all 196 national anthems, ranked by an actual musician 

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From Azerbaijan, to be honest I never expected anyone to give more than 30 seconds mention to our country in a list inclusive of the whole world but recognition is good when it deserves :)

I really love the Russian Anthem, Brazilian Anthem and specially THE AZERBAIJAN ANTHEM

azerbaijani anthem is definitely one of the best ones in the world. It was composed by the greatest Azerbaijani composer of that time

As an fellow Azerbaijani, It's composed by Uzeyir Hajibeyli. What did you expect

"Nobody knows what Azerbaijan really is". No truer words have ever been spoken.

This video is a year old so you’ll probably never see this, but Azerbaijan’s anthem is also my favorite, and as an avid f1 fan, I got to hear the best version of it that’s ever been performed before the race there a few weeks ago. Definitely worth a look

Basing it on Wikipedia may be unfair, as Wikipedia likes picking random unstrumental versions, rather than the best version of each anthem. My favourite anthems are *AZERBAIJAN,* Brazil, Ukraine, Russia, China, Argentina and Mexico. Much love from Brazil!

As an Azerbaijani this video really honored me. Tbh as a person who understands Azerbaijani, anthems words are truly enough to make a grown man cry. Listening to this athem gives me goosebumps

In my opinion, national anthems should not be judged on the basis of our usual music metrics like "Oh this sounds fire!" of curse, that's one aspect of it but not entirely. I would say that each country has its own perception of what their national anthem means to them or what it represents to the world. For example, Colonial Empires like Britain inspire pride in their monarchy and nation, the indian national anthem tells you how diverse the landscape and the states of the country are, the Turkish anthem perhaps boasts of their majestic history, some national anthem make you feel as if you're on a beach but thats their intended purpose as they convey the spirit of the nation. This is why the communist country have somewhat similar themed anthems in this music and meaning. More peaceful countries make you feel as though you are basking in the mild autumn wind on a clear day. I could go on and on just like this. You see, a national anthem dosen't necessarily have to sound perfect.. It should do its intended purpose and that should be the metric to judge an anthem. An anthem is far far greater than a simple piece of music, it conveys the struggles, culture, hope, history, present, future, mindset, and the will of all those who reside in that country. Not all nations want other nations to fear them, not all nations think of war 24/7, not all nation want to make a huge spectacle. In the end, its about what the essence of that nation is.

As an Azerbaijani, I understand you, Bro. 34:51 is my favorite moment 😄 We only live once. Someday you will definitely need to hear this anthem on the streets of Baku

As a Native Azerbaijani Turk, I am very suprised that you love our Anthem ! Thank you ! Greetings from Baku City - Land of Fire ! 🇦🇿😎👍🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

The Azerbaijan national anthem done in the 2019 formula 1 race is by far my favourite version, the fact that it's a duet makes it so much better

Bruh my shower thought turned into a 41 minute long video. Thanks homie, really naice and underrated video.

Thank you much love and respect from Azerbaijan. We need such an anthem when we are sorrounded with countries like Russia, Iran, Armenia

29:56 Funnily enough, there's an aria from an opera called "Don Sanche" that pretty much resembles our anthem and was probably an inspiration for the composer. If you search for the opera you'll probably find a comparison video of the two.

Btw, the Jordan anthem is actually longer than that (about 2 minutes long). But idk why wikipedia just use the short version of the anthem instead the full one

I am an Azerbaijani living in Germany and I was not expecting that someone will simping to my homeland's anthem. Hell yeah! Thank you for making me proud, gg with your Yt career

I came to this video specifically to find someone else who likes the Azerbaijan anthem, I have been searching the internet for someone who agrees with my opinion on this masterpiece

I am sorry but ... Why would you rate them from instrumental versions ... Their whole purpose is to be sang... And like " _Kimi Ga Yo_ " is SO inspiring how in hell did it end up in E 😂

I was listening to our national anthem (Indonesia) being played at the olympics, it made me tear up and i thought it sounds pretty good. So i went and looked for national anthem tierlists to see where it was ranked and found your vid. Didnt think anyone would make a high quality vid about it, not to mention on every country.. thanks for the amazing video. Now i know national anthems that sounds even better lol uwu.

