
- Turned around worldwide: was slipping 6 places a day, now climbing 5.5 places a dayAug 1–4
- Climbed #105 → #93 in the USAug 1–4
- Turned around in the US: was slipping 8 places a day, now climbing 10 places a dayAug 1–4
- Climbed #136 → #125 in the UKAug 1–4
Score 63.5
Why it's here
Billboard chart reporting dated August 30, 2026 documented "Smells Like Teen Spirit" hitting simultaneous new all-time peaks on both the Billboard Global 200 (No. 8) and Global Excl. U.S., decades after the song's 1991 release. [1] The climb was gradual rather than tied to a single event: three weeks earlier the same song had moved from No. 110 to No. 105 on Billboard's Global Excl. U.S. chart, and it had re-entered Billboard's Rock Streaming Songs chart for the week of June 20, 2026, its 138th week on that list. [2] The record's standing rests on its status as the lead single from Nevermind that carried grunge into the mainstream, peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and selling over 13 million copies worldwide. [3]
Across markets · earliest pickup first
Every date here is the date the source chart covers, never the date we fetched it. Sources publish on different lags: the Spotify mirror runs about two days behind, TurnTable publishes weekly. One recording, one history: this table also counts the rows sources published under 3 other handles of this record (remasters, official videos).
- MarketFirst seenPeak
- Czechiacz · applemusic applemusic_kworb deezer shazam spotify#84#3#84
- Ukraineua · applemusic applemusic_kworb deezer shazam spotify · 1 city#9#5#9
- United Statesus · applemusic_kworb shazam spotify · 29 cities#8#8#8
- Polandpl · applemusic applemusic_kworb deezer shazam spotify#19#12#19
- Estoniaee · applemusic applemusic_kworb deezer spotify#48#20#48
- Slovakiask · applemusic_kworb deezer spotify#21#21#21
- Austriaat · applemusic applemusic_kworb shazam spotify#31#31#31
- Belarusby · applemusic shazam spotify#97#31#97
Worldwide feeds · not markets
A source's own worldwide chart. These are feeds, not places, so they are kept out of the market count above.
- MarketFirst seenPeak
- Global feedglobal · applemusic_kworb spotify youtube#189#67#189
- World feedworld · shazam#3#2#3
City pickups
City charts record their parent country as the market, so these do not add to the market count above. One line per country: how many of its rooms picked the song up, and the best of them.
- us 29 cities · best #8 cincinnati
- de 4 cities · best #36 berlin
- ru 2 cities · best #45 moscow
- au 1 city · best #37 adelaide
- ca 1 city · best #50 calgary
- pe 1 city · best #44 lima
- ua 1 city · best #47 kyiv
Listen
Editions
- 2026-08-08Chart-only edition#26
- 2026-08-07Chart-only edition#3
- 2026-08-06Chart-only edition#11
- 2026-07-21Chart-only edition#46
- 2026-07-20Chart-only edition#38
Identity
- ISRC
- USGF19942501
- Slug
- nirvana__smells-like-teen-spirit
- Sources
- applemusic, applemusic_kworb, deezer, shazam, spotify, youtube
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