seven curious and original ways to visualize data about your music

There are authentic classics from the world of music that arrive as the year comes to an end: Mariah Carey’s Christmas carol and summary compilations like Spotify’s Wrapped are good examples.

We like musical statistics and there is no better proof than the furor caused by the summary of the year of the streaming music platform (judging by the massive dissemination on social networks), but although it is the official one, it is not the only one by any means. less: there is other different and varied ways to analyze your music statistics on Spotify.

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Stats for Spotify

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If what interests you are statistics and you don’t want to have to wait until the end of the year, Stats for Spotify is what you are looking for. This tool shows you in a clear and intuitive interface the most listened to songs, artists and genres organized into three periods of time (four weeks, six months, from the beginning) and probably the most interesting thing on a personal level: how your tastes have evolved. with the passage of time. Specifically, since the last time you used the tool.

How Bad is Your Spotify

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Sharing your musical statistics has a point of exhibitionism that can end in someone praising (or laughing at) your tastes. But you can also take it to another level and let it be an artificial intelligence that evaluates your taste, with quite bad droolby the way. This is precisely what it does How Bad is Your Spotifywhich by the way also works with Apple Music in a homologous way.

Spotify Pie

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If you like simplicity and clarity, Spotify Pie It analyzes your listening from the last month and organizes them in the form of the classic cheese pie chart, an easy way to share them. Below the graph, you will see which genres you listen to the most and your top artists of the month. This is a project created by UCLA student Darren Huang.

Instafest

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Instafest Show your listening to Spotify, Last.fm or a playlist in a very original way: as if they were a festival poster. So, the more you listen to a band or artist, the bigger it will appear on the poster and you can generate it from your listens from the last month, half a year or all time. Be careful because you can also change the aesthetics.

Receiptify

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Receiptify take your favorite and most listened to songs from the last month, half a year or all time and turns them into a purchase ticket for your musical taste with the tracks and their duration. You can use it with Spotify and Last.fm and if you scroll down, you will find all the options available for your ticket.

Icebergify

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Icebergify take the 50 bands/artists that you listen to the most now, in the medium and long term and organizes them based on their popularity as if it were an iceberg. An example: if you like Shakira you will probably see her at the tip of the iceberg, but if the person you always have on Spotify is something less mainstream like Chill Mafia, she will appear below.

Obscurify

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Following in the footsteps of the previous one, Obscurify tells you how “dark” your musical tastes are compared to other people, showing you your top five and evaluating parameters such as the happiness, danceability and energy of your most listened to music against other people’s.

Bonuses

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In order to visualize this data in a different way, it is necessary that Give permissions to access your Spotify accountalthough once you do it, your thing is to go to the Spotify settings and revoke access.

A previous version of this article was published in December 2023.

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