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Yacht Rock

61 tracks by 50 artists, spanning 1969–2016 — every one chosen and shelved by a person, not a model. This page is the room’s yacht rock shelf, counted honestly.

61tracks
50artists
1969–2016years covered
100%placed by a hand

61 of 61 tracks placed by a hand on the room’s four dials · 0 still waiting — a genre default, a placeholder, or a reading estimated from the record rather than taken from it

Where this shelf sits

Moodbright
blueelated
Energyunhurried
barely movingdriving
Densitybalanced
one instrumentwall of sound
Head · Bodyboth at once
all headall body

The mean of the 61 tracks on this shelf a person has actually placed. The other 0 are excluded: genre defaults and placeholders nobody has listened to yet, and records placed from knowing them rather than from hearing this pressing. An estimate may inform a choice; it may never render as a measurement, and a dial is a measurement.

Across time

1960
1970
1980
2000
2010

Heaviest in the 1970s — 9 of 20 dated tracks.

The biggest shelves

Where this shelf plays

the room · all presets · the shelves · the artist guides · the story · how the room works
hand-curated by zubair jeewanjee · no algorithm

Counts computed from the room’s own catalogue on 2026-08-29. Tracks that arrived carrying this genre’s default settings are counted here but held out of the room’s maps until somebody listens — a placeholder is not a placement. — Zubair Jeewanjee · zubair.jeewanjee@gmail.com