Why are there some flags here that aren’t countries? If you can’t find it in there, leave a comment below and I can answer for you. This website is a really helpful guide, and it should have almost all of these. We recognize that we may have missed some gems of recordings here and there that may have changed our opinions, but that’s just how it goes.ĭon’t worry, I also could not name what a lot of these are, even after doing this. For those, we often chose the instrumental over a terribly-recorded and performed version. However, for some nations, a high-quality version of the anthem with vocals sadly just doesn’t exist. Every one of these has a boring march version, so we tried to avoid that whenever possible. After we went through those, though, we simply tried to find and choose the version that would give a country the best possible shot. Ian Berwick’s playlist was a godsend, and we used that whenever possible. As such, I took it upon myself to compile the list of YouTube links used, which you can see here. For any given country, were we using the instrumental? A vocal version? If so, which one? To me, it felt distinctly disingenuous to not specify what we used. I cared about this point immensely throughout this process. How did you decide which version of each anthem to use, and where can I see these? It is exclusively about the music of the anthem itself. Also, to be clear, this list is not a reflection of our thoughts on any country in any way. Two things we did not consider though: lyrical content and audio quality. We also gave extra points to any anthem whose lyrics were multilingual. Anthems that aren’t boring marches get props. In terms of factors we considered, originality was a big one - a lot of anthems are just boring marches. When there wasn’t a clear consensus on where a country should go (this almost never happened), we compromised on a place to put the country.
We listened through the anthem (or a verse or two if it just repeated the same music) and discussed amongst ourselves how much we liked it. Ultimately, it was arbitrary, but we kept quite a few things in mind. That’s lame and they should feel bad (you do not get to call “Ode to Joy” your anthem, EU). This tier is at the bottom not because the anthems are bad necessarily, but rather as a punishment for a nation or organization committing the gravest sin imaginable - not composing its own anthem and stealing it from someone else. The top left country is the best in that tier, and the bottom right the worst. Within these tiers, they are also ordered. The top tier contains the highest quality anthems, and as you descend they are overall worse in our opinion.
#NATIONAL ANTHEM SERIES#
For those who have never heard of it, I explained it in the intro to my Westworld series, but it is essentially a series of categories of quality. Then a second friend said the same to me in an unrelated conversation, and from there it was destiny.” “The first friend suggested we rank every anthem, and I laughed it off. Then a second friend said the same to me in an unrelated conversation, and from there it was destiny. The first friend suggested we rank every anthem, and I laughed it off. I remarked to some of my friends that it was not very good and also how hard it was to find a quality version of it. Part of that project had me listen to the anthem and look at the lyrics. To keep an uninteresting story short, I was working on a project on Niger earlier this year for AP Human Geography. This legitimately may be the most comprehensive overview of the national anthems ever created, so for this piece, let me try to answer as many questions as I can anticipate you having.
It was as time-consuming and complex as you’d think. Over the course of two months, two friends and I listened to and then ranked every single national anthem and then some. ApYou can find a written list of the national anthem tiers by clicking on the image.
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