# "Release Date" website for music?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/release-date-website-for-music/752686>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 20, 2016, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/release-date-website-for-music/752686 "2016-04-20T00:26:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/release-date-website-for-music/752686/1 "2016-04-20T00:26:00Z")

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Is there a good website that allows you to put in the name of a song (and maybe the group or artist) and it will tell you the year the song was released?

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**Author:** ![zombywoof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9e8a1a/32.png) [@zombywoof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombywoof)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/release-date-website-for-music/752686/2 "2016-04-20T00:41:17Z")

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Try [Allmusic.com](http://Allmusic.com)

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/release-date-website-for-music/752686/3 "2016-04-20T02:16:33Z")

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**zombywoof** has good advice, but there’s a slight catch in that [allmusic.com](http://allmusic.com) lists the release date of most _albums_. So you may have to search for the song, then look at the album it appeared on to find the info you want.