If you’re a music fan and avid Spotify user, one of the best times of the year is when the music streamer releases its annual Spotify Wrapped list — the long-awaited year-end preview that’s been running since 2016. It’s a fun trip down memory lane for the year that reveals interesting insights about everything what you listened to the most, including songs, albums, artists, genres and podcasts between January 1 and October 31 each year.
But why wait an entire year for all that data about your listening habits when you can hop over to a site like Stats for Spotify and peek at running lists of your most popular songs, top artists, and most popular genres you can view for the past four weeks, the past six months, and all the time. It will even show you your 50 most recent songs with timestamps.
Updated every day, the charts it throws up will also display up and down arrows to indicate rank changes over time – just like your own Billboard chart.
Logging in with your Spotify credentials gives the site access to usage data, and while it’s not as colorful and animated as Spotify Wrapped, Stats for Spotify is a great insight into what you’ve been up to, and will even let you create playlists on based on your most popular songs that are automatically synced to your Spotify so you can listen to them.
The statistics for Spotify, although bare, are free. There are several other apps and sites that mine the same data and offer additional features for a fee, such as Stats.fm and Volt.fm. Whether the extra features are worth it is up to you, but for now, we’re here to show you how to use Spotify statistics. It’s dead easy. Let’s go.
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Connect your Spotify account with Spotify statistics
In order for Stats for Spotify to mine all your listening habits, you must log in with your Spotify username and password.
Step 1: In a browser on your computer or smartphone, go to www.statsforspotify.comtarget=”_blank”> and select Sign up via Spotify button.
Step 2: Read the contract details and scroll to the bottom. If you’ve already signed in to Spotify on your device, you’ll probably see your Spotify icon because it’s already identified you. If so, just choose I agree.
Step 3: If not, you’ll see a screen with all the different ways you can sign in to Spotify. Choose the one you used — Apple, Facebook, Google, or with your email address and password. When you’re done, select Apply. You’re done and you’ll be taken back to the Spotify Stats home screen.
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View your Spotify stats
The menus are pretty simple. On the home page you will be able to choose The best songs, Top artists, The best genres, and Recently played.
Top Songs shows you the top 50 songs you’ve listened to in three categories: last 4 weeks, last 6 months and all time, all with album covers from their respective albums.
Top Artists also shows you the top 50 artists in the same three time frames, with pictures of the artists.
The Top Genres section is in the form of a bar graph that outlines the most listened genres of music, from pop to rock to hip-hop to special genres such as Oxford Indie and Roots Reggae. It also supplies the last 4 weeks, 6 months, and all-time lists.
Recently played is a simple list of the last 50 songs you listened to.
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How to make a playlist of your most popular songs
So you’ve scrolled down the list of most popular songs and think it might be a pretty good playlist. Pretty much the only interactive function on the site, it’s dead easy and can be done for last 4 weeks, last 6 months and all time lists, and if your usage is high enough, each list will have 50 records. Here’s how.
Step 1: Go to The best songs section from the top menu. It will open to last 4 weeks list, but choose a different one if you want.
Step 2: Scroll to the very bottom and select Create a playlist.
Step 3: It only takes a second and then you can choose View the playlist.
Step 4: If you’re using a desktop browser, Spotify will open in a new tab showing you your new Top Tracks playlist with the date in the title for easy navigation. You can, of course, change this.
If you’re on a smartphone, the Spotify app will open instead.
However it opens, you’ll be able to play your new playlist of all your most popular songs.
If you want to compare your most popular songs from Stats for Spotify to those from the last Spotify Wrapped, all you have to do is visit spotify.com/us/wrapped, log in and it will take you to your 2022 playlist. To enjoy!
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Source: newstars.edu.vn