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
- Guinness World Records, longest officially released song (archived 2015)
- Guinness World Records, longest officially released song (archived mid-2015)
- Guinness World Records, longest officially released song (archived 2016)
- Guinness World Records, longest officially released song (archived mid-2021)
- Guinness World Records, longest officially released song (archived Nov 2021)
- Grunge: This is the longest song ever recorded
- Long Island Herald: Freeport “Gangsta Rabbi” Steve Lieberman breaks Guinness record
- Comatonse Recordings: Soulnessless
- Wikipedia: 9 Beet Stretch
- Guinness World Records: Longest officially released instrumental
- Wikipedia: Sleep (Max Richter album)
- Deutsche Grammophon: Max Richter, Sleep (8-hour version)
- Wikipedia: Strobo Trip
- Wikipedia: The Well-Tuned Piano
- Wikipedia: Glitch Princess
- World Record Academy: Longest pop song, Apparente Libertà
- Wikipedia: Chris Butler (musician)
- Wikipedia: Dopesmoker
- Guinness World Records: Longest music video
- Billboard: Twenty One Pilots’ “Level of Concern” sets a Guinness World Record
- Wikipedia: Vexations
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 all 510 Purrple Cat songs from 107 releases, from Up All Night (2018) to Endless Forest (2026): the 366 Self Releases plus 144 songs from label albums (Distant Worlds, Adventure Island, Far from Home, Sweet Dreams), compilations, collabs and features. It plays them in release order, so it adds up to 23 h 36 min 24 s, measured from the real length of every track. 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.
- Only the Self Releases are CC BY 4.0. Songs from label releases, compilations and other artists’ releases are marked “Listen only” in the tracklist. They’re here for listening, and the licence above doesn’t cover them.
- 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 has listed seven holders before it. In order: Zwei Jahre by Phrasenmäher (1:30:10, 10 January 2014); The Scriptures by the Love Hope Strength Foundation (1:43:40, 24 October 2014); In The Garden by P C III (3:01:50, 16 August 2015); P C III’s The Rise and Fall of Bossanova (13:23:32, 1 November 2016), which held it until 2020; The Noise Militia (#38/76) by Steve Lieberman (35:41:09, 3 December 2020); Symphony of the Crown by Earthena (48:39:35, 1 October 2021); and the 115-hour-45-minute song by Mark Christopher Lee and The Pocket Gods (1 December 2021).
- 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 36 min 24 s. The endless player on this page plays all 510 of them in release order, starting with Up All Night (2018), or shuffled.
- Can I use the music in my videos?
- Yes, the Self Releases. 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. Songs from label releases, compilations and other artists’ releases are here to listen to only. They aren’t Self Releases, so CC BY 4.0 doesn’t cover them.
- 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.
