Music Tier List Template
A music tier list template is a ranking grid preloaded with musical genres and formats, ready to be sorted into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers.
Drag an item onto a tier, or tap it and then tap a tier.
Items to rank
Making a music tier list
Music tier lists tend to expose taste faster than any other category, because genre preferences are strongly held and rarely examined. A useful constraint is to rank for a single context - what you would put on while working, or at a party - which turns a vague argument about quality into a question you can actually answer.
Genre lists reward specificity. "Electronic" is too broad to place honestly, but house, ambient and drum and bass sit in genuinely different tiers for most people, and splitting them is what makes the ranking say something.
What is in this template
- Hip hop
- Jazz
- Metal
- Disco
- Ambient
- Punk
- Soul
- Drum and bass
- Country
- Classical
- Reggae
- Synthpop
- Folk
- House
- Afrobeats
Frequently asked questions
- How do you make a music tier list?
- Fix a listening context - working, driving, at a party - then rank genres against that. Ranking music in the abstract tends to produce a tier list of what you think you should like rather than what you actually play.
- Should I rank genres, artists or albums?
- Genres are the most durable and the easiest to place. Albums make the sharpest list but need you to know them all well. Artists sit awkwardly in between, because most have work that would land in several different tiers.
