Rate Your Music alternatives for finding a song's genre in 2026

Rate Your Music is one of the best places to rate albums and explore charts, and its members vote primary and secondary genres for each release.[1] When the question is one song rather than one album, other places answer it more directly.

A page per track with its own subgenre, voted by listeners, no account needed, with a one-line reason under each vote: Where Is My Mind by Pixies. The genre map dates and cites each subgenre. Compare: What the Genre!? vs Rate Your Music.

Open data where people with an account vote genres onto artists, releases and tracks.[2] Best for tagging a library. See the comparison.

Free-form listener tags on tracks, weighted by use; not every tag is a genre.[3] See the comparison.

A genre from Beatport's own list on every electronic track it sells, chosen by the label.[4] See the comparison.

The artist's own genre and tags on each release, often the scene's own microgenre words.[5] See the comparison.

Editors' genres, moods and themes, with biographies and reviews.[6] See the comparison.