Time Machine

Your life, in music.

Tell us your age and get your life in songs: childhood, teens, twenties, year by year.

Fresh picks

A different dozen from every era each hour. Press play on anything.

Browse by genre

The story of a genre and its best videos, decade by decade.

About Music By Decade

Music By Decade is a hand-picked collection of music videos from the 1900s to the 2020s: 3,800+ songs by 1,300+ artists. Pick a decade and it plays like a radio station: one video after another, with the story behind each song next to it.

Start with the 1980s, go back to the 1960s or see what the 2010s sounded like. Every decade page tells how its music came about, and every artist has a page with their videos. Not sure where to begin? The Time Machine above plays the music of your own teenage years.