Spotify Wrapped is one of the Spotify’s best features, giving you a year-end recap of your listening habits. The problem is you can only view it at the end of each year! That is, if you don’t use these third-party apps to peek your Spotify stats early.
Stats.fm
The app that you do not want to miss out on when it comes to advanced Spotify stats is Stats.fm. After logging in with your Spotify account, you can use Stats.fm to see your top tracks, albums, artists, genres, and recently played songs. These can be sorted by time, over the last four weeks, six months, lifetime, or a custom date range.
You can even find your “music soulmate,” a user who has a similar music taste to yours. The stats that you get through Stats.fm, including streaming minutes and common hours of streaming, are more advanced than those you get from Spotify Wrapped.
You can use Stats.fm Plus ($5.99/year or $12.99 for lifetime access) for in-depth, ad-free insights, like total listening minutes, top 10,000 tracks, albums, and artists, advanced charts like listening clocks, and advanced sorting. Stats.fm can be used on an iPhone, iPad, Android, or as a web app.
Instafest
What if you could turn your Spotify artist stats into a (virtual) festival lineup? A fun way to do this is through Instafest, which creates a personalized music festival graphic that represents your listening habits.
You can customize your lineup and choose to include your top artists from the past four weeks, six months, or one year. The graphic’s theme can be chosen from “Malibu Sunrise,” “LA Twilight,” and “Mojave Dusk.” You can also see your “basic score,” which evaluates how niche or mainstream your music is, and show your username, which changes the festival from Instafest to include your name.
A great feature that Instafest provides is the ability to hide any artist that you do not want to see in your lineup graphic. The graphic can be downloaded as a picture, or shared with your friends.
How Bad Is Your Streaming Music
One of the most interesting ways to get a glimpse of your Spotify listening habits is through How Bad Is Your Streaming Music. This is a satirical tool that aims to “judge your awful taste in music.” How Bad Is Your Streaming Music uses a “faux music-loving AI” to scan through and comment on your Spotify history, and give a snapshot of your Spotify stats.
After connecting to your Spotify account, the service takes its time to thoroughly roast your listening patterns. It provides an interactive experience before the final analysis, asking you questions like “Do you really listen to this artist?” You can also see your Spotify score slowly decline throughout the conversation, and once the tool is done analyzing your music taste with a heavy dose of sarcastic disgust, you get a final score.
The final scan of your music taste ends with more satirical judgment and stats like your most listened-to songs and artists, how trendy and basic your taste is, and the overall patterns and themes of your music.
Stats for Spotify
If you want to see a compact list of your top tracks, artists, and genres, Stats for Spotify is a simple-to-use platform that gets the job done. Like Spotify Wrapped, Stats for Spotify gives you a glimpse of your listening habits for the entire year. You can view your stats any time of the year, and also take a look at your top tracks, artists, and genres over the last four weeks and last six months for a more updated picture of your music taste.
Recently played songs are updated in real time, so you can visit the tab to, say, find a song that you listened to in a Smart Shuffle and didn’t save to your liked songs playlist.
To view a recently played song on Stats for Spotify, it must have been played for more than 30 seconds. Any song played during a private session will not be displayed.
Stats for Spotify has another interesting element: all the tracks, artists, and genres that you can see in your personalized lists are ranked so that they can be compared to your last visit. Arrows indicate how they are constantly rising and falling in your personal charts. By clicking a single button, you can easily create playlists to play in your Spotify library.
Replayify
Replayify is similar to Stats for Spotify, allowing you to see your top artists, tracks, and listening history. You can see up to 50 tracks or artists over three periods (last four weeks, last 6 months, or all time). The “all-time” option is a great way to get a comprehensive look at your listening habits over the lifespan of your Spotify account. This is also something that not every third-party Spotify stat website or app gives you as an option, so the data might come in handy to revisit artists or tracks that you’ve forgotten.
With Replayify, you can create specific playlists that contain five songs from your top 20 artists in a random order. You can also create playlists from your top 50 recently played songs, or your all-time top 50 tracks. One of my favorite things about this platform is how sleek and simple the interface is: all the tabs are organized neatly, and you can easily navigate your Spotify stats and create quick playlists.
Receiptify
Generating a virtual receipt for your listening habits is a great way to get a compact snapshot of your Spotify stats, and that is what Receiptify does. You can get a personalized Spotify receipt for separate metrics like top tracks, artists, and genres over four weeks, six months, and the last year. A receipt can also be generated for “stats,” which showcases metrics like the tempo, happiness, and energy of your music.
Receiptify is a great app to use in combination with Spotify. It lets you build your own receipt, which includes choosing a receipt name, and adding your favorite songs or albums. Your receipt has a neat layout with details like cardholder name (your name), quantity (rankings of your tracks, artists, or stats), items (top artists, tracks, and stats), and amount (length of song or popularity of artists). These receipts can then be downloaded as images and saved as a playlist to your Spotify library.
You can also log in with your Last.fm account to generate a music stats receipt.
Alongside these, there are many other third-party websites and apps that can give you a glimpse of your Spotify stats any time of the year in interesting ways, but we’ve highlighted our favorite options here. These stats can not only give you a glimpse of your listening habits but can also be a way to rekindle with artists or tracks that you may have lost in your evolving Spotify library.
