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Music Playoffs:
Choose Your Champion

Choose your favorite songs in bracket-style tournaments for artist, bracket-style tournaments, custom games, and more.

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Artist Brackets

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Album Face-Off

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Fate Mode

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Artist vs Artist

How It Works

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1. Choose Your Songs

Pick an artist or create a custom bracket with your own songs or pit two artists against each other.

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2. Vote on Matchups

Songs are paired up in head-to-head matchups. Listen to previews and pick your favorite in each round.

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3. Crown a Winner

After all rounds are complete, your top song is crowned the champion and saved for sharing.

Explore Brackets

Discover brackets created by the Music Brackets community. See which songs other players crowned as their favorites, browse recent and popular results, and like the brackets you enjoy.

2 days ago8 songs
"DNA"
Kendrick Lamar • Artist Brackets • Single Elimination
4 days ago16 songs
"Good Days"
SZA • Artist Brackets • Double Elimination
1 week ago32 songs
"Lose Yourself"
Eminem • Artist vs Artist • Single Elimination

About the Explore Page

The Explore page is a community-driven feed of completed music brackets. When players finish a bracket tournament and toggle it as public, their results appear here for everyone to see. Each card shows the winning song, the artist, the bracket format, and when it was played.

Browsing other people's brackets is a great way to discover new music. You might find an artist you've never heard of, or see a deep cut crowned over a popular hit and wonder what makes it special. Like brackets that catch your eye — the most-liked results rise to the top of the Popular tab.

Game History

View all of your past bracket games in one place. Revisit completed brackets to see your final rankings, or pick up an in-progress game right where you left off.

No game history yet

Play some games and they will appear here

About Game History

Every bracket you play is automatically saved to your browser's local storage. This means your history persists even if you close the tab or restart your browser. Each entry shows the game mode, bracket size, elimination type, and whether the game is completed or still in progress.

Want to share your results with others? After completing a bracket, you can sign in with Google on the results page to save it to your account and make it visible on the Explore page. Cloud-saved brackets are accessible from any device, while local history stays on the browser where you played.

🎨 Appearance

🌙 Dark Mode / Light Mode
🎨 Accent Color
✨ Animations — On/Off
📱 Compact Mode — On/Off
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Beach
Forest
Ocean
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🌎 Language

Language: English
Español
Français
العربية
Português
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🎵 Music

🔊 Default Volume
🎧 Autoplay: On/Off
🔀 Shuffle Songs: On/Off
⏱️ Preview Length: 10 sec / 15 sec / 30 sec
🚫 Explicit Songs: On/Off

🎮 Game

🔄 Confirm Before Choosing: On/Off
❤️ Lives
🎯 Difficulty: Easy / Normal / Hard
🔀 Randomize Matchups: On/Off

👤 Account

Spotify account
Spotify listening dashboard
Username
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📊 Privacy & Data

Save game history
Save statistics
Clear game history
Reset all settings

❓ Help

How MusicBrackets works
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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about playing Music Brackets.

A music bracket is a tournament-style ranking system where songs go head-to-head. You compare songs one-by-one, vote on your favorite, and keep going until one song wins the full bracket.
From the home page, choose a game mode such as Artist Brackets, Custom Games, or Artist vs Artist. Then select your artist(s), pick a bracket size, choose single or double elimination, and start playing.
Single elimination means one loss ends the run. Double elimination gives a losing song one more chance in a lower bracket, making the tournament a bit more forgiving and longer.
Yes. Most matchups include track previews so you can listen before voting. You can also use the embedded player and music previews on the bracket page to compare songs before making a choice.
We pull songs from the selected artist's catalog, randomize the seeding, and build a matchup list automatically. The bracket size determines how many tracks are included in the tournament.
Custom games mix songs from across the database into one bracket. This mode is great when you want a fresh, unpredictable ranking challenge with different genres, eras, and artists.
You pick two artists, then their songs are combined into one bracket. Songs from both artists compete against each other to decide which artist's catalog has more fan-favorite tracks.
Yes. After finishing a bracket, you can save it locally and, if you sign in, you can also share or publish your results from the results screen for the community to view.
The Explore page is a community feed that shows recent and popular public brackets. It gives you a chance to see how other fans ranked songs and discover music you may not have heard before.
Yes. Music Brackets is free to use for personal music-ranking fun, and it is designed to be a lightweight, accessible music discovery tool for fans.
No. You can play most bracket modes without an account. You only need to sign in for cloud saves, public sharing, and some account-based features.
The catalog includes thousands of artists and songs across a wide range of genres and eras, and new music is added regularly.

How was this game?

🎵 Artist Brackets · Playlist Maker

Build Your Ultimate Bracket

Paste any Spotify playlist link and turn it into a head-to-head tournament of your favorite songs.

⚠️ Heads up: right now this only works with playlists you personally own on Spotify. Trying someone else's playlist - even a public one - will fail with an access error, since reading other users' playlists needs a separate approval from Spotify (Extended Quota Mode) that this app doesn't have yet.

Whose Discography Reigns Supreme?

Pick two artists and let their biggest hits go head-to-head, round after round.

🎤 Artist A

Choose Your First Contender

Selected: None
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🎤 Artist B

Choose Your Second Contender

Selected: None

🏆 Combined Bracket

Both artists' songs go into one bracket — half from each — so they face off within and across their catalogues.

Elimination Type
Difficulty

The deepest cuts in the catalogue. Almost nobody gets these.

🏆 Biggest Hits · Full Catalog