We reached a milestone: there are currently more than 7 million releases listed in the Discogs Database! We reached the 6 million releases on the 30th of May last year, so the last 1 million have been added in a period of only 10 months. We want to thank everyone who has contributed and helped making Discogs the wealth of information on releases, artists and labels it is!

To celebrate, we’re posting a question on our social media channels and on this blog every day for 7 days. If you know the answer, just post it in the comments below, or respond to our Facebook, Twitter or Instagram posts. We’ll pick a random winner every day, and this post will be updated with the answer daily. Here is the first question:

Question 1) In the last million releases added, what was the second most contributed genre?

Answer: Pop! Of the last 1 million releases added to the Discogs Database, 16 % was Pop, closely followed by Electronic music with 15% of the entries. Rock remains number 1 with a whopping 27% of releases added:

Many people guessed Electronic, possibly because that is currently the 2nd largest genre on Discogs. Out of all correct answers, the random name generator picked a winner: Congratulations to Andrew Shinn, who entered via our Facebook page, we’ll send a Discogs shirt your way!

Question 2) In the last million releases added, who was the most contributed artist?

Leave your answer in the comments!

Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart!

Apparently the image, though blurred, was a bit of a give away, as we saw quite a few correct answers come in. The winner today is an Instagram user, yuribr. Congratulations!

The top 10 of artists added looks like this (Various with 64,341 and Unknown Artist with 3490 have been left out):

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 2791 Ludwig van Beethoven 2623 Johann Sebastian Bach 2337 The Beatles 2030 Elvis Presley 1750 The Rolling Stones 1673 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1438 David Bowie 1275 Berliner Philharmoniker 1054 Johannes Brahms 1051

Here’s another chance to win yourself a Discogs shirt of choice:

Question 3) In the last 1 million releases added, what was the most contributed Release Year?

Leave your answer in the comments!

Question 3 was difficult, only a few people answered correctly with ‘2014’!

More than 12% of all releases added in the last 10 months dated back to 2014, followed by 2013 with almost 7% and 2012 with 3%. The winner is Adrian Schmitt, who entered via our Facebook page. Congratulations!

We continue with question 4, good luck!

Question 4) In the last 1 million releases added, what was the 10th most contributed Country of Origin?

The answer to question 4 is Spain, with almost 4% of all contributed releases coming from Spain!

This may have been the most difficult question so far, but we still got a few correct answers in. Winner is Instagram user diaryofarecordcollector, congratulations!

The next question is basically a multiple choice one, so keep the guesses coming!

Question 5) In the last 1 million releases added, what day of the week was busiest for contributors?

Sorry about the typo in the question above, got that fixed.. The answer was: Sunday!

It may not come as a surprise that the weekend is your favorite time to submit. The rest of the week is quite evenly busy, although it’s clear to see that Monday is the least favorite day. Maybe you’re all busy doing other things on a Monday, or maybe it has to do with the fact that all the records you purchased in the weekend have already been added, quite a few record stores are closed on these days, and the postal service don’t always deliver on Mondays? The winner of question 5 is aapo.haavisto, who joined via Instagram. Congratulations!

2 more chances to win, question number 6 is coming up shortly!

Question 6) In the last 1 million releases added, what was the 2nd most contributed label?

The answer to question number 6: Columbia! Columbia had almost 2% more contributions than the nr. 3 Polydor. Quite a few of you got it right, and the winner is Jeremy Corby(c)n, who joined via Twitter. Congratulations!

The last question in our 7 million celebration, and maybe the most difficult one to get right, so we’ll go with the person who gets the number closest to the actual number:

7) In the last million releases, how many vinyl releases were added?

The answer to this last question is 473,395: almost 50% of the last million releases added were vinyl releases. Instagram user 1048576.16384 came closest with their guess of 482,000. That makes them the last winner of the 7 million contest. Congratulations!

We hope you enjoyed playing, thanks for joining, and contributing, and let’s get working towards the 8,000,000 releases!



