Change log
What changed for players, newest first
25 September 2026 — The day's stats compare scores
The line comparing you with everyone else used to average the rarity of the answers you locked, which left out the ones you missed: seven blanks and one rare answer beat a day of seven solid ones. It compares scores now, and a blank costs the seventh of the record it always cost.
24 September 2026 — Songs and albums ranked by what people listen to
Until now, how rare a song or album counted as was worked out mostly from how many times it had been pressed — how many CDs, records and reissues exist of it. That rewards anything that kept turning up on compilations, and it undersells a song everybody streams but nobody pressed.
Albumillion now knows how much each of 225,000 artists' songs and albums are actually listened to, and uses that instead, falling back to pressings where nobody has the figures.
- Answers are ranked more like you would rank them. "Name a song by Radiohead" opens with Creep, Karma Police and No Surprises. Before, the obvious end of a question could be whatever had been reissued most.
- About 900 questions exist that could not before, among them tracks on AM, In Rainbows and Currents. A question needs two answers the game considers well known, and famous album tracks were failing that test on a technicality: they are streamed constantly and pressed as singles rarely.
- There are 7,711 questions now, up from 6,776.
Percentages on questions you have already played may have moved, since the whole scale shifted. Your past scores are untouched.
21 September 2026 — First day fixes
- The day waits for you. Opening Albumillion used to start the first question, and its timer, before you had read anything. Now there is a button, and nothing is timed until you press it.
- After a round, each question shows its five commonest answers, with the rarest named beside them. It used to show one answer from each rarity band, which explained the scoring and reminded you of nothing. The point is the "oh yeah, I forgot about that".
- Country questions were including black metal. The game works out what belongs to a genre partly from the names of its subgenres, and "Western classical" was being read as a kind of country and western - so country quietly included medieval and classical music, and any band tagged with those. Country questions from tomorrow are country only; today's is already being played and is left alone.
- A day that did not reach the game fully now repairs itself. If a question never made it to us - a bad connection at the wrong moment, or a browser that lost track of itself - the game used to say you had not finished the day and would not open a practice round. It now plays the question that went missing, keeps the answers you already gave, and says what it is doing.
21 September 2026 — Albumillion opens
Seven music questions a day, the same seven for everyone, changing at midnight in New York. Name as many answers as you can before each timer runs out. A wrong guess costs nothing; the rarer your answer, the more it is worth, and an answer almost nobody finds is Once In Albumillion.
- The daily is free and needs no account. Your streak and your past days are kept by your browser.
- Practice rounds open once you have finished the day's seven: seven more questions, never ones you have played and never the coming week's dailies, as many rounds as you like.
- The day's stats start as soon as anyone plays: how many people have played and how obscure everyone's answers have been. Once fifteen have finished, the rest arrives - how you did against the day's median, the rarest answer anyone found, and which round was hardest.
- Answers come from MusicBrainz, Wikipedia's list of music genres, and Last.fm listening figures. There are around 6,800 questions.
- A guess the game did not recognise is checked afterwards. If it turns out to be a real answer it is added, and the game tells you so the next time you visit, though your score stays as it was.
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