What is Year To Beat?
Year To Beat is a daily music quiz about release years. Instead of naming a track, you watch and listen to a music video and enter the year you think it came out. A daily set contains five tracks shared by all players.
How to play Year To Beat
- Start Today's Challenge and enable audio so you can use both the music and the video.
- Listen to the track and look for clues to its era.
- Enter the four-digit release year and submit your estimate.
- Compare your guess with the revealed year, then continue to the next track.
- Complete all five tracks and review the total score and sharing options.
An exact year is worth 1,000 points, for a maximum of 5,000 across the daily set. Scores decrease as your estimate moves further from the correct year. The current daily challenge is available without creating an account; archive and account features have their own access conditions.
How to estimate a song's year
Start broad. Decide whether the production, instruments and video styling suggest an earlier or later period, then narrow from a decade to a few plausible years. A remembered album, tour or radio phase may be more useful than trying to recognize the exact video shoot.
Cross-check visual and audio clues. Deliberately retro styling can mislead, while production choices may suggest a different period. Conversely, an older song can appear in a newer recording or remix. Answer the release-year question for the version the game presents.
For example, if you place a track somewhere between two albums you remember, use that interval as a starting point. Do not treat the date when you personally discovered the song as its release date. Neither this method nor the cover supplies today's answers.
Audio playback and repeat visits
The game uses embedded YouTube videos. If a video cannot play in your browser or region, the interface may offer an external playback link or a skip option; follow the message shown for that track. Skipping can affect the score.
Year To Beat suits players who remember musical eras even when titles or artist names are elusive. A close miss still gives useful feedback, so compare your reasoning with the revealed year before moving on.