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
  • musica queretanaDeep Cut85points
  • musica quintanarroenseDeep Cut85points
  • musica rapa nuiDeep Cut85points
  • musica rondonienseDeep Cut85points
  • musica roraimenseDeep Cut85points
  • musica sammarineseDeep Cut85points
  • musica santomenseDeep Cut85points
  • musica sardaDeep Cut85points
  • musica sergipanaDeep Cut85points
  • musica sinaloenseDeep Cut85points
  • musica sinfonicaDeep Cut85points
  • musica sonorenseDeep Cut85points
  • musica sudcalifornianaDeep Cut85points
  • musica sul-mato-grossenseDeep Cut85points
  • musica tabasquenaDeep Cut85points
  • musica tamaulipecaDeep Cut85points
  • musica timor-lesteDeep Cut85points
  • musica tlaxcaltecaDeep Cut85points
  • musica tradicional cubanaDeep Cut85points
  • musica tradicional dominicanaDeep Cut85points
  • musica triste brasileiraDeep Cut85points
  • musica tropical guatemaltecaDeep Cut85points
  • musica urbana oaxaquenaDeep Cut85points
  • musica valencianaDeep Cut85points
  • musica wixarikaDeep Cut85points
  • musica yucatecaDeep Cut85points
  • musical advocacyDeep Cut85points
  • Músicas espíritasDeep Cut85points
  • musiikkia lapistaDeep Cut85points
  • musiikkia lapsilleDeep Cut85points
  • musik anak-anakDeep Cut85points
  • musikkorpsDeep Cut85points
  • musiqi-ye zananDeep Cut85points
  • musique acadienneDeep Cut85points
  • musique alsacienneDeep Cut85points
  • musique ancienneDeep Cut85points
  • musique centrafricaineDeep Cut85points
  • musique comorienneDeep Cut85points
  • musique concreteDeep Cut85points
  • musique guadeloupeDeep Cut85points
  • musique mahoraiseDeep Cut85points
  • musique mandingueDeep Cut85points
  • musique mariage algerienDeep Cut85points
  • musique mauritanienneDeep Cut85points
  • musique militaireDeep Cut85points
  • musique nigerienneDeep Cut85points
  • musique peuleDeep Cut85points
  • musique pour enfant quebecoisDeep Cut85points
  • musique pour enfantsDeep Cut85points
  • musique soninkeDeep 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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