Discover the Era That Changed It All.
POPera is a live, nationwide musical happening — a 4K spectacle launching 2028 — that reunites a generation through the music it grew up on. Pop, rock, soul, disco, played loud, the way it was meant to be heard. ✌️
Nostalgia doesn’t just knock — it bursts through the door with a melody.
Back when vinyl wasn’t vintage and the soundtrack of life was as rich and diverse as the times themselves. POPera revives the golden age of pop — a tribute, and a passage back to the days that still resonate.
Pop Hits Have an Emotional Tie to One’s Life. Turn the Beat Around. ✌️
“Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.”— Stevie Wonder
A Generation Reaches for the Good Old Days
Eleven thousand Americans turn 65 every day. As a whole generation looks back, nothing carries them there like the songs that scored their lives — the first dance, the long drive, the summer that changed everything.
Five-Star Favorites
A taste of the collection — the records we rated highest. Press play, or browse all 76 in the Gallery.
Reuniting a Divided Nation
“OK, Boomer” cuts both ways. POPera answers it the way a generation that lived through 1968 knows how — with the songs everyone still sings. The music that scored their lives can still bring a divided room to its feet, all facing the same direction.
POPera is the brainchild of Michael Tchong — serial entrepreneur, trendwatcher, and adjunct professor of innovation at the University of San Francisco. If you share his passion for this era, reach out. More at ubertrends.com.
A Love Story That Heads West
Four Boomers. A New Yorker who lights out for California. The music revolution of the ’60s and ’70s, and the spirit of the Love-Ins — peace, love, unity. POPera tells their story in 4K, from rock to disco to soul, set to the records that defined a generation.
The Man Who Kept the Charts
Every peak position, debut date and chart run on POPera traces back to one tireless source. When Billboard launched the Hot 100 in 1958, a young Wisconsin record collector named Joel Whitburn began logging every hit on index cards — work that grew into Record Research and The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits.
Joel Whitburn (1939–2022) is gone, but the charts he chronicled play on. I had the pleasure of corresponding with him, and POPera stands on his life’s work. The numbers are his; the memories are ours to keep.
— Michael
