Ranking ALL 96 Hourly Soundtracks in Animal Crossing!

[@chelseamarsden8424]

The first time I played until 3:00 in ACNH I was like “aaaaand that’s my sign to go to bed.”

[@Seth_689]

Underrated video although think ACNH was done a bit dirty

[@Soandnb]

Many of the NH tracks would be greatly improved if they didn't use that grating synth. ACNH 2PM perfectly exemplifies how awful its inclusion in.

[@crimsonhawk52]

brother you have never felt the irl 3pm sleepiness and it shows

[@Soandnb]

New Leaf had 14 tracks which did not feature the game's main theme motif in them (Specifically AM: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 10, 11... and PM: 12, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11), and even of the tracks that DO have the motif, many of them are rather subtle (12AM, 2PM, and I guess 1PM). I think it's part of the reason why its sountrack is so memorable. New Horizons' hourly soundtrack, by contrast, has the main theme in every single track I believe, and if I recall correctly, it's always a substantial part of the song.

[@hunteralderman3050]

I think New Leaf 5AM is kinda underrated! The backwards stuff is a little odd but I think it fits the distorted and empty hour that is 5AM. If you're awake at 5AM you're either up too late or too early.

[@Catboy_Disaster]

Apologies if I'm off by a couple seconds. I sped up the video playback to make this 0:00 intro *RANKINGS* 0:47 - 3 AM New Horizons #96 1:25 - 9 PM New Horizons #95 1:54 - 12 AM New Horizons #94 2:16 - 11 PM Gamecube #93 2:31 - 110 PM New Horizons #92 2:50 - 4 AM City Folk # 91 2:59 - 2 PM New Horizons #90 3:23 - 12 AM Gamecube #89 3:39 - 1 PM New Horizons #88 3:53 - 9 PM City Folk #87 4:08 - 1 AM Gamecube #86 4:29 - 10 AM City Folk #85 4:50 - 3 PM New Horizons #84 5:07 - 8 PM New Horizons #83 5:34 - 10 PM - New Horizons #82 5:49 - 3 PM City Folk #81 6:13 - 5 AM New Leaf #80 6:43 - 1 AM New Horizons #79 7:08 - 11 PM City Folk #78 7:20 - 9 AM New Horizons #77 7:36 - 3 AM Gamecube #76 8:09 - 4 AM Gamecube #75 8:29 - 12 AM New Leaf #74 8:57 - 9 AM Gamecube #73 9:13 - 12 AM City Folk #72 9:30 - 7 PM New Horizons #71 9:55 - 5 AM City Folk #70 10:11 - 6 AM New Horizons #69 (nice) 10:30 - 3 AM New Leaf #68 10:44 - 6 AM New Leaf #67 11:23 - 11 AM Gamecube #66 11:38 - 8 PM City Folk #65 11:56 - 10 PM City Folk #64 12:07 - 11 AM New Leaf #63 12:29 - 10 AM New Horizons #62 12:45 - 5 PM City Folk #61 13:20 - 4 AM New Horizons #60 13:35 - 9 PM New Leaf #59 13:59 - 6 PM New Horizons #58 14:28 - 8 PM Gamecube #57 14:40 - 4 PM Gamecube #56 14:54 - 7 AM City Folk #55 15:06 - 12 PM City Folk #54 15:25 - 4 PM New Horizons #53 15:49 - 7 PM City Folk #52 15:59 - 9 PM Gamecube #51 16:12 - 2 PM City Folk #50 16:23 - 6 PM Gamecube #49 16:37 - 8 AM New Horizons #48 (Halfway point) 16:48 - 12 PM Gamecube #47 17:08 - 11 AM New Horizons #46 17:23 - 7 AM New Horizons #45 17:43 - 1 PM New Leaf #44 18:03 - 3 AM City Folk #43 18:32 - 11 AM City Folk #42 18:43 - 1 AM City Folk #41 19:05 - 2 AM New Horizons #40 19:31 - 5 AM New Horizons #39 19:49 - 10 AM New Leaf #38 20:17 - 9 AM New Leaf #37 20:43 - 4 PM City Folk #36 21:02 - 12 PM New Horizons #35 21:25 - 2 PM Gamecube #34 21:54 - 12 PM New Leaf #33 22:20 - 8 AM Gamecube #32 22:37 - 3 PM New Leaf #31 23:00 - 5 AM Gamecube #30 23:20 - 2 AM Gamecube #29 23:40 - 6 PM New Leaf #28 23:57 - 10 PM Gamecube #27 24:26 - 1 PM City Folk #26 24:41 - 10 AM Gamecube #25 24:54 - 5 PM New horizons #24 25:24 - 6 PM City Folk #23 25:37 - 7 AM Gamecube #22 26:02 - 2 PM New Leaf #21 26:28 - 8 AM City Folk #20 27:02 - 3 PM Gamecube #19 27:27 - 7 PM Gamecube #18 27:45 - 8 PM New Leaf #17 28:18 - 6 AM City Folk #16 28:41 - 10 PM New Leaf #15 29:04 - 9 AM City Folk #14 29:21 - 1 PM Gamecube #13 29:52 - 4 PM New Leaf #12 30:29 - 2 AM New Leaf #11 30:58 - 2 AM City Folk #10 (top 10!) 31:37 - 6 AM Gamecube #9 32:18 - 7 AM New Leaf #8 32:50 - 11 PM New Leaf #7 33:37 - 8 AM New Leaf #6 34:11 - 1 AM New Leaf #5 35:00 - 4 AM New Leaf #4 36:07 - 5 PM New Leaf #3 (Top 3!!) 36:51 - 5 PM Gamecube #2 38:00 - 7 PM New Leaf #1 (Good choice!) *END RANKINGS* 39:02 Outro

