diff --git a/frontend/src/components/library-status-indicator/library-status-indicator.ts b/frontend/src/components/library-status-indicator/library-status-indicator.ts
index 1186c16..5fb8fbe 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/library-status-indicator/library-status-indicator.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/components/library-status-indicator/library-status-indicator.ts
@@ -297,9 +297,23 @@ export class LibraryStatusIndicator extends LitElement {
         // row to one and nothing to the other, and "Add … to library"
         // was the old button's promise written into the copy.
         if (this.actionable) {
-            return this.status === 'queued'
-                ? `Cancel the request for ${kind}${name}`
-                : `Request ${kind}${name}`;
+            if (this.status === 'queued') {
+                return `Cancel the request for ${kind}${name}`;
+            }
+
+            // A partly-held album is actionable *and* has a count, and
+            // the count does not survive being named after the action
+            // alone. The `partial` case below says why it matters — a
+            // ring says "some" to a sighted user and nothing to anyone
+            // else — and that argument does not stop applying because
+            // the badge became clickable. This branch used to say only
+            // "Request album X", so the one state the ring exists for
+            // was the one state whose name did not mention it.
+            if (this.status === 'partial') {
+                return `Request the rest of ${kind}${name} — ${this.owned} of ${this.expected} tracks are in your library`;
+            }
+
+            return `Request ${kind}${name}`;
         }
 
         switch (this.status) {
diff --git a/frontend/test/components/library-status-indicator.test.ts b/frontend/test/components/library-status-indicator.test.ts
index fca6361..64aae0b 100644
--- a/frontend/test/components/library-status-indicator.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/test/components/library-status-indicator.test.ts
@@ -77,3 +77,30 @@ describe('the library status badge', () => {
     expect(name).toContain('Glass Harbour');
   });
 });
+
+/**
+ * A partly-held album is the one state that is *actionable and
+ * counted*: there are tracks left to ask for, so the badge is a button
+ * — and a control is named after what activating it does, which is how
+ * the count came to be dropped from exactly the state the ring exists
+ * for. Both, or the ring says "some" to an eye and nothing to anyone
+ * else.
+ */
+describe('a partial badge that can act', () => {
+  it('names the action and keeps the count', async () => {
+    const el = await fixture('library-status-indicator', {
+      status: 'partial',
+      owned: 9,
+      expected: 12,
+      entityType: 'album',
+      label: 'Glass Harbour',
+      requestMbid: 'rg-1',
+    });
+
+    const name = shadow(el, '.badge')?.getAttribute('aria-label') ?? '';
+
+    expect(shadow(el, 'button.badge')).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(name).toContain('Request the rest of');
+    expect(name).toContain('9 of 12');
+  });
+});