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    [OC] Die 14 Songs, bei denen die Spieler am meisten falsch liegen, bei 340.000 Vermutungen in einem Online-Ratespiel zum Musikjahr im Hitster-Stil

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    1. Take_My_Money on

      This is from a dataset I’ve been collecting on [yeartobeat.com](http://yeartobeat.com), a daily online music year-guessing game (closest free analog to the board game Hitster). Each day a global pool of players watch 5 music videos and guess the release year.

      Across 340,215 completed guesses on 295 songs (today’s challenge excluded), a clear bidirectional drift emerges:

      OLD songs get pulled forward. The Pixies released „Where Is My Mind?“ in 1988, but the median player guess across 1,125 attempts is 1995. The song predates Fight Club (1999, where many people first encountered it) by 11 years.

      RECENT songs get pushed backward. The strongest backward drift belongs to „Love Generation“ by Bob Sinclar: released 2005, consensus at 2000.

      The full dataset is live and grows daily. You can contribute at [yeartobeat.com](http://yeartobeat.com)

      Tools: PostgreSQL, Python 3.13, Matplotlib.

    2. samuelazers on

      Idk if youre taking feedback but, instead of starting the song at the very start, maybe should start near the more iconic hooks. Generally a lot of time waste between rounds which made me close the tab. Which is a shame because i love the concept but UX needs work.

    3. joanmave on

      I heard the Pixies for the first time in 1999, even back then they sounded fresh. It surprised me that song was from the 80s. They basically created the sound of the 90s in the 80s. They single-handedly woke me up to discover music that was not just what it was sounding on the school yard.

    4. all-night on

      I’ve been playing this game almost daily since the previous time you made a post about it on this sub and I absolutely suck at it lol. I’m in like 90th percentile most of the time. Probably because most songs used were made before I was born or when I was barely conscious (I’m 30). I do enjoy it a lot though

    6. YoRt3m on

      For going so many decades back, I don’t think it’s such a big deal thinking a song is +-3 years difference than what it’s really is. there’s a holiday song I thought existed my entire life but only a few years ago I found out it was released in 2011. THAT’S a data I would like to see.

    7. boofoodoo on

      Lots of Violent Femmes would fit the bill. Blister In The Sun feels very 90s

    8. vttale on

      What kind of surprises me is apparently how relatively accurate people are. It seems kind of remarkable that #7 on the older list is only two years off

    9. borb54 on

      I’m a big fan of the game. Nice work. I’m surprised that Here I Go Again by Whitesnake was not on a bad miss list. Although the song was originally released in 1982 (I didn’t know that!), the version of the song and video used in the game was 100% from 1987. But the answer was still given as 1982. What’s up with that?

    11. erkjhnsn on

      Not sure if you have any beach boys in there, but it blew my mind that Kokomo came out in 88. I thought it was from the 60s!

    12. moldy_walrus on

      For everyone surprised about how overall accurate the guesses are/assuming a lot of people are cheating – these numbers are averages. The average guess might very well be 5+ years off in either direction, but those will average each other out. As a collective we’re really good at guessing things.

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