What's working in Jazz
This page turns into a live chart of real jazz songs, ranked by Songbrain's virality score.
No jazz songs on the public leaderboard yet — the chart opens at 10.
Counted: real uploads whose artists put them on the public leaderboard. Last update Oct 19, 2026.
Jazz basics
General genre knowledge — not from the chart above.
4 things that make a jazz track work
- 1Ensemble interplay matters more than any single solo.
- 2A groove that reaches beyond jazz listeners opens doors.
- 3Write a real composition, not just a head plus solos.
- 4Record the room. Jazz needs air in the mix.
Jazz questions
Is lo-fi jazz real jazz?
It depends. Lo-fi beats with jazz samples are beat music. Tracks with live improvisation and jazz harmony are jazz with a lo-fi sound.
What is jazz-funk?
Jazz harmony and improvisation over a funk rhythm section, with the groove up front.
Where do the numbers on this page come from?
From Songbrain's public leaderboard: songs that artists uploaded for analysis and chose to show publicly. Reference tracks from commercial releases are not counted. Each song gets a 0–100 virality score from its audio. The page refreshes weekly, and a genre's chart opens once it has 10 songs.