Music trivia where the B-side wins
Every music fan knows the hits. Krillion asks for the ones only you remember. When the daily dive asked for a Beatles song, Hey Jude, Let It Be and Yesterday were what nearly everyone typed, and they scored the least. The gem was The Inner Light, a George Harrison B-side. For a Queen song it was My Fairy King, a track from their 1973 debut album.
This mode serves an endless run of music prompts: songs and albums by named artists, band members, instruments, musicals, boy bands, composers, chart toppers and Eurovision winners, from past daily dives plus prompts we write ourselves. 25 seconds a prompt, three lives, no daily limit.
Tips for music prompts
- Go past the greatest hits. Album tracks and B-sides are valid answers, and they are where the rare points are.
- Band members include the short-lived ones. Asked for a member of the Beatles, the gem was Jimmie Nicol, the drummer who stood in for Ringo on the 1964 tour.
- Instruments run deep. "Name a musical instrument" accepted more than 3,000 answers, and its gems were the Daxophone and the Octobass. Folk and historical instruments beat the orchestra.
- Watch the "too clever" trap. For a brass instrument, the saxophone was accepted but marked Too clever: lots of players reached for the same trick answer.
- Read the brackets. Prompts with a date or a chart in them, such as a US number one or a UK top ten, only accept songs that meet that exact condition.
Recent music prompts
From recent daily dives. Each links to its hints and answers.
- Name a female singer with over 500,000 monthly listeners on Spotify#96
- Name a rapper with more than 500k monthly Spotify listeners#95
- Name a musical instrument#87
- Name a Justin Bieber song#86
- Name an artist with at least 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify#82
- Name a music festival#78
- Name a song with over a billion streams on Spotify#76
- Name a platform people use to listen to music (apps and services, not devices)#71
- Name a Queen song#66
- Name a Michael Jackson song#65
- Name a Disney song#53
- Name a Taylor Swift song#51
FAQ
- Which music prompts come up?
- Songs and albums by artists from the Beatles and Queen to Taylor Swift and Drake, band line-ups, instruments, Broadway musicals, composers, festivals, chart hits and Eurovision. New music prompts are added as they appear.
- Do I need the exact song title?
- Type the title as it is usually written. Small typos, plurals and a leading "the" are forgiven, but a lyric instead of the title won't match.
- Is this the official Krillion music pack?
- No. This is an independent fan-made game, not affiliated with krillion.io. Play the official game and its themed packs at krillion.io.