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I love Spotify Wrapped, as do most Spotify users. The stats are fun to look at, and it’s great to compare your data with your friends and family. When Wrapped rolls out towards the end of November each year, my socials are filled with people comparing their most listened-to tracks and artists, or marveling at how Spotify classifies genres, with some truly wild word-salad combos.
But it’s just not enough.
I wanted to know about all of my Spotify stats; just how much Spotify have I listened to since I created my account? That’s where Spotigraph, the Spotify Data Visualizer, comes in.
The Spotify Data Visualizer is the ultimate version of Spotify Wrapped
It’s time to see everything you’ve listened to, ever
Most Spotify users have had the question once: how many minutes of music have I streamed on Spotify, ever? Or, what was my favorite album and song a decade ago?
Spotigraph is the solution you’ve been waiting for. It takes your extended Spotify listening history and turns it into a customizable graph spanning the ages, letting you delve into that giant Spotify nostalgia pool you’ve been dying to dive into.
Download your extended Spotify Account data
This process can take a few days to complete
The Spotify Data Visualizer requires your full Spotify listening history. Depending on how long you’ve been using Spotify, this can take a day or two to prepare. You also need to request this data through your Spotify account in a web browser. It’s not accessible through the Spotify desktop or smartphone app.
- