Joshua Baraka’s “YoYo” was compared by sound against every record charting in 91 countries. Tanzania came out closest, on the charts for the week of 31 August 2026.
The comparison is a model’s judgement, and it matches a human ear about two times in three. Every record below was charting in Tanzania that week, from #9 to #188, so the differences in the scores come from the sound itself.
Most of what is winning in Tanzania sits close to YoYo: of the twenty records on the Shazam chart there, twelve score 80% or above and nine are above 87% — Mbosso at #4, Saluh at #11, Loynizer at #13. Seven score lower, and two of those are doing very well: MwanaFA’s “Baraka Nyingi”, which has peaked at #1 and sits at #3, scores 51.6%, and Ayra Starr’s “Track 14”, which peaked at #3 and sits at #6, scores 50.7%. One of the twenty has no score. So the score follows how a record sounds rather than how it is performing (Shazam Tanzania, read 10 September 2026).
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How close each record sounds to YoYo, as a percentage. The comparison agrees with a human ear about two times in three, so treat it as a starting point and check by ear.
Positions are for the week beginning 31 August, read 7 September 2026, on Shazam Tanzania (top 200) or YouTube Tanzania top songs (top 100). All 24 were charting in Tanzania, the lowest-scoring included. The arrow shows the same record on the Shazam chart a week later, read 10 September 2026: 13 of the 14 Shazam rows were still on it. The YouTube rows have no later reading.
Positions can move a long way in a week. Harmonize and Marioo’s “Tangazo” went from #97 to #29 between the two readings.
Two records a percentage point apart are not meaningfully different. Previews are 30 seconds from Deezer.