diff --git a/osu.Game/Online/Metadata/MultiplayerPlaylistItemStats.cs b/osu.Game/Online/Metadata/MultiplayerPlaylistItemStats.cs
index 6e50242556..19a2bde497 100644
--- a/osu.Game/Online/Metadata/MultiplayerPlaylistItemStats.cs
+++ b/osu.Game/Online/Metadata/MultiplayerPlaylistItemStats.cs
@@ -27,11 +27,14 @@ namespace osu.Game.Online.Metadata
         public long[] TotalScoreDistribution { get; set; } = new long[TOTAL_SCORE_DISTRIBUTION_BINS];
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// The cumulative total of all passing scores (across all users) in the playlist so far.
+        /// The cumulative total of all passing scores (across all users) for the playlist item so far.
         /// </summary>
         [Key(2)]
-        public long TotalPlaylistScore { get; set; }
+        public long CumulativeScore { get; set; }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// The last score to have been processed into provided statistics. Generally only for server-side accounting purposes.
+        /// </summary>
         [Key(3)]
         public ulong LastProcessedScoreID { get; set; }
     }
diff --git a/osu.Game/Screens/OnlinePlay/DailyChallenge/DailyChallenge.cs b/osu.Game/Screens/OnlinePlay/DailyChallenge/DailyChallenge.cs
index 17241a5fd6..ff37d7c970 100644
--- a/osu.Game/Screens/OnlinePlay/DailyChallenge/DailyChallenge.cs
+++ b/osu.Game/Screens/OnlinePlay/DailyChallenge/DailyChallenge.cs
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ namespace osu.Game.Screens.OnlinePlay.DailyChallenge
                 Schedule(() =>
                 {
                     breakdown.SetInitialCounts(itemStats.TotalScoreDistribution);
-                    totals.SetInitialCounts(itemStats.TotalScoreDistribution.Sum(c => c), itemStats.TotalPlaylistScore);
+                    totals.SetInitialCounts(itemStats.TotalScoreDistribution.Sum(c => c), itemStats.CumulativeScore);
                 });
             });