# Heardle

> Heardle, a daily song-guessing game made for eight friends, reached a million daily users.

- Owner: Heardle's creators; Spotify from July 2022
- Kind: Game
- Sector: Gaming
- Seed date: 2022-02-26
- Peak proxy date: Mar 2022
- Date basis: Proxy date; not a directly measured attention peak. Dates use the stated precision; chart positions are date anchors.
- Spread Score: 28 (Niche, provisional), v1.2
- Mechanics: Shareable output, Daily ritual, Newsjacking

## Summary

Heardle, 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.

## Timeline

- 2022-02-26 — Heardle creator (Open web) — Heardle, a daily song-guessing game first shared with eight friends, went out to the public.
- Mar 2022 — Peak proxy: Heardle players (Open web) — Similarweb estimated Heardle's web visits peaked at 69 million in March 2022. (69M visits in March)
- Mar 2022 — Questlove (X) — Questlove played Heardle and posted about it on Twitter, the game's creator told Variety.

The full timeline, metrics and sources are on the case page, or via the Pro API (https://howitspread.com/developers).

Canonical URL: https://howitspread.com/cases/heardle

Cite as: How It Spread (2026). “Heardle.” Case HIS-00938. Spread Score v1.2: 28/100. Updated 2026-10-15. https://howitspread.com/id/HIS-00938