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Heardle

Game · 2022 · Niche

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

Heardle
Variety
Spotify To Acquire Music Trivia Sensation Heardle — Spotify
Spotify Newsroom
Heardle, a daily musical puzzle, is the latest iteration of the Wordle game. Unsplash
The National
Heardle Users Credit TikTok For Correctly Guessing Today’s Song
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Test your BTS song knowledge with BTS Heardle
Bandwagon
Spotify buys Wordle-inspired music guessing game Heardle | Daily Hive | Business & Tech
Daily Hive

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Numbers

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

Mechanics

  • Shareable outputPrimary
  • Daily ritual
  • Newsjacking

How it spread

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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.

Proxy date; not a directly measured attention peak. Dates use the stated precision; chart positions are date anchors.

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Timeline (13)

  1. 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]

  2. 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 March
  3. Questlove platform jump · Mar 2022

    Questlove played Heardle and posted about it on Twitter, the game's creator told Variety.[1]

Changelogupdated Oct 16 ’26
  1. 2026-10-16Revised 1 event
  2. 2026-10-15Added: 12 events, 10 sources · Score 39
Origin
Seeded
Sector
Gaming
Region
Global
Daily users (creator-reported)
1M
As of Mar 23, 2022 · Self-reported · Variety
Evidence
Grade B

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Worldle

X · 2022

43
Okay, Wordle is fun, but what about WorLdle? 🌍 Everyday, guess a new country! :D Worldle #3 X/6 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜

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Lewdle

X · 2022

34
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Wikipedia views · Google searchesJan ’22MarAprMayJulSepDecApr ’23JulNovPeak proxyOpen webXRedditPress
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  1. 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]

  2. 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 March
  3. Questlove platform jump · Mar 2022

    Questlove played Heardle and posted about it on Twitter, the game's creator told Variety.[1]

  1. platform jump · Mar 5 ’22

  2. press · Mar 6 ’22

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