Aboutthis site
longestsongever.com answers one question properly, then gives you something long to listen to.
The facts
Every record on this site comes from a source linked next to it, checked in October 2026. Records change. If Guinness lists a new holder, the page gets updated.
- Guinness World Records: Longest officially released song
- The Times of India, May 2023: “Ramcharitmanas by BHU faculty makes it to Guinness”
- Wikipedia: The Rise and Fall of Bossanova
- Internet Archive: The Rise and Fall of Bossanova (A 13:23:32 Song)
- Wikipedia: 7 Skies H3
- Guinness World Records: Longest song to reach No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100
- Billboard, Nov 2021: “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)” tops the Hot 100
- Wikipedia: As Slow as Possible (Organ²/ASLSP)
- Longplayer: Overview
The music
Purrple Cat is a solo lofi project that started in December 2018. Produced 500+ songs with 500+ million streams and 425K followers. Featured in Disney, League of Legends & Rocket League.
The endless player holds 366 songs: every Purrple Cat Self Release from 36 releases, from Up All Night (2018) to Endless Forest (2026). It plays them in release order, so it adds up to 17 h 0 min 9 s, measured from the real length of every track. Every Purrple Cat song back to back runs 23 h 26 min 34 s, and that’s the figure the records are compared with. Most of the songs are instrumental lofi, though a few, like the Memories EP and Please Hold Me, have vocals.
Using it in videos and streams
Purrple Cat Self Releases are free under CC BY 4.0 on social media and livestreams, with credit. Put this in your description:
Music by Purrple Cat
- Never re-upload the music to music streaming services (Spotify, Apple Music and so on), and don’t release remixes, samples or covers of it there.
- Never register it in Content ID. Purrple Cat Self Releases are never in Content ID, so videos stay claim-free.
- Downloads are MP3s, one per song, from the tracklist.
- No AI: every song is made by Purrple Cat.
Questions
- What is the longest song ever?
- According to Guinness World Records, the longest officially released song is Shri Ramcharitmanas by Dr Jagadeesh Pillai: 138 h 41 min 20 s (5 days 18 h 41 min 20 s), achieved in Varanasi, India, on 12 April 2023.
- What was the longest song before that?
- Guinness previously listed a 115-hour-45-minute song by Mark Christopher Lee and The Pocket Gods (1 December 2021). Before that, P C III’s The Rise and Fall of Bossanova (13:23:32, released 1 November 2016) held the record from 2016 to 2020.
- What is the longest song to reach No. 1?
- Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version)”, at 10 min 13 s, topped the Billboard Hot 100 on 27 November 2021. It beat Don McLean’s 8 min 37 s “American Pie”.
- Is there a song that is still playing?
- Yes. John Cage’s Organ²/ASLSP has been playing on an organ in Halberstadt, Germany since 5 September 2001 and is scheduled to end on 5 September 2640. Longplayer, a 1,000-year composition by Jem Finer, has been playing since 1 January 2000.
- How long would it take to listen to every Purrple Cat song?
- Every Purrple Cat song, played back to back, adds up to 23 h 26 min 34 s. The endless player on this page plays all 366 Self Release songs (17 h 0 min 9 s) in release order, starting with Up All Night (2018), or shuffled.
- Can I use the music in my videos?
- Yes. Purrple Cat Self Releases are free under CC BY 4.0 on social media and livestreams with the credit “Music by Purrple Cat”. Never re-upload them to music streaming services and never register them in Content ID.
- Who is Purrple Cat?
- Purrple Cat is a solo lofi project that started in December 2018. Produced 500+ songs with 500+ million streams and 425K followers. Featured in Disney, League of Legends & Rocket League.
