Name a music genre (listed as a genre on Spotify)

November 2, 2026 · Daily Dive #110

Explore 6,432 recorded answers and their points for question 7 on November 2, 2026.

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6,432 recorded names on November 2, 2026, 5,964 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

A catalogue this size rewards sheer breadth of recall: the platform files thousands of micro-labels, so the winning move is volume of plausible terminology rather than one clever pick. It scores when the phrase exists as a genre tag in the platform's own catalogue, however narrow or obscure; it fails if it names a performer, one recording, or a label you invented.

6,432 recorded answers5,964 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut5,96385 pts
  • Rare42960 pts
  • Schooler3230 pts
  • Plankton710 pts
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Recorded answers

6,432 recorded answers

How to approach it

Treat the task as a timed recall sprint, not a hunt for one perfect label. Spend a minute noting every genre term you have ever seen attached to a record, from the broadest umbrella phrases down to the strangest compound you can picture, and hold back nothing at this stage. Prune afterwards, keeping only entries you can imagine sitting in the platform's catalogue. The productive route is combinatorial: take one style stem you trust and attach a region, a period, a format or an instrument, then judge which pairings read like genuine tags. Do not chase a brilliant rarity. The field is so wide and the scoring so flat that your first instinct carries as much weight as your twentieth guess, so move fast.

Get a hint

Start with scale: the catalogue holds thousands of tags, so the skill being tested is recall under time pressure. Ask how many genre terms you could list in a minute without repeating yourself.

A little more

Study how most tags are built: a style root fused with a place, a decade, a tempo figure, a technology or an instrument. Once that pattern is visible, one remembered term turns into a dozen variants.

One step further

Then push toward the far edge of the list: hyphenated micro-labels, single descriptors that barely register as genres, and tags lifted wholesale from regional scenes on other continents.

Reveal answers 6,432
  • BGMDeep Cut85points
  • bhajanDeep Cut85points
  • bhojiwoodDeep Cut85points
  • bhojpuri folkDeep Cut85points
  • bhojpuri popDeep Cut85points
  • bhutanese popDeep Cut85points
  • bibleDeep Cut85points
  • big roomDeep Cut85points
  • bikutsiDeep Cut85points
  • binauralDeep Cut85points
  • birdsongDeep Cut85points
  • birmingham grimeDeep Cut85points
  • birmingham hip hopDeep Cut85points
  • birmingham indieDeep Cut85points
  • birmingham metalDeep Cut85points
  • birthdayDeep Cut85points
  • bisaya indieDeep Cut85points
  • bisaya rapDeep Cut85points
  • bisaya worshipDeep Cut85points
  • bisrockDeep Cut85points
  • bitpopDeep Cut85points
  • black 'n' rollDeep Cut85points
  • black americanaDeep Cut85points
  • black comedyDeep Cut85points
  • black deathDeep Cut85points
  • black metal argentinoDeep Cut85points
  • black noiseDeep Cut85points
  • black punkDeep Cut85points
  • black sludgeDeep Cut85points
  • black speed metalDeep Cut85points
  • black thrashDeep Cut85points
  • blackened crustDeep Cut85points
  • blackened deathcoreDeep Cut85points
  • blackened hardcoreDeep Cut85points
  • blackened screamoDeep Cut85points
  • blackgazeDeep Cut85points
  • blaskapelleDeep Cut85points
  • blasmusikDeep Cut85points
  • bleakgazeDeep Cut85points
  • bleep technoDeep Cut85points
  • blocoDeep Cut85points
  • bluegrass fiddleDeep Cut85points
  • bluegrass gospelDeep Cut85points
  • blues bandDeep Cut85points
  • blues latinoamericanoDeep Cut85points
  • blues mexicanoDeep Cut85points
  • blues-rock guitarDeep Cut85points
  • bmoreDeep Cut85points
  • bodo popDeep Cut85points
  • boeremusiekDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

The numbers tell a flattening story. Out of 6,431 recorded answers, 6,392 scored, and 5,962 of those sat on the same 85 points, one broad band that swallowed everything from bare one-word abstractions such as abstract to hyper-local hyphenates such as adelaide indie and technical oddities such as 8D and 432hz. Only 429 fell to 60, presumably entries the grader read as a weaker fit: a near miss, a variant spelling, or something it would not treat as a genre tag. Exactly one response, stomp and holler, reached 100. That solitary case carries the lesson. Normally the rarest legitimate pick pays best, since fewer players share the pool, but here the catalogue is so vast that rarity stopped carrying information. Obscurity bought nothing: accordion earned the same 85 as afro house angolano. Depth of recall was rewarded only up to the point of being right, and not a single point further.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 2 Nov, 14:30 UTC

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