Video Killed the Radio Star
The Buggles
- Key
- Ab major
- Camelot
- 4B
- BPM
- 130.1
Key confidence medium · relative F minor (4A) · BPM confidence medium · half-time 65.1 · measured from the full recording · 2026-09-12
The tempo changes across the track. The BPM above is the strongest single reading.
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As of 2026-09-02, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles has charted in 3 markets across 1 platform, peaking at #30 (AU) on the Rotation chart. Measured from the full recording, it reads Ab major (4B).
- Markets
- 3
- First seen
- 2026-07-20
- Latest chart date
- 2026-09-02
- Peak
- #30 au
Started in 2 markets, now in 3.
Momentum
This song has not appeared on a Rotation chart, so it has no score and no receipts. The rank history below is the ledger; a score is only published once the momentum run puts it on a chart.
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.
- MarketFirst seenPeak
- Francefr · shazam#100#52#100
- Spaines · shazam#79#64#79
- Australiaau · shazam · 1 city#30#30#30
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.
- au 1 city · best #30 brisbane
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Editions
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Identity
- ISRC
- Not known yet
- Slug
- the-buggles__video-killed-the-radio-star
- Sources
- shazam
About a sixth of the catalogue carries an ISRC today and the share grows nightly. Until one arrives this song is joined on its slug alone, which can merge or split.
Crude v0 identity: slug(artist)__slug(title).
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