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Nirvana

Every measured song, ranked by the share of Nirvana's own players who named it correctly — never compared against a different artist's catalogue.

69 / 100songs report-ready (n≥200)
200-500players in window
2026-08-22 → 2026-11-01measurement window

Catalogue recognition

Share of this artist's own players who named each song correctly. Thin marks show the 95% interval.

01
Stay Away
98%
02
Something In the Way (Live Acoustic)
97%
03
Smells Like Teen Spirit
97%
04
Stay Away (Remastered)
97%
05
Come As You Are
96%
06
Smells Like Teen Spirit (Devonshire Mix)
95%
07
Heart-Shaped Box
95%
08
Rape Me
94%
09
Lithium
93%
10
Come As You Are (Live Acoustic)
92%
11
On A Plain
92%
12
All Apologies
90%

Hardest to name

69
Scoff
57%
68
Sappy
57%
67
Stain
57%
66
Verse Chorus Verse (Outtake)
58%
65
Spank Thru (Live at Pine Street Theatre)
59%

How fast people finish

A run is ten rounds on Nirvana. This is how quickly players get all ten right.

17.7sfastest verified 10/10
43.5stypical 10/10 run
25%of 1,742 runs were 10/10
60s
Under 60 seconds
340 of 430 perfect runs
79%
50s
Under 50 seconds
278 of 430 perfect runs
65%
40s
Under 40 seconds
173 of 430 perfect runs
40%
30s
Under 30 seconds
66 of 430 perfect runs
15%
How the clock works

The clock is the ten answer times added together, each measured from the start of its round with clip loading included — not wall-clock, because pauses between rounds are not measured. A run counts only if all ten rounds were answered, none was skipped, no single answer came in under a second and the whole run took at least fifteen. 27 runs on this artist were excluded by that floor. Nerve on the last round. 90% of players who had the first nine right also got the tenth. The first round costs you 876ms against the median of rounds two to ten — nobody is warm on the opening clip.

Recognition vs streams

What streaming popularity predicts, against what players actually did.

Evidence

Something In the Way (Live Acoustic) — 63% of this artist's own players name it correctly against 40% predicted by its streaming popularity (23 points above, n=215). Stay Away — 64% of this artist's own players name it correctly against 42% predicted by its streaming popularity (23 points above, n=212). Big Long Now — 13% of this artist's own players name it correctly against 38% predicted by its streaming popularity (24 points below, n=220). Dive — 15% of this artist's own players name it correctly against 41% predicted by its streaming popularity (26 points below, n=209).

Markets

Where this artist is played more than their global share predicts.

01
Indonesia
50-200 players
2.3×
02
Turkey
under 50 players
1.9×
03
Thailand
under 50 players
1.8×
04
Brazil
under 50 players
1.7×
05
Argentina
50-200 players
1.5×
06
Chile
under 50 players
1.3×

Taste neighbours

Artists whose players overlap most, learned from who plays whom — useful for support slots and playlist seeding.

01
Kurt Cobain
shared audience
0.82
02
Alice In Chains
shared audience
0.50
03
Descendents
shared audience
0.48
04
Hole
shared audience
0.46
05
Silverchair
shared audience
0.43
06
Soundgarden
shared audience
0.41

What this is, and is not

Who is measured. Muzify players who chose this artist in the app — mostly existing fans, not a random public sample. Read it as "how well do their own listeners know the catalogue", never as national awareness.

What "named it" means. One clip, four options, a five-second clock. Chance alone is 25%.

Floors. A song appears only above 200 answers; a market only above 25,000 plays. Everything else is withheld rather than shown thin.

Player counts are bands, never exact figures.

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