FINALLY SOMEONE WHO KNOWS!!! Man this is the best ranking ever made. Congrats man, amazing analysis 👌🏻

I’m not even into composition, but this vid was a worthwhile watch in large part due to how you expressed your personality and passion through it. You should definitely upload more

Fun fact: The brazilian anthem IS INDEED an opera, it was originally written to be a coronation anthem for the monarch, but then it got used to be an instrumental anthem until 1920, with it's modern lyrics

What I like most about Brazil is that we have the national anthem being about our nature, our people, justice, freedom and then we have the independence anthem being a call to arms and mocking other nations. The independence anthem literally says “there were more powerful hands (countries), Brazil mocked them” and “The Homeland shall be free or we shall die for Brazil” and “Amongst all nations of the universe, Brazil is the one to shine”.

Dude, really thank you for the appreciation to the anthem from my homeland El Salvador! Truly unexpected but welcomed

Anthem of Azerbaijan LYRICS: Azerbaijan! Azerbaijan! Oh you glorious motherland of the brave child! We are all together ready to give our lives for you! We are all able to sacrifice our blood for you! Live blissfully with your tri-coloured flag! Live blissfully with your tri-coloured flag! Thousands of lives were sacrificed! Your chest became an arena for battles! Soldiers which gave their lives for you, All of them became heroes! You shall be a garden full of roses! The sacrifice of our souls anytime for you! Never-ending love for you, Has got a place in my chest( The place in my chest!) In order to maintain your honour, In order to elevate your flag, In order to maintain your honour, All the young are eager! Glorious Homeland! Glorious Homeland! Azerbaijan! Azerbaijan! Azerbaijan! Azerbaijan!

The Brazilian in me felt unbelievably happy to see us ranked higher than Argentina. It is meaningless but everything at the same time.

Good video mate, like the effort. Now do the historical list >:)

When Charles Leclerc wins F1, you get to listen to Monaco and Italy's anthems back to back, absolutely beautiful

the dominican anthem may officially be called "himno nacional", it might not be but we have our own name for it, being "quisqueyanos valientes", meaning valiant quisqueyans, or valiant dominicans, basically the first lyric of the anthem itself. i think that it fits the anthem as a whole also lots of the songs have no vocals because a lot are performed by the us navy band

The national anthem of Jordan isn't that short. The recording you listened to was actually a shortened version. The full anthem is actually pretty good I'd say.

As a Trinidadian I didn't expect ours to get so high Note: it was composed for the united west indies before the countries split

Brenes actually wrote the lyrics to the Costa Rican anthem, not the music. The man responsible for that would be Manuel María Gutiérrez

41:33 minutes long 117 views, time well spent

10:50 Turkey is not a Soviet area, Turkey is NATO member state since 1952.But thank you for nice comment to our national anthem!

North Yemen sounds like I just walked into Peach’s Castle in Mario 64 but I’m playing with a foreign bootleg cartridge that I found in a swamp

Holy shit this is amazing I like finding random videos from small youtubers that wind up being really good

You did South Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Maceona and the US dirty. The US was boring for me until I listened to "1980s The Star-Spangled Banner - National Anthem Station Signoff *note there are a lot of flashes*".

In the defense of Bhutan's national anthem, an instrumental version of the song like what is played on Wikipedia doesn't do it justice because Bhutan's National Anthem is very much a song that is made by the vocals.

Wow I didn't expected this as an Azerbaijani thank you. Yes our anthem with all versions (vocal, instrumental, orchestra) is so good. But we ar not 9 million we ar more than 40 million. Most population is living in Iran( South Azerbaijan district) bc that was Azerbaijanis who ruled Iran for 1000 years. Qajar dynasty, Safavids were Azerbaijani. But Iran is under control of persians again

as an Azerbaijani, this video gave me goosebumps

Hey iRDM, there is a iraqi contest of choosing the new national anthem, mawtini is wining among the rest since it represents the arab world as a whole, but I think you should take a look on them! They sound pretty much like Kuwait and UAE

Cool video, though the problem with ranking anthems is that you'll always have a bias depending on which precise recording of the anthem you hear, since there's never one single official one, but there's no real way to get around this issue

I never heard of Azerbaijan's anthem before, but I would have to say it would probably be one of my favorites, too. It does resemble the Russian national anthem as well, which is also a favorite. It energizes my Slavic soul (and I'm of Polish descent! lol. Maybe is some of the Cossack ancestry in there). Speaking of Poland, Poland's anthem really, REALLY sounds like a high school pep rally. Some of the Central American anthems (like El Salvador) remind me of "cowboy music" (like the cavlary charge). I get that "Wild West" vibe. The only thing I really disagree with is Japan's anthem, which I actually quite like (although, maybe I'm remembering another version that was a bit faster and higher pitched). Also, I would call Turkey's anthem (could be in my top 10 or 15) "Imperial". It really does sound like a fitting song for a mighty empire. The Ottoman Empire. Italy's anthem sounds like some Tango Dance moves. Great Anthem Dance Battles.

