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r/MusicRecommendations

209.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 229 upvotes, which works out to 1 per 1,000 members.

1peak upvotes per 1,000 members
209.6Kmembers
229best post
2.5Kmost comments
303posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

62% 31%
Text 62% Question 31% Video 5% Link 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Rec.Me: theme/mood/other specifics 107 Rec.Me: rock/metal/punk 39 Rec.Me: other/many/unknown genres 39 Rec.Me: singers, vocal songs (pop/other) 27 Rec.Me: alt/indie/obscure 22 Rec.Me: electronic/dance 18 Rec.Me: sad/depressing songs 13 Rec.Me: instrumental/classical/traditional 11 Rec.Me: Your favorite music (anything) 10 Song lottery (pick a number) 7

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Story telling songs

↑ 229 💬 1.7K text 2026

Songs about murder?

↑ 202 💬 2.5K question 2026

Angry/loud fuck you or i hope you die songs?

↑ 176 💬 1.4K question 2026

Female singers recommendations

↑ 126 💬 817 text 2026

Female rage songs

↑ 114 💬 612 text 2026

Pop music that even MENTIONS rain, storms, thunder, etc…

↑ 79 💬 596 text 2026

songs about real life tragedies?

↑ 78 💬 306 question 2026

Recommend me some obscure 80's music that went under the radar

↑ 77 💬 792 text 2026

Looking for weird rock/metal/punk songs and bands.

↑ 76 💬 737 text 2026

Give me a song you have been obsessed with in the last week and I'll rate it!

↑ 72 💬 519 text 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/MusicRecommendations, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/MusicRecommendations have?
r/MusicRecommendations has about 209.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 303 of its posts; the biggest reached 229 upvotes, which is 1 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/MusicRecommendations?
"Story telling songs" reached 229 upvotes and 1.7K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/MusicRecommendations.
What subreddits are similar to r/MusicRecommendations?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/circled, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska.
What kind of posts do best on r/MusicRecommendations?
Of the posts we hold, 62% are text posts and 31% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/MusicRecommendations?
Across 303 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 22:00 UTC (67 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 22:00 UTC (60 avg upvotes), Monday at 04:00 UTC (60 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/MusicRecommendations?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/MusicRecommendations has 25 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 303 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/MusicRecommendations, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.