Welcome to Top Selecta

Every day, a hidden artist from across the Black music diaspora is chosen. Your mission: guess who it is.

6,000+ artists spanning hip-hop, R&B, jazz, Afrobeats, reggae, soul, funk, grime and more.

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Guess by Proximity

Name any musician. The closer they are to the hidden artist in genre, era, region and style, the higher they rank. Like Semantle, but for the culture.

Every guess is ranked against the full pool — #1 means you nailed it.

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Reading Your Clues

Each guess shows a rank and temperature:

#1 🎯That's them — you won!

#8 🔥Burning — same world

#120 ♨️Warm — adjust your angle

#3200 🧊Cold — different genre or era

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Tactics

Start broad — try different genres to find the right zone

Narrow by era — 90s? 2010s? The decade matters

Think collabs — artists who work together score close

Use every clue — rank + temp tells you how to pivot

The Leaderboard

Fastest time wins. Each clue you reveal adds +1:30 to your posted time. DNF scores don't qualify for #1.

New artist every day at midnight. Can you be crowned today's TOP SELECTA?

👑 Today's Leader Says

Today's Rankings

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THE REPLAY ROOM — how others played BETA

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Day Streak

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Avg Guesses

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Games Won

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📅 Previous Artists — the archive 📊 My Selecta Profile — your stats 📚 Credits & Sources

🎓 Giving out (nearly) free game Coming Soon The full build story + the bigger vision for where this is all going — it's pretty wild. I want to share it openly but protect the idea, so I'm keeping it for real supporters only.

For complete beginners learning through story & guidance, or experienced players who want to play a newcomer without crushing them — the oracle council levels the field. Part of the same world. Feedback welcome.

🧪 OTHER BETA APPS · STILL BEING WORKED OUT

⛓️ CHAIN — link artists through real collabs 🌉 THE BRIDGE — get from A to B in the fewest links 🖐🏾 FASTEST FINGER — name 5 tracks from their first seconds 🎯 GENRE CHALLENGE — pick a genre, then race a random artist from it

Everything else I'm tinkering with lives on the beta shelf — unlisted, but not hidden. →

Daily Music Challenge

TOP SELECTA

Music of the Diaspora · Find the Artist

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How to play ›

A hidden artist drops every day. Name any musician — the closer they are to the answer in genre, era, region and style, the higher they rank. Like Semantle, but for the diaspora. Use each guess as a clue and work your way in.

#1🎯 That's them — you won!

#8🔥 Almost there — same world

#120♨️ Related — adjust your angle

#3200🧊 Cold — try a different genre or era

ℹ︎ How is closeness calculated?

Every artist carries a mood vector — six audio dimensions (danceability, energy, valence, tempo, acousticness, spirituality) averaged across their genre tags. Your guess is scored using mood similarity (33%), category — hip-hop, R&B, jazz, Afrobeats etc (19%), collaboration history — direct collabs, shared crews & networks (16%), era — active decades (13%), region (8%), role — vocalist, MC, producer (6%), and instrument — voice, rap, piano, trumpet etc (5%). That score is ranked against every other artist in the pool. Your rank (#2–pool size) is where your guess lands — the higher, the closer. 🎯 is the correct answer only.

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◈ Schedule Tomorrow's Artist ◈

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◈ Weekly Genre Planner ◈

Pick a genre per day — a random artist from that pool will be chosen

◈ Test Override ◈

Sets today's artist + wipes leaderboard + resets your game

◈ Maintenance ◈

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You keep full access while it's closed — the lock skips anyone with the admin session.

◈ Today's Leaderboard ◈

◈ Bug Reports ◈

◈ 📈 Visitors ◈

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