2026-03-07
What Genres Does Your Music League Group Actually Submit?
Your Music League group has strong opinions about music. Ask them what genres they like and you'll get long, detailed answers. Upload their votes and you'll get a different picture.
The Genre Stats page pulls in genre data from Last.fm and MusicBrainz for every song submitted in your league, then runs the numbers. Here's what it shows.
The top genres chart usually has one dominant genre nobody admits to liking
The first thing you see is a horizontal bar chart ranking the genres that appear most across all submissions. In almost every group, one genre is well ahead of everything else.
It's usually rock. Or pop. Sometimes both.
The interesting part isn't the top — it's positions three through ten. That's where you see what the group actually reaches for when they're not trying to be interesting: lo-fi hip hop, 80s synth pop, classic soul, whatever sub-genre three members are apparently obsessed with. Nobody discussed this, but the pattern is there in the data.
Genre scores vs. genre submissions
This is the more revealing chart. It shows average points per song, grouped by genre — only for genres with at least three songs in your league, so outliers don't distort it.
The genres that get submitted most and the genres that score highest are almost never the same list. Usually something niche — jazz, bossa nova, ambient — scores well above average because when someone submits it, they're committing to a song they really believe in, and the group responds to that. The dominant genre from the top chart often scores near the bottom. That's where everyone buries the lazy picks.
It tells you which genres your group actually gets excited about versus which ones they default to when inspiration runs dry.
The radar charts show who says one thing and votes for another
Select any player from the dropdown and you get two radar charts side by side: their submission genre profile and their voting genre profile. Each point shows what percentage of that player's activity involves that genre.
They rarely match.
Someone who submits indie rock at every opportunity often votes most of their points towards R&B or pop. Someone who claims to hate mainstream music has a voting profile that looks like a pop radio station playlist. The submission radar is who they want to be seen as. The voting radar is what they actually respond to when nobody's framing it as a statement.
The voting radar is the more honest one.
How the genre data is fetched
When you upload your league, Music League Stats queries Last.fm for every song submitted. Last.fm uses community-submitted tags, so coverage is good — most songs get genre data within seconds. For anything Last.fm doesn't have, the system falls back to MusicBrainz. Songs that neither database knows get genre estimates from Claude AI.
The enrichment runs in the background, so the Genre Stats page works even while data is still being fetched. A coverage indicator shows how complete it is — most leagues hit 90% or higher.
Upload your Music League export ZIP to see the Genre Stats for your group. It's a premium feature, alongside Vote Reciprocity, Taste Twins, and Superfan & Nemesis.