diff --git a/src/database/level/sorted.js b/src/database/level/sorted.js
index 46305c56d1..369c820d53 100644
--- a/src/database/level/sorted.js
+++ b/src/database/level/sorted.js
@@ -153,6 +153,35 @@ module.exports = function(db, module) {
 		});
 	};
 
+	module.sortedSetScores = function(key, values, callback) {
+		values = values.map(function(value) {
+			return value ? value.toString() : value;
+		});
+
+		module.getListRange(key, 0, -1, function(err, list) {
+			if (err) {
+				return callback(err);
+			}
+
+			var map = {};
+			list = list.filter(function(item) {
+				return values.indexOf(item.value) !== -1;
+			}).forEach(function(item) {
+				map[item.value] = item.score;
+			});
+
+			var	returnData = new Array(values.length),
+				score;
+
+			for(var i=0; i<values.length; ++i) {
+				score = map[values[i]];
+				returnData[i] = score ? score : null;
+			}
+
+			callback(null, returnData);
+		});
+	};
+
 	module.isSortedSetMember = function(key, value, callback) {
 		// maybe can be improved by having a parallel array
 		module.getListRange(key, 0, -1, function(err, list) {
diff --git a/src/database/mongo/sorted.js b/src/database/mongo/sorted.js
index 4ba3033932..96015b8f97 100644
--- a/src/database/mongo/sorted.js
+++ b/src/database/mongo/sorted.js
@@ -143,6 +143,50 @@ module.exports = function(db, module) {
 		});
 	};
 
+	module.sortedSetsScore = function(keys, value, callback) {
+		value = helpers.valueToString(value);
+		db.collection('objects').find({_key:{$in:keys}, value: value}).toArray(function(err, result) {
+			if (err) {
+				return callback(err);
+			}
+
+			var map = helpers.toMap(result),
+				returnData = [],
+				item;
+
+			for(var i=0; i<keys.length; ++i) {
+				item = map[keys[i]];
+				returnData.push(item ? item.score : null);
+			}
+
+			callback(null, returnData);
+		});
+	};
+
+	module.sortedSetScores = function(key, values, callback) {
+		values = values.map(helpers.valueToString);
+		db.collection('objects').find({_key: key, value: {$in: values}}).toArray(function(err, result) {
+			if (err) {
+				return callback(err);
+			}
+
+			var map = {};
+			result.forEach(function(item) {
+				map[item.value] = item.score;
+			});
+
+			var	returnData = new Array(values.length),
+				score;
+
+			for(var i=0; i<values.length; ++i) {
+				score = map[values[i]];
+				returnData[i] = score ? score : null;
+			}
+
+			callback(null, returnData);
+		});
+	};
+
 	module.isSortedSetMember = function(key, value, callback) {
 		module.sortedSetScore(key, value, function(err, score) {
 			callback(err, !!score);
@@ -167,26 +211,6 @@ module.exports = function(db, module) {
 		});
 	};
 
-	module.sortedSetsScore = function(keys, value, callback) {
-		value = helpers.valueToString(value);
-		db.collection('objects').find({_key:{$in:keys}, value: value}).toArray(function(err, result) {
-			if(err) {
-				return callback(err);
-			}
-
-			var map = helpers.toMap(result),
-				returnData = [],
-				item;
-
-			for(var i=0; i<keys.length; ++i) {
-				item = map[keys[i]];
-				returnData.push(item ? item.score : null);
-			}
-
-			callback(null, returnData);
-		});
-	};
-
 	module.getSortedSetUnion = function(sets, start, stop, callback) {
 		getSortedSetUnion(sets, 1, start, stop, callback);
 	};
diff --git a/src/database/redis/sorted.js b/src/database/redis/sorted.js
index 9f1b124711..ef29b3b935 100644
--- a/src/database/redis/sorted.js
+++ b/src/database/redis/sorted.js
@@ -82,6 +82,18 @@ module.exports = function(redisClient, module) {
 		redisClient.zscore(key, value, callback);
 	};
 
+	module.sortedSetsScore = function(keys, value, callback) {
+		multi('zscore', keys, value, callback);
+	};
+
+	module.sortedSetScores = function(key, values, callback) {
+		var multi = redisClient.multi();
+		for(var i=0; i<values.length; ++i) {
+			multi.zscore(key, values[i]);
+		}
+		multi.exec(callback);
+	};
+
 	module.isSortedSetMember = function(key, value, callback) {
 		module.sortedSetScore(key, value, function(err, score) {
 			callback(err, !!score);
@@ -104,10 +116,6 @@ module.exports = function(redisClient, module) {
 		});
 	};
 
-	module.sortedSetsScore = function(keys, value, callback) {
-		multi('zscore', keys, value, callback);
-	};
-
 	function multi(command, keys, value, callback) {
 		var	m = redisClient.multi();
 
diff --git a/src/topics/tags.js b/src/topics/tags.js
index 2681a30597..7a909bd35b 100644
--- a/src/topics/tags.js
+++ b/src/topics/tags.js
@@ -104,14 +104,12 @@ module.exports = function(Topics) {
 			}
 
 			var uniqueTags = _.uniq(_.flatten(members));
-			var tagTopicSets = uniqueTags.map(function(tag) {
-				return 'tag:' + tag + ':topics';
-			});
 
-			db.sortedSetsCard(tagTopicSets, function(err, data) {
+			db.sortedSetScores('tags:topic:count', uniqueTags, function(err, data) {
 				if (err) {
 					return callback(err);
 				}
+
 				var tagCounts = _.object(uniqueTags, data);
 
 				members.forEach(function(tags, index) {