diff --git a/frontend/src/components/cover-grid/cover-grid-styles.ts b/frontend/src/components/cover-grid/cover-grid-styles.ts
index 946283f..544c60a 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/cover-grid/cover-grid-styles.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/components/cover-grid/cover-grid-styles.ts
@@ -111,13 +111,32 @@ const gridStyles = css`
         scale: 0.95;
     }
 
+    /* Title and year on one line, and only the title truncates.
+
+       The year used to be part of the same run of text, so it was the
+       first thing an ellipsis ate: a card wide enough for a long album
+       name never showed its year, and browsing by year showed years
+       only for the albums with short names -- the sort said one thing
+       and the cards showed another.
+
+       A flex row rather than a second line, because the card's height
+       is what the virtualizer measures rows by. */
     .album-name {
         font-size: var(--album-name-font, 14px);
         font-weight: 400;
         color: var(--yj-text-primary, #fff);
+        display: flex;
+        justify-content: center;
+        align-items: baseline;
+        gap: 0.35em;
+        min-width: 0;
+    }
+
+    .album-title {
         white-space: nowrap;
         overflow: hidden;
         text-overflow: ellipsis;
+        min-width: 0;
     }
 
     .artist-name {
@@ -131,6 +150,8 @@ const gridStyles = css`
 
     .album-year {
         color: var(--yj-text-tertiary, #888);
+        flex: 0 0 auto;
+        white-space: nowrap;
     }
 
     /* ========================================
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/cover-grid/cover-grid.ts b/frontend/src/components/cover-grid/cover-grid.ts
index 540f4ad..83ac1aa 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/cover-grid/cover-grid.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/components/cover-grid/cover-grid.ts
@@ -1898,10 +1898,10 @@ export class CoverGrid
                         class="album-name"
                         title="${album.Name}"
                     >
-                        ${album.Name}${album.Year
-                ? html`
-                              <span class="album-year">
-                                  (${album.Year})</span
+                        <span class="album-title">${album.Name}</span
+                        >${album.Year
+                ? html`<span class="album-year"
+                                  >(${album.Year})</span
                               >`
                 : nothing}
                     </div>
diff --git a/frontend/test/components/album-card-year.test.ts b/frontend/test/components/album-card-year.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ce57a48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/test/components/album-card-year.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+/**
+ * The year on an album card survives a long album name.
+ *
+ * The year used to be part of the same run of text as the title, inside
+ * one `text-overflow: ellipsis` box — so it was the first thing the
+ * ellipsis ate. A card wide enough for a long name never showed its
+ * year at all, which means sorting the grid *by year* showed years only
+ * for the albums with short names: the sort said one thing and the
+ * cards showed another.
+ *
+ * The fix is a flex row in which only the title truncates, rather than
+ * a second line, because the card's height is what the virtualizer
+ * measures rows by.
+ */
+import { describe, expect, it, beforeEach } from 'vitest';
+import type { LitElement } from 'lit';
+
+import '@components/cover-grid/cover-grid';
+import { emit, stub, flush, resetHarness } from '@test/support/harness';
+import { Events } from '../../src/events';
+import { fixture, shadowAll } from '@test/support/render';
+
+const LONG =
+  'The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess in the Key of Everything';
+
+/** Long names throughout: the fault only shows on a card under
+ *  pressure, and a grid of "Album 3" proves nothing. */
+const ALBUMS = Array.from({ length: 12 }, (_, i) => ({
+  ID: i + 1,
+  Name: `${LONG} ${i + 1}`,
+  ArtistName: 'Aurora Fields',
+  Year: 2019 + (i % 5),
+}));
+
+/** Give the virtualizer a viewport; a zero-height host renders nothing. */
+function sized(el: HTMLElement): void {
+  el.style.display = 'block';
+  el.style.height = '600px';
+  el.style.width = '900px';
+}
+
+async function settle(el: LitElement): Promise<void> {
+  await flush();
+  await el.updateComplete;
+  await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 80));
+}
+
+describe('the album card’s year', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    resetHarness();
+    stub('library.Library.GetAlbums', ALBUMS);
+    stub('library.Library.GetTracks', []);
+    emit(Events.LibraryScanComplete);
+  });
+
+  it('is rendered on every card, however long the name', async () => {
+    const el = await fixture<LitElement>('cover-grid');
+
+    sized(el);
+    await settle(el);
+
+    const cards = shadowAll(el, '.album-card');
+    const years = shadowAll(el, '.album-year');
+
+    expect(cards.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    expect(years).toHaveLength(cards.length);
+    expect(years.every((y) => /^\(\d{4}\)$/.test(y.textContent!.trim()))).toBe(
+      true,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('is not what the ellipsis eats', async () => {
+    const el = await fixture<LitElement>('cover-grid');
+
+    sized(el);
+    await settle(el);
+
+    const year = shadowAll(el, '.album-year')[0]!;
+    const title = shadowAll(el, '.album-title')[0]!;
+
+    // The title is the box that gives way...
+    expect(title.scrollWidth).toBeGreaterThan(title.clientWidth);
+    // ...and the year keeps every pixel it asked for.
+    expect(year.clientWidth).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    expect(year.scrollWidth).toBeLessThanOrEqual(year.clientWidth + 1);
+  });
+});