[@Ehksoduss]

I honestly shed a little tear when you arrived at number 1. I just recently started playing my town from 2015 again, and since I'm now in Uni and can only play in the evening, this has become the song I connect the most with Animal Crossing. It's absolutely amazing, though I remember liking 8PM a lot more back in the day. I guess times change. 4AM is also just wonderful. It perfectly encapsulates the probably weirdest time of day, where most people who go to bed late already went to sleep and those who wake up early are still sleeping. And lastly, I was surprised how funky the GameCube soundtrack is. Very weird as someone who has only played City Folk, New Leaf and Horizons, but oddly fitting.

[@supere4nitro]

10:00 fun fact about this! Both Wii Sports and ACWW/ACCF’s hourly themes had the same composer: Kazumi Totaka

[@leabriana1223]

I was so hoping 7 pm from NL would be #1 and it was. I love it so much

[@spitzeer]

same fr

[@RoxieRoad]

11pm accf sounds absolutely magical with headphones on

[@charlotteanne6975]

thank you for reminding me that there are simply so many songs to throw ass to in the animal crossing series

[@JaredtheRabbit]

What

[@mimpro]

What

[@nolanwidmer1290]

Underrated video, it makes me really happy to see someone as passionate about the hourly tracks as I am

[@ThatsJustAsh]

Yaknow. Number 1 hits different now. I hopped on ACNL right before the shutdown, and this was what capped off all those years. I’ll never forget that feeling.

[@lilapakroo]

new leaf had the absolute best soundtrack for sure

[@PrincessYayoi2011]

I often hear 3PM Gamecube and City Folk when I get home from school it got SO ANNOYING for me! 12AM New Leaf is actually peaceful 5PM New Horizons gives off 2020 vibes 7AM GameCube is so energetic, I remember saying "Good Morning" to my awoken villagers while vibing to that song on my old GC town. I miss it! 5PM GameCube is such a vibe 5AM New Horizons is just so relaxing I like 9PM Gamecube it's nice

[@violettheory]

This is a good list but 9am gamecube was way too low! It was my favorite, waking up on a Saturday morning and hearing that song greet me, good memories.

[@SuishiYT]

Great video! I love all the little personal anecdotes, they really took me back. Im shocked this video doesn’t have, like, 300k views

[@JJHORIZONS]

I love hearing your stories behind certain soundtracks! But man, that Bones one was just sad .

[@evilfox123]

It took months for me to even realise that ACNH has hourly songs

[@Scoutzman]

I remember hearing the 3 am one a few weeks ago on my island and getting freaked out over the trombone not knowing it was from the track

[@rafaelleair325]

While a lot of new horizons soundtracks are also low on my list, I’d say it’s because they’re not as memorable, but that’s a good thing. If you hear the same song every day, you want it to be more background music than memorable

[@BaTTx]

I KNEW IT WAS GONNA BE 7PM! Anyways the way you kept shitting on my favorite songs and put them in the 90s-80s lol

[@hazeldavis3176]

I only like NH music from 5am-10am. I have insomnia so I play on mute 😅

[@Makithe2nd]

Every rank list agrees ACNH 3AM is the worst

[@Keedisgay]

Tf do you mean this only has 600 views WHAT

[@alinacharleen6768]

Well, NH just does not have that great of a soundtrack, it's one of the things if not the main thing that kept me from playing. I'm feeling sorry for the people that never played any other AC game and haven't experienced the great hourly soundtracks the games have to offer. Especially NL has such a beautiful soundtrack and I will love the 7pm and 8pm music forever. Just reminds me of cozy evenings playing with friends ❤

[@CharlieWilson1987]

Joined during the 2020 new horizon craze. I just got like REALLY into animal crossing and I'm buying a GameCube to and a copy of the first game to see how different the two games are. I'm also buying a copy of New Leaf because I want to play what most consider the 'best' animal crossing game. Can't wait!!

