Origins

Whatlist.info is created by the members of the board of the Whatlist. 2019, all rights reserved. The lyrics in the songs provided do not neccesarily reflect the personal views of the authors.

Sources & Methods

The whatlist would not be possible without valuable resources used for compiling this extensive list.

Karaoke Songbooks

Songs where extracted from numerous songbooks used in Karaoke bars all around the world.

Karafun Catalogue The first songbook that made it into our list. Also offered visual inspiration for the styling of this website.
Excesss songbooks The most resourceful songbook we have used. Very extensive, over 50 000 titles!
karaokesongbook.net HTML-based songbook. Greatest thing about it is that it is sorted alphabetically, however remarkably starting with "#" as it's first letter.
Thai Princess songbook The songbook of Thai Princess karaoke bar in The Hague. Original inspiration for the whatlist.
songbookslive.com/ HTML-based. Extensive database with different songbooks that can be individually loaded. Precise functionality unclear.
Karaoke Songbook, three columns Unknown author. PDF found on the internet.

Practical Sources

Using `tabula-extractor` to liberate tables from their PDF imprisonment Gorgeous short-film explaining how to turn static PDFs into an editable csv-file. And that without using a single video file! Essential for our hunt on songbooks.