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It's close, but 3:33, 5:00, and 4:20 are the most popular. Every time is represented, but 6:31AM, 8:41AM, and 9:49AM have only one song.

Entire list: https://pudding.cool/projects/clocks/assets/songs.csv

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The list seems to be slapping PM and AM together. So you could get a song about 10:02 PM at 10:02 AM, and probably the reverse.

Seems strange they would not use a 24 hour clock to associate the songs, and the songs not specifically being about before or after noon could be associated with both.

Indeed, it would feel weird to play 2 Minutes to Midnight two minutes before noon.

How would one compile such a list?

Do api calls to something like Apple Music or Spotify with “HH:mm” as the search string. Scrape the results. Do some more filtering on the results.

Ah so those APIs allow searching lyrics? I did not know that.

It's searching titles, not lyrics.

I see. Thanks.

No need for API calls. MusicBrainz has a very complete dataset. All Creative Commons.

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Database/Download

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