_{By Michael Luce}

Ah Spotify Wrapped — that wonderful week in early/mid-December when everyone’s social feed is filled with either bragging or lamenting about how big of a fan they are of some niche artist or song. It’s that sharing, connecting, and simply attaching numbers to your fandom that has made Wrapped (and all the similar recaps from Apple Music, YouTube Music, Soundcloud, etc) such a phenomenon.

Now, at this point in the year, Wrapped 2024 has likely already faded from your memory quite a bit, but I doubt that means you aren’t still more than eager to dive into your listening tastes, flaunt your unique style on social media, and perhaps even get embarrassed by your own habits. If you’re enough of a music nerd to follow this magazine, chances are you’re enough of a music nerd to be at least a little curious about what things look like year-round. If that sounds like you dear reader, you certainly aren’t alone.

I’ve spent years toying around with various apps and websites that play with your Spotify data, and I’m going to share a few of my favorites with you today. Side note: all of these are meant to work with Spotify data, though several do support other streaming services. Your milage as a non-Spotify user will vary.

How Bad is Your Streaming Music?

I’ll be sharing screenshots of my own personal Spotify throughout, so I figure I’ll go ahead and start with the site intended to hardcore judge your listening tastes so I can beat any haters to the punch.

How Bad is Your Streaming Music? has a pretentious AI analyze your listening habits and then roast you for it. The site is a few years old at this point, so this isn’t a gentle ChatGPT roast, this is a bot trained (according to the site) on indicators of objectively good music, the likes of which you’ve probably never heard of.

Spoiler alert: It’s a hard critic to please, and you’re unlikely to pass the vibe check. But hey, who among us is totally immune to having a bit of cringe in our listening habits? If nothing else, it’s good reminder to laugh at yourself a bit here and there.

Obscurify

If you’re looking for a slightly less judgemental option, Obscurify checks how your listening tastes shape up compared to listeners around the world and lets you know just how hipster you are in reality.

The site is packed with extra data not included in the screenshots above, including your favorite artists list; scores for happiness, danceability, energy, and acousticness; a decade breakdown; and will even store your data so you can see how it compares to logins from the past.

Icebergify

While Obscurify hits you with the stats of how unique and niche your tastes are, Icebergify takes all that info and boils it down to one easily digestible meme. It places a bunch of your top artists along an iceberg, with more popular artists up top and more rare picks in the lower levels. It’s one of the simpler sites here, but the image is certainly super shareable. It’s also funny to see where certain artists end up compared to expectations (why is Rush so low??).

Instafest

Similarly, Instafest turns your listening tastes into a hypothetical festival lineup, using your top artists as the main headliners. Sometimes this means you’ll have weird quirks, like disbanded groups on the lineup, or one really obscure artist headlining ahead of multiple major acts, but it’s all in good fun. One note if you do decide to share your “poster”: Just make sure your followers know this is fake. Instafest went a semi-viral a few years back and had a lot of people trying to find tickets to these insane lineups (who can blame them??), only to be disappointed when they found out it was not to be.

Receiptify

Our third entry in the easily-shareable image generator category, Receiptify turns your data into a crumpled receipt (which probably says something about how we view music and art as disposable commodities in the age of streaming, but I digress). The image can be customized based on artists, tracks, genres, general stats, as well as pull data from multiple timeframes. It might not be as pretty as a few of the other options, but you can’t deny it’s a vibe. There’s even a brat filter you can use if you’re into that.

Stats for Spotify

Moving away from visual-focused sites, these last two options are for the stats nerds, those who only care about the charts, the numbers, the rankings. The first, Stats for Spotify, offers a more streamlined look at the data the other sites are using. You can check out simple lists of your favorite artists, songs, and genres over the last four weeks, six months, and year. Like Obscurify, it can also store your info and track changes to your listening habits over time. It takes a few logins to start building that site history, but it is interesting to watch the changes as you revisit.

The one drawback is that like the other sites already listed, it uses data from Spotify’s taste algorithms, which tend to emphasize certain aspects of your listening habits instead of relying on raw numbers. So tracks at the start of playlists or albums may be slightly overrepresented in the data here. Those looking for hard numbers and facts are likely after our final entry today:

Stats.fm

If you’re an uber music nerd like myself, I’m sure you’ve been excited about some of the display options above and while intrigued by Stats for Spotify, have been waiting for something to really sink your teeth into and dissect your listening habits. Well my fellow dorks, this final entry is for you.

Stats.fm is an app that compiles all your listening data and reports it back with numbers (so you can see just how deep that Arianna Grande spiral in 2020 took you). While the free version presents a lot of the same info as what Stats for Spotify offers, the paid version unlocks a whole new world of data. As mentioned previously, Spotify only allows sites to access certain bits of data, limiting your analysis to either the last four weeks, six months, or year of listening. All of this data is then filtered through their own algorithms, meaning the data you’re seeing will be weighted towards what the platform thinks you like best instead of what the numbers have to say.

With Stats.fm Plus, you import your entire listening history (after requesting some data from Spotify themselves) and then gain access to EVERYTHING. I’m talking streaming history, leaderboards, custom timeframes, exact listening times, charts, graphs, and even comparisons with friends. You can sort by number of listens, time listened, or the Spotify-provided order, and each one offers a bajillion rabbit holes to dive down. They even make sharable graphics at the end of each month based on your stats.

This app is a music fanatic’s dream; I’ve been using it for years and it just keeps getting better. This isn’t sponsored, I promise — it’s just that good. (Note: The screenshots you see might be a bit different from the actual app, as I’m part of the beta testers, but you can see just how much data there is.)

Cleaning up your access

After you’re done playing around with all these sites, you can remove their access to your Spotify account by going to your account settings, scrolling down to “Security and privacy,” then clicking “Manage apps.” This will give you a list of everything that can access your account, and you can remove them as you wish.

Now go and share your immaculate tastes with the world! While you do so, give a listen to “Empire & the Sun” from The Moth & The Flame (who you may have seen pop up a few times in my listening history above).