Welcome to the final week of the Sporcle Spotify challenge! It’s been a long slog since mid-February, and we’ve had a global pandemic during the period.
Here are the results so far – we had a lot of 19s last week, and I think a lot of people missed Pit Bull? There’s a very tight battle for first, while John and Max are locked in a tough struggle for placings in the bottom half of the table. Third place might depend on if Scott gets around to submitting his results from the last few weeks.
| Participant | Week 19 | Total |
| Sheik Yerbouti | 19 | 370 |
| Tony | 19 | 369 |
| Geoff (1001) | 19 | 354 |
| jprobichaud | 19 | 351 |
| Rich Kamerman | 19 | 347 |
| Scott | not yet | 338 |
| John (2loud2old) | 14 | 333 |
| Max (badfinger20) | 18 | 333 |
| Paul | 13 | 291 |
The final quiz is at: https://www.sporcle.com/games/MSUKent/artist-by-popular-spotify-songs-xx
I think we’re ending with the most brutal quiz of the series. I scored 16/20, the average is 52%.
I like how this post has been one of the most popular on this site over the last couple of days: https://albumreviews.blog/last-day-of-june-the-finn-brothers/
My misses so far: The Partridge Family, Post Malone, Snoop Dogg, Bobby Vinton, Loverboy, David Soul, Ice Cube, The Pussycat Dolls, Tommy Tutone, The Jonas Brothers, Debbie Gibson, Daniel Powter, Adam Ant, Iggy Azalea, Bruno Mars, The Yardbirds, Jimmy Eat World, Kid Rock, Flo Rida, The Romantics, Arctic Monkeys, Mary J. Blige, Mudhoney, Niall Horan, ToneLoc, Snow Patrol, Pit Bull, ‘Tootsie Slide’, ‘Closer to Fine’, ‘I’m Ready’, ‘Story of my Life’.
If you missed the early weeks and want to catch up, you can find the previous quizzes at https://albumreviews.blog/category/sporcle/
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Hard to believe this series has been going on since February. A lot has transpired since then, but my streak of not getting a perfect score has been intact for quite some time, although my 17/20 score this week isn’t bad. I guessed a name for one of the artists I didn’t know that I should have guessed for the other, since that one was right. Oh well. This has been fun, and I stand in awe of the high scorers. Well done, gentlemen.
I stopped getting perfect scores halfway through – I think they get a bit harder as they ran out of super well-known artists.
17/20 for me. That one was hard.
In early today! I thought it was hard, but everyone is beating me so far.
It was hard. And yes, early jump as I had a few minutes.
SCORE
15/20 that was murder… the first 11 were simple…then it was down hill.
I thought it was tough too, but everyone else has been doing well.
20/20 this week, very happy with that one. Spent ages wondering why it wouldn’t accept Slade then just as long trying to remember the name of the band that covered it
This kid in intermediate always brought that tape into school.
20/20 – some hard ones, but got there at the end.
‘Tootsie Slide’ – probably one of the most influental artists of the past decade.
‘Closer to Fine’ – I just typed ‘Girls’ and got the answer from that. (Never heard of them)
‘I’m Ready’ – I’ve heard of ‘Stay with Me’ so I know the artist.
‘Story of My Life’ – I’ve heard of that song so I know the artist.
Nice work!
I know some facts about Drake (he’s a Raptors fan! He had a son recently! He’s one of the highest played artists of the streaming era!) without knowing what any of his songs are called. I’ve always assumed he probably won’t appeal to me because I’m too old…
Keeping my average going (or there abouts) with a 14. The band with the Johnny Cash covers was on the tip of my tongue but the rest would have no idea. Thanks for doing these – was alot of fun. Can’t wait to hear the final scores.
Thanks for sticking in there!
18/20 for me. One of the ones I didn’t get made me laugh because I’m from his hometown and so are my Raptors.
And he’s a big fan…
He sure is.
I don’t know any of his songs, but I know he’s a big Raptors fan.
17 – missed boots are made for walkin’ / all for love / down under (I couldn’t get past the Safety Dance group, Men Without Hats, forgetting the name of the other group of males!)
Too many men bands! Who let the dogs out?