Guide

How to rank an artist’s entire discography.

Choose the artist in Ordinalist, a free app for iPhone, iPad and Mac, and it turns their discography into a series of this-song-or-that-song choices. Answer them and you get one complete ranking of the whole catalog. Yes, even the deep cuts.

A finished Ordinalist ranking

Step by step

  1. 01Pick the artist.Choose their discography instead of a single album.
  2. 02Answer the matchups.Two songs at a time, from every era. Pick the one you’d rather hear.
  3. 03Read the verdict.Ordinalist builds a single ranking across everything you compared.

Too many songs for one brain.

A big catalog is too much to sort in your head. Somewhere around song 80 you forget what you thought of song 12. Ordinalist breaks it into small, easy choices and keeps track for you.

Start on your phone, finish on your Mac.

Rankings and stats sync through your iCloud account, so you can start on iPhone, keep going on iPad and show off your questionable taste on the Mac.

Then make it a playlist.

Sync the finished ranking to Apple Music and play the whole catalog best-first. Or worst-first, if you’re like that.

Questions, answered.

Can I rank an artist’s whole discography?

Yes. Along with albums and playlists, you can choose an artist’s discography and rank it with the same head-to-head choices.

Do my rankings sync between devices?

Yes. Rankings and stats sync through your own iCloud account across iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Does Ordinalist work with Apple Music?

Yes. It imports from Apple Music and can sync a finished ranking back to an Apple Music playlist.

Every era. One verdict.

Ordinalist is free on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Download on the App Store