6 Ways to Analyze Your Spotify Listening Habits

Seeing your Spotify Wrapped playlist at the end of the year is always a fun treat, where you get insights into which artists, tracks, genres, and more took over your playlists for the year.

But if you can’t wait until December to get your hands on your music insights, we’ve rounded up the best third-party apps to connect with Spotify and explore your listening habits.

1. Visualify

Kicking off the list is Visualify, which summarizes your basic listening history with simple, easy-to-read visuals. This app will show you the top five artists and tracks you’ve listened to in the past month, past year, and of all time.

While the information displayed is easy to understand, the insights are on the limited side. You won’t be able to see your sixth most listened to artist, and there isn’t anything available to give you insights on other aspects of your listening history, such as genre or mood.

One of the coolest things about this site is that you can also create your own artwork based on the top artists and tracks you’ve listened to and order a museum-quality physical poster. The View Artwork button generates a poster of album covers.

You can customize the design with different options for collage layouts, such as a grid or a vinyl wheel. You can also choose which album covers to include. These posters have a starting price of $25 and free worldwide shipping.

Overall, this is a great website to visualize your listening habits at a glance and to get a keepsake personalized to your music taste.

2. Obscurify

If you’re looking for a comprehensive look at your music taste, then Obscurify is one of the best platforms to see your recent listening habits and how they compare with others in your country.

Starting with the basics, the site tells you what your top ten genres are, as well as the top 50 current artists and tracks you’ve been listening to the most. You also be able to dive into your listening history and see your top artists and tracks from previous months and of all time. Lastly, turning your top tracks into a playlist is as easy as clicking a button.

On top of that, Obscurify also gives you an obscurity percentage that shows you how obscure your music taste is compared to others in your country and globally. You can see where you rank on the chart, and which artists you listen to are the most obscure. It also compares the moods of your music to others in your country, which include Happiness, Danceability, Energy, and Acoustincness.

Lastly, you get recommendations for new music based on your current taste. You can turn them into a new Spotify playlist, or keep refreshing the recommendations until you find some songs that are playlist-worthy.

3. Musictaste.Space

Music is better with friends, and that’s exactly what this website is perfect for. On Musictaste.Space, log in and send a unique link or user code to your friends to take a look at your music compatibility. You’ll be able to see what percentage of music the two of you listen to are similar, as well as your top artists and tracks in common. This comparison is based on the top 100 artists and tracks that the two of you have listened to.

Not only does it summarize your music compatibility, Musictaste.Space also generates a playlist based on the music that both of you like. This feature is only available if you score compatibility of 50% or more.

Of course, you can also take a peek into your own listening history with a handy summary dashboard on your top artists and tracks, moods, and level of obscurity using Obscurify’s algorithm. You can dive deeper into your music habits and see what your top 30 artists and tracks are recently in comparison to all-time. You can also see a seasonal summary for the top 30 tracks you listened to during half of the year.

Overall, this is the best app to enjoy and share with friends, and you will likely be surprised by some of the insights the compatibility test uncovers.

4. Judge My Spotify

Every wanted to know just how bad your music taste is? Well, now is your chance to have your listening history roasted by Judge My Spotify. This website is here for some lighthearted fun, so keep that in mind no matter how specific and creative the insults might get.

As your Spotify library gets loaded into the website, experience snarky commentary from the AI while your music score continues to drop with every question. This can range from asking if you were listening to a song ironically, or if you’re actually a fan of a certain artist.

The final result is an insult-driven summary of what type of music you listen to the most, and it lets you know what tracks and artists you listen to way too much.

While you won’t get the clearest summary of what your top tracks or artists are, and some of the results are not as current as of the other websites on the list, this is a great website for some quick fun.

5. musicScapes

Generate a colorful landscape based on your Spotify listening with musicScapes, which uses information from what you’ve been listening to in the past 24 hours.

This website doesn’t show you stats on your favorite artists or tracks, but focuses on other aspects of the music you listen to such as the emotions, energy, and key of the songs in your recent listening history. It also lets you know how active of a listener you have been.

This information is transformed into the colors you see, the jaggedness of the mountains, the number of mountains in the scene, and the time of day.

This is a great website to take a look at some more unique insights on your listening habits and get a cool landscape picture out of it.

6. Last.fm

Last, but certainly not least, Last.fm is the ultimate third-party app to go deep into your listening habits. This site is a lot more complex than the others on our list and requires you to make an account and then connect your Spotify to it.

Every time you play a song, it gets logged as a "scrobble". You can take an in-depth look at every single song you've played, how many times you've Scrobbled a track or an artist, and more. With a free account, you have access to the weekly report of your listening habits, which breaks down all your activity into statistics.

You can see your top artists and tracks and exactly how many times you played each. It also shows you how many artists, albums, and tracks you listened to in the week, your most active hour for listening, a timeline of your genre rankings, your average listening time, and more. There is a ton of information you can get out of Last.fm.

This is a great website if you're a huge music enthusiast and want to get into deep and specific statistics. It is also available for users of different music streaming platforms, and you can follow friends and compare your listening regardless of if they're a Spotify user or not.