[@CharlieWilson1987]

As someone who entered the franchise from new horizons, im so excited for my birthday this week. Im getting a GameCube and the original animal crossing to go with it! I'm also gonna use my birthday money to get new leaf and my friend is selling me his spare 3ds (I have a 2ds but I want to play it on the original console.

[@shadisnotamused]

How are you enjoying it

[@CharlieWilson1987]

@@shadisnotamused it's been very fun but I'm actually kinda sad right now. My clock gets broken everyday so I have to reset it every time I play. Yesterday I set the clock wrong by a month and when I realised I went forward. All my turnips were gone, my shop had upgraded without me and my favourite villager moved away :(

[@CharlieWilson1987]

Im doing better now! My game is going great and im having a wonderful time 😊

[@IvantheEnigma1]

All of the slowness of these tracks seem to make me want to go to bed earlier in the night (9:34 pm right now as I'm writing).

[@shadisnotamused]

Gamecube and New leaf are the soundtracks that calm me

[@VictimKittens]

4am acnl over 1am acnl you have been damned to death by 1000 cuts

[@OstentatiousGrace]

this is making me realize i dont think ive EVER played new horizons at 8pm OR new leaf at 8am

[@desseler]

3 minutes in and i know we already have veeerry different opinions but i love these types of videos so keep it up

[@KalinaCrossing]

It's hard to beat 1pm City Folk, especially when it's snowing

[@littlepinkcloud7879]

Am I the only person who recognized the nagito Komaeda fireworks? 😅

[@CarmsPinto]

3:00pm ACNH is my favorite hourly song along with 10am and 5pm❤

[@soongtype]

11pm GameCube at 93 is a crime

[@sugasnaps]

Awesome video! I'm really surprised this doesn't have more views

[@TheMagic-les-Bean]

New horizons just fumbled so hard with its soundtrack

[@JohnMagger-fh8vt]

Honestly it did, there's a few I like, but I actually prefer new Leah's even though it's older.

[@hadlymcmuffin]

They went from the best soundtrack in my opinion (New Leaf) to the worst (New Horizons) in just one game

[@nooh7082]

ive always enjoyed 7pm soundtracks specifically idk why

[@feelingmaistreaming7390]

I literally hate every single NH soundtrack, i turn off the volume everytime i play the game

[@2a0z72]

just began to replay new horizons and decided to start fresh and honestly, ive developed much more appreciation for the hourly music than i did when the game was still young. while its definitely the weakest in the series imo, it really just gives me the time to just chill and go fishing or smth! anywho, i love recounting my memories of all the new leaf tracks, they all have such a special connection to me and i can associate every single one with a specific memory, what legendary pieces of music

[@Hydraina]

Before New Horizons came out, I was sooo excited to get a new Animal Crossing soundtrack, these games were known for their fantastic soundtracks and I had high expectations. And dear God did NH's soundtrack suck. It's so irritating! It's definitely a big reason why I avoid that game more than the others. Such a shame...

[@Kyler360]

New Leaf 5 PM stays on top but holy hell I really love 12 PM NH I think it's such an underrated gem

[@IvantheEnigma1]

I haven't played and have not been too big into ACNH as I was with ACNL so most of ACNH songs I just know from JSchlatt's Tiktok videos. I probably should have guess they were related to Animal Crossing.

[@EveUnwind]

Looooove this video, thank you so much for all the nostalgia 🥰

[@genericbushfire3055]

10pm new leaf favourite (probably?) 9pm new leaf being that low is astounding, it's so funky. The excitement when I heard that for the first time because apparently 9pm was an absolutely unheard of time to stay up to 11 year old me I'm mostly just leaving this comment as an excuse to boost your video though haha, criminally under-viewed

[@SomeRandomPuzzlePiece]

I've only played Animal Crossing New Horizons but my favorite is 5 AM :)

[@PrincessYayoi2011]

3AM in Animal Crossing New Horizons sounds so uncomfortable.

[@PoumiRaku]

Its my personal favorite of acnh, it makes me so nostalgique of those older, wackier animal crossing soundrackts 😆

[@PrincessYayoi2011]

@@PoumiRaku I heard it today when I couldn’t sleep and I was like euhhh brother euhhh I was shaking

[@PierLuc111]

Ouch. Best new horizon at number 25 is sad. Choosing 5pm at that... i sense some pure new horizon hate.

