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.

Dated record7 questions · 124,517 recorded answers

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
  • japanese contemporary classicalDeep Cut85points
  • japanese dance popDeep Cut85points
  • japanese death metalDeep Cut85points
  • japanese dream popDeep Cut85points
  • japanese drillDeep Cut85points
  • japanese dubDeep Cut85points
  • Japanese EDMDeep Cut85points
  • japanese electronicDeep Cut85points
  • japanese electropopDeep Cut85points
  • japanese emoDeep Cut85points
  • japanese experimentalDeep Cut85points
  • japanese folkDeep Cut85points
  • japanese garage rockDeep Cut85points
  • japanese girl punkDeep Cut85points
  • japanese guitarDeep Cut85points
  • japanese hardcoreDeep Cut85points
  • japanese heavy metalDeep Cut85points
  • japanese houseDeep Cut85points
  • japanese hyperpopDeep Cut85points
  • Japanese IDMDeep Cut85points
  • japanese indie folkDeep Cut85points
  • japanese indie popDeep Cut85points
  • japanese indie rockDeep Cut85points
  • japanese instrumentalDeep Cut85points
  • japanese jazzDeep Cut85points
  • japanese jazz fusionDeep Cut85points
  • japanese jazztronicaDeep Cut85points
  • japanese math rockDeep Cut85points
  • japanese melodic hardcoreDeep Cut85points
  • japanese melodic punkDeep Cut85points
  • japanese metalcoreDeep Cut85points
  • japanese new waveDeep Cut85points
  • japanese old school hip hopDeep Cut85points
  • japanese orchestraDeep Cut85points
  • japanese pianoDeep Cut85points
  • japanese pop punkDeep Cut85points
  • japanese pop rapDeep Cut85points
  • japanese post-hardcoreDeep Cut85points
  • japanese post-punkDeep Cut85points
  • japanese post-rockDeep Cut85points
  • japanese power metalDeep Cut85points
  • japanese progDeep Cut85points
  • japanese progressive houseDeep Cut85points
  • japanese psychedelicDeep Cut85points
  • japanese psychedelic rockDeep Cut85points
  • japanese punk rockDeep Cut85points
  • japanese r&bDeep Cut85points
  • japanese rockabillyDeep Cut85points
  • japanese screamoDeep Cut85points
  • japanese shoegazeDeep 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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