As an anthematologist I really appreciate the video! Of course there are some that I disagree with and some I agree with but I liked hearing your reasoning behind them! (Also I of course appreciate the shout out to my site @4:47 and the use of a term that as far as I know I was the first to use (“Latin American epic anthem”), so that’s always pleasurable to see your creation being used. One thing I would suggest is to compare apples to apples - ie have all instrumental so that vocals aren’t affecting judgement (of course it can’t be the other way as a few don’t have lyrics). I love your love of anthems!

If I may offer my opinion on this, I do have a critique. From the looks of it, you just listened to the versions of the anthems on wikipedia, which from my impressions, are not as good as some of the other versions that exist. Mainly because the wikipedia versions lack vocals a lot of the time. I guarantee that with some of these anthem's vocals, they would be plazed a whole lot higher, like Argentina, South Africa, Portugal, Tunisia, Andorra, Bulgaria, Greece, Cameroon, or Georgia. If you see this, I would recommend searching on RU-vid for the vocal versions of these anthems, because even from just the examples I've listed, I agree that the wikipedia versions are in many cases nowhere near as good as the vocal versions.

Brazilian anthem is in fact a march from an opera by Franz Liszt, Don Sanche or Le Chateau d'Amour

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I'm from Barbados, we're rarely ever mentioned in videos like this. Out of pure curiosity did you listen to an instrumental version of our anthem or one with lyrics?

I find funny how you mentioned a dude skipping across battlefields in both 6 and 4 position, and the lyrics of the Italian national anthem at number 5 that are actually written by a dude in a trench that has not been mentioned.

That was so awesome dude. Thanks for it:)

I am from Azerbaijan and yes...we have pretty cool anthem.

I respect the time you put into this, well done.

When spains anthem had iyrics during Francisco Francos rule it was even better cause it was catchy af speaking of vocals half of the bad anthems have vocals that make them passable. Also idk what version of the north yemen you found but it just sounds like the average arab anthem just with very shittily recorded vocals

A anthem without a vocals isn’t a anthem Wikipedia has instrumental only anthems if you heard the actual lyrics you would rate things differently

so Jordan's anthem is shit because it's short and repetitive but San Marino's is great because it's short and repetitive?

just wait until he finds all the anthems with vocals

Wanna know what would be the best mashup? The French anthem lyrics sung in the Azerbaijani anthem melody

Respectable opinions you have there, I somehow managed to find your video just by searching 'best national anthems' and after watching it, I must say that it is somehow educational and enjoyable to watch though some parts of the video do make me feel triggered. Overall great video and the dislikers sure needs to respect people opinions!

How is it possible that Indian National anthem is in D while that of Bangladesh is in B while both were written by the same person Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel prize winner). I really like both. You know what, sometimes even not so famous RU-vidrs make good videos. I wonder how many of such lesser known awesome RU-vidrs are out their in our cyber Cosmos.

holy shit dont ever rank again

There are versions of Himni i Flamirut that are older and better than the wikipedia recording!

Thought that #16 was Indonesia, but actually it is Monaco. Where is Indonesia then? So many red and white combination flags in my small screen...

wait until he discovers azerbaijan ssr anthem

Fun fact: your B Tier Bangladesh and D Tier Indian anthem was written by the same guy.

Netherlands isn’t called William. Idk why its translated but its called Wilhelmus. Its based on the name of the leader who lead the revolution against spain. I can get why it might seem weird to people who don’t know our history. But for dutch people it makes sense

6:55 Cyprus and Greece have the same anthem because they're both Greek nations, two states, one people. The Hymn to Liberty is a pieace of Classical Music, composed in 1823, during the Greek revolution, in the British owned Ionian Islands. It is the longest national anthem in the word, at 158 verses, all of them rhyming. It's a great anthem!

as an Azerbaijani I'm honored that people like our anthem. Uzeyir Hajibeyov is one of the greatest composers of his time. Of course, we should not forget Ahmad Javad who has a great role in our anthem.