[@juditiwi]

Could we please get a closer/more detailed look at the villager houses layout from rank 96? I've been wanting to create a neighbourhood in my island but I've been struggling to find a pattern I like :/ Also, what an amazing video! Sooo much effort and thought put on it

[@arandompersonontheinternet667]

I honestly feel I would've enjoyed New Horizons more if the music was better... I started with City Folk when I was about 5-6 years old, I wasn't really old enough to understand how the game worked until the 3DS came out and I got New Leaf, I might be biased but New Leaf was/still is my favourite gen, somewhat because of the music but also because of the features that weren't really in the other games. 7pm in New Leaf hit different as a kid, after 11pm it's my favourite soundtrack 😭

[@LeonGeht]

Animal crossing city folk (wild wold) and new leaf have the best soundtrack. Animal crossing GameCube have the funniest soundtrack and new horizon is like an island song. I think every soundtrack ist great but animal crossing city folk is general the best

[@kjdidntdoit4046]

Noo the bones story, i have a simular one. One day after leaving my grandmas I opened up my game to find bones had abruptly left my acnl town and had sent me photo, bones had lived in my town for so long and i was really sad he left I ended up crying 😂😭 I had to be 8, but anyways my favorite track would have to be 8 am acnl.

[@bf7391]

How can you have 5 am at #39 😭

[@corinnemoorman3178]

5:20 nagito????

[@wisses1805]

I don‘t know why, but New Horizon hasn’t the best Soundtracks for me 😂

[@brainwormcollector]

Your choice for number 1 is so peak, probably factually correct tbh but my god that number 7 pick,,, what a wonderful opinion LMAO such a lowkey song but probably the piece of vgm that does the easiest job at making me emotional something about hearing all this nostalgic music as you were giving these anecdotes has me in my feelings about this series now cause some of those memories you're talking about with new leaf are such close parallels to ones I had around '04 with GC and it's like damn that's beautiful LOL

[@LeonGeht]

Thanks for this video

[@LeonGeht]

7:10 I disagree this song is so relaxing easily in my top 30 songs from animal crossing

[@ZimaNoMori]

I'm hecka bored, so I'm going to slap my opinion on this. 3:00AM NH: It feels like they're saying "Go to bed bruh." Still a bop 9:00PM NH: Reminds me of the soundtrack to a game called Rec Room I used to play. Nice song though. 12:00AM NH: This just sucks. They really fumbled the bag here. 11:00PM GC: Do you want me to just shut my console off? Sure. 11:00PM NH: Better than the GameCube version, but just feels so bland and slow. 4:00AM CF/LGTTC: This song PERFECTLY captures North Idaho (where I live) during the winter. Doesn't quite fit AC, though. Nice bop. 2:00PM NH: Yeesh. I don't even know what to say here. Really? This is in the game? 12:00AM GC: I just hate this. Nothing else to say. 1:00PM NH: I like this. Happy go lucky type deal. 9:00PM CF/LGTTC: This is the one I'm most familiar with. I like it. It screams "It's late. You should wrap up what you're doing" 1:00AM GC: This is such a bop. I love it. I wish it was earlier in the day, though. 10:00AM CF/LGTTC: I like this, it just gets boring. Ok now I'm done.

[@solan2915]

was that your new leaf world in the footage? its amazing

[@rikustorm13]

New Leaf 4pm is so good

[@JB-bb1bh]

wait, most of new leaf hits like gigachad 5am New horizonor wacky OG AC like cat 1pm? damn.... okey NOW get the NL hype 😂 no lie only rom hack i want for NH/NL is a menu where you can listen to ALL 96+ tracks and choose what time track outta the 4 games you want.

[@ritaprincipe7934]

Naaahhhh, ACNH 2am slays!

[@ПетрДвойнишников]

I like 5PM track from New Leaf the most

[@hildisvini_9622]

All the night time Wild World ✨️🍄 honestly play wild world it's an experience

[@3aziz58]

HOW IS ACNH 5 PM AT 24??????????????????????????????????

[@eniph2953]

Really don’t get the hate on new horizons to be honest. Yes a lot of the songs have a similar vibe but they’re not THAT similar. They fit the island theme of the game imo but obviously it’s my opinion and a lot of players have bias and nostalgia to the older games (very much so)

[@fossfox]

Man I cannot disagree more with your takes on a lot of NH's tracks, they fit the vibe of tropical relaxation so well. 3AM is pretty bad though, no lie

[@yoshixcrossing2355]

Personally I think 2PM in NH is the worst. It’s just so bland imo

[@ARHigdon]

I literally can't handle playing ACNH with the sound on. The music is just...ugh. Not a good look. ACNL, though... Magic.

[@Lilzi_FC]

I’ve heard some people say that they play the New Leaf hourly tracks while having New Horizons on silent. I wish we had the option to pick hourly music from past games.