The best Spotify data resources
- tatimonty
- Mar 21, 2022
- 5 min read
Almost a year ago now, my friend and I published the second episode of our podcast, Casual Vibrations. The episode was titled "Spotify Data EXPOSED Us," and it was quite a fun one to record. Since we're coming up on its anniversary, I thought I'd make a comprehensive list of what I would consider to be the best resources to evaluate your Spotify data.
For you Apple Music users, a couple of these resources will work for you too, but not most of them.
For the sake of visual understanding, I'll be using screenshots from my own data, since I have nothing to hide about my music tastes, anyways.
Obscurify
Obscurify is my personal favorite -- I use it all the time. It's wonderful for pretty basic data, but also dives a little bit deeper too. Unfortunately, this one's just for Spotify users.
After you log in, you first are greeted with your 10 top genres, all of which you can click on and see your top three artists in each. I, for one, did not anticipate "post-teen pop" to be my eighth most listened to genre, but apparently it is!
Next up is your obscurity ranking. It looks at what you listen to and what others in your country (or others) listen to and compares them. How obscure is your taste in music? It even shows you a graph with your all time obscurity percentage, and your current one. The higher the percentage, the more obscure. Following the graph is your five most obscure artists and songs.
Then you've got top artists and songs. You can change the time period you're looking at, from current, to all time, to some time in between based on your last visit. It shows up to fifty artists or songs, and even has the option to create a playlist based on the top songs.
Then the site breaks down your moods and how they compare to other Spotify users. The moods include happiness, danceability, energy, and acousticness.
The last few sections are a decades breakdown -- which decades you've been listening to and how much -- a link to share with your friends, and then a bunch of suggested songs.
How Bad Is Your Streaming Music?
This one used to be just for Spotify, but it now works for Apple Music too.
If you remember the first summer of the pandemic, this one went huge. An AI analyzes your music habits and data and judges you. Its assessment can be pretty intense.
While its analyzing, it'll ask you a couple questions, like "do you really listen to ____?" or "you've been listening to ____ a lot lately, u ok?" or a fuck, marry or kill between three artists.
It then gives you a rundown on how exactly bad your taste in music is, what songs and artists you listen to too much, and how basic and trendy you are.
This one's genuinely usually good for a laugh. And perhaps some brutally honest feedback on your music from an AI.
Festify
This one's once again just for Spotify users. It takes your Spotify data regarding artists and creates your dream festival lineups. It gives you three options, last month, last 6 months, or all time. It's a super interesting one to look at, and then realize that you'll never see a festival lineup as amazing as that one, but you know what? That's okay. Wishful thinking and all that.
Colorify
For Spotify users only, as well, this one analyzes your top songs over the past six months or four weeks, plus your playlists. It gives you the color palettes for your top songs and also for your playlists. It also gives you your own color palette based on the colors that are most dominant (most common) among the album art of your recent top tracks. And then on top of all that, it recommends you songs based on your top singles. This one's a majorly aesthetic one, and quite fun to look at.
musicScapes
This one creates a landscape based on your Spotify data. It looks at the most common emotions in your music for the background color, the mode (major/minor) for the time of day, how energetic your songs are for the shape of the mountains, how active you've been over the past 24 hours for how many sets of mountains, and then what key your music is mostly in for the color of the mountains. It changes so often, so it's one that's always fun to go look at more often.
musictaste.space
This one allows Spotify users to compare their data to their friends or strangers. It also provides you insights, like top artists, the songs getting you through the pandemic, moods like happiness, energy, danceability, and acousticness, the top songs for each of those categories, top genres, etc. Its insights are very similar to those of Obscurify's, even using their algorithm to generate an obscurity rating.
It gives you a special username and link to share with friends to compare your Spotifys. You can also opt to keep your real username and photo hidden so you can share it with strangers and compare with them.
Skiley
This one can kind of do a lot.
It can work as a music player, allowing you to pause, skip, repeat, all of that, as well as see the lyrics, comments others have made about it, browse possible suggested meanings of the song, as well as see the video for it. It also tells you how popular the song you're listening to is.
It also allows you to look at your playlists and create a similar one, filter it by genre or year, order it, shuffle them, split them into another number of playlists, export or normalize them.
Skiley also has a discover function, which helps to find new music that's more tailored to you.
It can also rank your top artists, genres, and songs from the last few hours, last four weeks, last six months, and all time.
And lastly, it provides you with your listening history, what songs, when, and from what playlist or album.
Chart My Music
his one works for either Spotify or Last.fm. It gives you the option to either generate a collage based on songs or artists you listened to either in the short, medium or long term.
You can either generate a "rainbow" collage, or a create a collage to a specific photo.
Receiptify
This one's also one that gets around fairly regularly. It works for Spotify, Apple Music, and Last.fm. It generates your top 10 tracks from either the past month, the last six months, or of all time in the form of a receipt.
Whisperify
This one is particularly fun because it's mainly a game. It does give you an analysis, but so does so many other sites. But this one, this one's a game too.
It's pretty much a quiz -- you can choose specific playlists or just go off your top tracks. You can change the settings, but the standard is it plays 5 seconds of a song and you have 20 seconds to guess it. The faster you guess, the more points you earn. You've got 10 questions to try to get right.
Kaleidosync
This one doesn't analyze any data. It's just a music player, really. But it's such a pretty music player. You can choose from six presets of kaleidoscope backgrounds, as well as create your own variant. You can also find songs, artists and albums to play using it, but it doesn't allow you to choose from your own library or playlists, which is a downside. It's still a really unique and cool tool, however, in case you want a fun, mindless visual paired with your music.
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