If you’re deep into your Spotify stats, you should know that a host of third-party apps and websites have sprung up, ready to give you a new perspective on the music you listen to and how you listen to it – and maybe some insights to reveal that may surprise you.
Every year we see Spotify take its own deep dive into its users’ listening histories in the form of Spotify Wrapped, but that’s just the beginning of what’s possible. By connecting one or two or more of these web apps to your Spotify library, you can create all sorts of weird and wonderful breakdowns of your music.
Here we’ve picked out 7 of the best tools you can link to your Spotify account and see your listening habits in a different way – and the more time you spend on Spotify, the more detailed these insights are.
1. Statistics for Spotify
Statistics for Spotify tells you pretty much everything you need to know about it in the name: you get a comprehensive overview of everything you’ve listened to on the streaming service in seconds, just by clicking the button Log in with Spotify knob.
After you have logged in, you can choose from Top songs, Top artistsAnd Top genres. In any case, you have the option to view data from the last four weeks, the last six months, or since you opened your Spotify account (which could be well over a decade).
The site also gives you a reason to keep coming back, as it can show you changes in map positions since your last visit. In addition, you have the option to export all the charts you see as playlists, which you can then listen to through the Spotify apps.
2. How bad is your streaming music?
For an ironic look at your listening habits, try the How bad is your streaming music? place. It’s not just for Spotify as you can also link your Apple Music account to it, but the features are the same no matter which account you use.
The site is apparently powered by a “sophisticated AI” trained on data from well-known trendsetters in music – we’re not sure how true that is, but the questions we got about the more questionable parts of our listening history made us wonder smile, at least.
For example, we were asked if we were listening to the Killers “ironically” or not, and we got several other sarcastic comments. At the end of the analysis process, you will be told how bad your taste in music is in an entertaining and imaginative way.
3. Last.fm
One of the reasons you may want to use this Last.fm to analyze your Spotify listening history is that it also supports all kinds of other music streaming services. If you want a central place where all your music habits come together, Last.fm might just be the place to be.
Once you link Spotify and other streaming services to your Last.fm account, there are heaps of listening stats for you to browse. You can view the breakdowns by artist, album and song, by recent history or by multi-year periods.
Another thing Last.fm does really well is recommending new music you might like, based on what you already have in circulation. Like the new Spotify AI DJ, it’s a great way to discover artists you might not otherwise come across, thanks to the Last.fm algorithm.
4. Darken
Darken is a tool for those who like to think their music taste is a level above average: it analyzes your Spotify history and tells you how non-mainstream your choice of artists and genres are, compared to their popularity across the country Spotify .
Dig further into the data and Obscurify can tell you about the average mood of the songs you listen to, and whether it’s getting happier or sadder. Your listening habits are also ranked according to their energy level, danceability and acoustics, so there’s a lot to discover.
The site will tell you which of the songs and artists in your Spotify record are the most obscure, and will even provide some appropriate niche recommendations that you might want to check out at the end, helping your library become even more eclectic.
5. Spotify pie
We’ve written before about how Spotify Pie can create a pie chart of your listening habits on Spotify, and with this particular site, the main focus is on the genres you’ve been sticking to lately: rock, electronica, garage, dance, pop, or whatever it is.
Using the site couldn’t be much easier and all you have to do is click the big green button to start the login process. In a few seconds, your pie chart will appear showing all the genres you’ve listened to on Spotify in the past month.
Spotify can be quite specific when it comes to music genres, so you may end up with thinner pie slices than you expected. You can remove a slice from the map by clicking on its label. Below the cake is a list of the artists you’ve listened to the most.
6. Sort your music
Sort your music will do just that, organizing your Spotify playlists based on a number of criteria: tempo, volume, danceability, popularity, valence (mood), and more. To get started and leave the app with your Spotify stats, click the green login button in the middle of the screen.
You will then be prompted to choose one of your existing Spotify playlists, after which the sorting can begin. At the top of the screen, you’ll see the available criteria, from the year a song was released to the number of beats per minute. Click a column header to sort the playlist.
Playlists can also be sorted in ascending and descending order, so you can start with the slowest or fastest songs. When sorting is complete, you can optionally save the results as a new playlist, which will then be available through your Spotify account.
7. Icebergs
Icebergs may seem like a strange name for a Spotify plugin, but that’s exactly what it does: it creates an iceberg-like representation of the music you’ve been listening to on the service, ranking the artists you like based on how popular (or otherwise) they are.
Click the Create yours button, confirm that you want to allow the site to access your Spotify data, and your iceberg will appear. The site starts with your iceberg from the last month, but you can follow the on-screen link to see your all-time Spotify iceberg instead.
The site uses popularity on Spotify as a way of interpreting how obscure or mainstream artists are. The well-known artists you listen to a lot are above the waterline and the lesser-known artists below, so you can see how unusual your taste in music is.