Animal Crossing — Relaxing Music with Rain Sounds

Twelve and a half million plays, which makes this the most-watched video in the whole catalogue here. Animal Crossing uses a structure no other series bothers with: the game plays a different arrangement every hour of the real day, so the 3 a.m. track exists specifically for people who are awake at 3 a.m. Kazumi Totaka has been writing that rotation since the N64 original in 2001. miffynoa posted this mix in February 2021, deep into the New Horizons boom.

Putting rain on top is nearly cheating — the hourly themes are already built to be half-heard while you do something else, and the rain conveniently covers the loop points. The comment section underneath is a decent read on its own, mostly people who leave it on to draw or to sleep. One caveat worth knowing: Nintendo removes uploads like this without much warning, so if the video ever stops loading, that is why.