Music League Reviews

This is the greatest app on my phone. It is everything a music geek could ask for: It lets you compete with friends over taste, it helps you find great new music, and you can spend lots of time playing in it or you can pop in and out without losing the fun. Most importantly, I basically traded in all the time I spent on social media for this instead.

There are a few things that could make it perfect:
1. Fix the scheduling glitches. Have lost a couple rounds because of that
2. Make it possible to download a .csv or .xls report of the round-by-round results
3. Add individual chats so you can invite individual people to new leagues (vs telling the whole group)
4. Make it possible to have downvotes be optional - I.e., not mandatory, so if you don’t want to downvote, you don’t have to
5. Improve link sharing in chat
6. Add filters to the entire league and/or individual rounds so you can set parameters like “<500k monthly listeners”. This would prevent people from sneaking in guaranteed winners like RATM or GNR

But even still, awesome app - best one on my phone!

I absolutely love this product. It’s an incredibly fun and creative way to share music with friends or strangers. I can’t stop telling everyone I know about it, and the weekly playlists with my friends have become a highlight of my week. MusicLeague is a little buggy sometimes when entering comments or votes but it always gets through. Looking forward to improvements as they scale, especially in new features. Would love to see a group feature introduced that can house multiple leagues, and robust analytics on who’s voting for you across rounds, who picks the most diverse selections, etc.

I’ve played several rounds of Music League before it was an app, and it’s a real highlight of my life. I’ve been exposed to new artists, enjoyed sharing my favorite songs, been nostalgic about songs from my life, and connected with old friends across the country. Our group even had a party for one of our final rounds and people flew from all over to meet In Chicago to celebrate. I came from California, but we also had friends from Wisconsin, Brooklyn, Chicago… We made t-shirts for everyone. We played all the playlists at the party.
Nathan, if you’re reading this - thank for creating this. It’s been a real joy.

With mechanics that are well-conceived and option to alter them to your whim, MusicLeague is an amazing way to share music among friends. It’s a game that has taken my friend group by storm. I can’t recommend it highly enough! If you want something more competitive, alter the rules to do that. If you want something chill, you can do that too. It’s modularity is one of its greatest strengths, and the base fundamental mechanics are just great for encouraging you to engage with lots of good tunes. Love it.

I am really enjoying this game, despite not doing very well in my league. Some recommended changes: 1) standardize points for each round (first place gets 5 pts or something) rather than basing season points on total song rankings; 2) add an element where you get extra points for guessing who added what song; 3) negative points for last to submit their songs and/or vote

I never go out of my way to review anything but I was invited to a Music League group at work and it has been so much fun. I was in kind of a music slump for years, just listening to my old favorites, lazy about seeking out new music. This gives you the nudge you need to start digging a little deeper. Best thing though is that you discover new music from complete strangers. I love it

This is Solid!!! Playing it with a group of friends is funner! We play with the same 6 people as we do in fantasy football. We created a group text chat on our phones and send massages back and forth all day about it. If an internal chat could be created into MusicLeague , that would be solid. But our group text chat works great!

I’ve had the chance to play in several leagues before MusicLeague was available and it’s always a fun way to learn new bands and be exposed to new kinds of music, while competing for bragging rights at the same time! MusicLeague makes playing so much more convenient for voting on the go, and making comments while listening to the playlist! Well done. Cheers!

This has been a fun way for me and my friends to introduce and discover new music, and start new conversations the competition aspect is really secondary to me, although sometimes can help propel further discussion. It’s really another fun way to stay connected to your friends or family.

Ads have become unbearable. I saw the developer post on another comment that they’re trying to limit it to “as few as possible”. That is clearly not the case. Every time you click into a round it shows a 5-10 second ad. Can you make banner ads that follow us through MusicLeague but don’t impede our experience instead?

Otherwise, love the game. Allows for creativity with themes and songs that fit the themes.

I like MusicLeague. Really creative idea. Well done. A social media element would kick it up a notch, like a friends list of sorts. That way I can have the option to invite certain friends, my friends list, or open to all users. And swap between a friends feed and all users feed. I hope MusicLeague catches on like I think it will. It’s a really fun way to find new music.

I appreciate the time the artists spent on dressing MusicLeague up but PLEASE lose the custom clip art. It’s unfocused, distracting to look at, gives MusicLeague an immature feel, and basically just not necessary for use of MusicLeague . Go back to monochrome images. Easier on the eyes.

MusicLeague is overall good, but losing the art or changing the design could make navigation feel easier.

The chat feature feels like it could be developed more. Everything in the chat is so small. Too small.

Loving this as another way to keep in touch with long distance friends! One product request…the ability to earn points by correctly guessing who submitted which song! That’s half the fun tbh

We use Music League with friends, family, even coworkers.

