How to count records with one distinct field in mongoose?

Question

While exploring mongoose for nodejs I ran into the problem of needing to know the amount of user in my collection:

My collection has records, each record has a user

Answer 1

I just needed the number of distinct musicians, but some of the code above did not work for me. If I used count and distinct together I just got the total number.

This was my solution:

/**
 * Get number of distinct musicians
 */

myList.find()
    .distinct('musicianName')
    .exec(function (err, count) {
        console.log(count.length);
    });