Heardle
Game · 2022 · Niche
Heardle, a daily song-guessing game made for eight friends, reached a million daily users.
Spread Score
How it worksNumbers
- Daily users (creator-reported)
- 1M
- As of Mar 23, 2022 · Self-reported · Variety
- Peak proxy date
- Mar 2022
- Feb 26 ’22 to Mar 2022
- Platforms
- 4
- Started on Open web
- Origin
- Seeded
- Gaming
How it spread
Trace the originHeardle, a daily game to name a song from its intro, went public on February 26, 2022. Players shared it on Reddit and Twitter, and press called it Wordle for music. By March 23 it reported over a million daily users; Spotify bought it in July.
Proxy date; not a directly measured attention peak. Dates use the stated precision; chart positions are date anchors.
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February 2022
Heardle creator seed · Feb 26 ’22
Heardle, a daily song-guessing game first shared with eight friends, went out to the public.[1]
March 2022
Heardle players peak proxy · Mar 2022
Similarweb estimated Heardle's web visits peaked at 69 million in March 2022.[8]
69M visits in MarchQuestlove platform jump · Mar 2022
Questlove played Heardle and posted about it on Twitter, the game's creator told Variety.[1]
Changelogupdated Oct 16 ’26
- Revised 1 event
- Added: 12 events, 10 sources · Score 39
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