After playing a year, I’ve discovered dozens of new (to me) artists and added 100+ songs to my playlists.

I wish ML had features to copy songs directly to other playlists, especially Apple. General Apple Music integration is also a missing feature.

Love MusicLeague , but it would be great if you could have a different username/picture in different leagues. I started a league with some internet friends and don’t really want to show my real identity, but I also have a group with my real life friends and I don’t want to be the only one with a fake name.

It’s a great way to talk about music with friends. And learn about songs you may have thought you knew or ones you’ve never heard. I love MusicLeague! Only wish I learned of it sooner. Glad we have it now though.

-Marc

I love playing this game with friends to discover new music and share my favorites! MusicLeague is thoughtfully designed and having push notifications is a big improvement over the previous web version.

My friends and I are obsessed with this game. There’s a few minor bugs here and there, but it doesn’t matter. The game itself has brought us so much joy and connection. Hope this game never goes away.

Hi,

Could a feature be added where you save or add public leagues, but not join them? Some of them have banger playlists and I don’t necessarily want to participate in the leagues but I enjoy listening to the playlists. I feel like this would be a nice addition and a cool way to find new music (: thanks!

-V

This is an amazing app and game! I love that it can be competitive or just fun. I’ve discovered so much new music and many new friends from playing, and all the added features in MusicLeague make game play even better!

Wish there were some way for admins to set the terms for the league via actual filters. That way duplicate submissions could be avoided. It would also nice to see the comments from the submission when voting. There’s been times I may have voted for the song knowing what it meant to the person submitting it.

If you love music and are a little competitive, this is the perfect app for you. My group of friends and I are addicted. We’re getting to know each other and our music tastes better. Also finding a lot of new music along the way. Cannot recommend enough.

I saw a Instagram Reel promoting MusicLeague and was really excited to play it with my friends but the time delay between selecting songs and voting is very annoying especially between rounds. We have to wait 30 minutes when we would like to just vote right after the final song is input. I understand the structure for online play but, for private leagues I would like more control.
I would love to keep playing if this was changed.

I love this game! Stumbled on it through and IG post and thought I’d give it a shot, invited some friends, and now I’m in there leagues!

This is a really great way to connect with your friends and share music. The playlists are super fun to listen to, the voting can be brutal but fun, and the banter between friends in the rounds is great.

For the most part, I love using MusicLeague to explore new music with my friends. If there was one update that would be really nice, I wish they’d let you update the pace once you’ve set up a league, so be really careful when selecting that option! In order to not lose league progress I now have to fudge all the dates manually every single time a new round comes up

It’s astounding just how many ads are in MusicLeague. Every time you want to change pages, you’re forced to watch a video ad. And considering how much navigation there is in MusicLeague , that’s a ton of ads. I’ve played a good number of free to play games that flood you with ads less than MusicLeague does. If you want to do ads in your free app that’s fine but use banners or something. MusicLeague is completely unusable.

My other review disappeared for some reason so I’m writing again.

My daughter and her friends have been doing this and she started a league with family and friends. It is a lot of fun and the exposure to different music genres really engaged all. We are a multigenerational team so it has been hilarious and competitive.

This is a great way to learn more about your coworkers without using forced fun. No one wants to join a 4pm virtual happy hour to get to know your colleagues. MusicLeague allows you to giggle together without looking at each other awkwardly on a computer. Also, healthy competition is great for a team. It’s like apples to apples for music.

Downloaded this maybe 2-3 weeks ago, loved it. And I understand they need some ad revenue but since I started receiving ads 24 hours ago I can’t even navigate MusicLeague without sitting through a 60 second ad. Checking the Standings in multiple leagues? Prepare to waste 5 minutes of seeing the same shovelware trash game ad. I’m hoping they scale back and improve- the monthly cost is about a $1 too high- if not, I’ll just delete and move on.

Love love love MusicLeague and concept, I’ve had a blast playing it with my friends and it’s exposed me to a ton of new artists and music. I understand the developer’s right to earn money off their product, especially when they continue to have to provide support and infrastructure for running people’s leagues. But my GOD the ads on MusicLeague are incredibly annoying. I have no idea how much control they exert over which ads appear, but it feels like they’ve gone out of their way to pick extremely long and obnoxious ads to push people towards their subscription tier. My suggestion to the devs: please dial down both the length and frequency of your ads, as in their current form they really hamper the experience. And if possible, please offer a single-payment ad-free option in addition to the option to pay a subscription. I have enough subscriptions in my life right now and adding another one here is not an option.

I love music league, and I’m enjoying it very much, but MusicLeague really gets on my nerves sometimes mostly due to the highly aggressive ads that force full views. Also frequently, the ads failed to load and MusicLeague forces you to keep trying before it will let you look at the desired content. Very frustrating.