Proud of my country's anthem 🇬🇷 longest in the world standing tall at 55 minutes long!

7:30 Slovak Symphony Orchestra's version of the Ethiopian anthem is so much better than Navy Band's (which is what that website you used, uses for their list of national anthems). It's amazing

I loved your Italy ranking

As an Azəri, I can assure you that our anthem is compensation for everything else, pretty much.

I'm from Costa Rica, and the thing I like when the anthem plays is the lyirics

South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia have the same anthem... yet didn't go in 'G' Tier...?

Nice video, man. You should listen the Uruguayan national anthem from "el Sodre", they're the best orchestra in Uruguay and it's the best version of the song. After listening to that i think you will reconsider that first place 😂😂😂 Greetings from Uruguay !!!!

Most of your rankings were pretty in accord with mine, but seriously, canada’s anthem is like the most generic anthem, its on the same level of australia or the Uk.

I think Turkey,Azerbaijan and Mongolia anthems are really goood

i was disappointed to see my countries anthem get so low on other rankings who were made by people most likely who dont know wtf music is glad to see it in S tier this made my day also great vid :)

Salvadoran here. I know we have a kick-ass anthem, but didn't expected somebody to put it that high on a list. :)

wow, this is the first good ranking of anthems that i see. i agree and understand with many things. uruguay and chile are amazing and always underrated by other lists, the same for morocco and el salvador. amazing list, congratulations. i made something close to this ranking in another channel (it's the same name of that account i'm using now lol). greetings from brazil, i loved this ranking!

So Scotland’s national anthem doesn’t count anymore, we sing it when we play other teams including the rest of the UK, we NEVER sing god save the Queen if we don’t have to. I assure you Scotlands should be on there

Have you listened to the anthems of some of the partially recognized countries like South Ossetia, Artsakh, or Somaliland?

I come back to this video every now and then because it’s so good

34:36 the reflection, what I subscribed for

So sad to see Argentina’s anthem in D tier. Lots of sources claim it to be one of the best. Maybe you listened a version with the new vocals, which are awful. Anyway, cool video

Ok great video but just one question: how could you not put Benin in at least A tier? It's gotta be one of the most underrated anthems in history!

im pretty sure the israeli anthem has lyrics in the more oficial version.

Well, the best anthem is from your motherland. Each national anthem carries its own national memory, for us, just listen.

The Turkish anthem has got to be the best one for me. Not only does it give off an evil and dramatic vibe, but the melodies just draw me in and impress me every time. (I also really adore Italy’s anthem. That’s probably where I’m the closest to being biased because I am also of Italian descent lol.)

Curious about why you put Switzerland in G tier, it perfectly represents the country to me.

France’s anthem has some of the best lyrics of any anthem tbh. Idk if you’re only basing it on the music though

now drive through Glendale with the Chadbayjani Anthem.

this needs more than 400 views bruh edit: probably because of _k i r i b a t i_

By the way there's an Azeri restaurant in New York City (named King Solomon). I am guessing it is easier to get to than Azerbijan!

Just finished listening to all the national anthems myself, glad to see that most of the ones I like are on the top of this tier list 😄 also, bro rated the SADR's anthem (at least I think that's the SADR flag at the bottom of C tier at 40:40) but not Palestine's 💀

bruh i really liked the anthem for jordan its short and sweet

HaTikvah - It's about yearning and having hope. We usually play it on Yam HaShoah (Memorial Day for Victims of the Holocaust) and Yom HaziKaron (Memorial Day for Victims of Terror and Fallen Soldiers) or when there's been a terror attack. Some will sing it on Yom Ha'atzmaut, which is independence day, which is why it is about having land that they have yearned for and that they have continued to hope for. (Ode lo avdah tikvatenu // Hatikvah bat shnot alpayim - Our hope is not lost // Our hope of two thousand years) Either way, very good list as most do just look over the national anthem of the Israelis.

you have no idea how much I appreciate this video dude Before watching, my favorite anthems to listen to were Azerbaijan, Nepal, Israel, Russia and Monaco (no particular order); now I know a few more. I also just love how you're not afraid to roast whoever you want lol, very genuine content. Laughed out loud at the North Yemen bit, and from the F tier some notable ones to me were Jordan's for sounding like a poor cutscene soundtrack, Eswatini which is confused in its silly way, and The Gambia's for being almost as catchy as the Nokia ringtone.

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