Is Rate Your Music free?

Yes. Rate Your Music is free and does not ask you to register or hand over an email address before you can use it.

How long does Rate Your Music take?

Clear your evening. We warned you. We file it under "Rabbit hole" — charts for any genre, year or country you can name.

Does Rate Your Music work on a phone?

Rate Your Music really wants a mouse and a wide window. It will load on a phone, but the experience is built for desktop.

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Rate Your Music

Charts for any genre, year or country you can name

Visit rateyourmusic.com More Sound & Signal

rateyourmusic.com

Rabbit hole · Best on desktop

Free, no sign-up · online since 2000

What Rate Your Music actually is

RYM is a community-built catalogue where users rate releases and file them into an unusually precise genre taxonomy. Its chart tool crosses genre with year, country and descriptor, so you can ask for the best-rated Ethiopian jazz of the 1970s and get a ranked, listenable answer.

Why it is worth your time

The descriptor tags, things like melancholic or lethargic, are voted on by listeners and turn out to be a far better search handle than genre on its own.

Common questions

Is Rate Your Music free?: Yes. Rate Your Music is free and does not ask you to register or hand over an email address before you can use it.
How long does Rate Your Music take?: Clear your evening. We warned you. We file it under "Rabbit hole" — charts for any genre, year or country you can name.
Does Rate Your Music work on a phone?: Rate Your Music really wants a mouse and a wide window. It will load on a phone, but the experience is built for desktop.
What kind of site is Rate Your Music?: We list it under Sound & Signal — music discovery that beats the algorithm. The descriptor tags, things like melancholic or lethargic, are voted on by listeners and turn out to be a far better search handle than genre on its own.

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What Rate Your Music actually is

Why it is worth your time

The descriptor tags, things like melancholic or lethargic, are voted on by listeners and turn out to be a far better search handle than genre on its own.

Common questions

Is Rate Your Music free?: Yes. Rate Your Music is free and does not ask you to register or hand over an email address before you can use it.
How long does Rate Your Music take?: Clear your evening. We warned you. We file it under "Rabbit hole" — charts for any genre, year or country you can name.
Does Rate Your Music work on a phone?: Rate Your Music really wants a mouse and a wide window. It will load on a phone, but the experience is built for desktop.
What kind of site is Rate Your Music?: We list it under Sound & Signal — music discovery that beats the algorithm. The descriptor tags, things like melancholic or lethargic, are voted on by listeners and turn out to be a far better search handle than genre on its own.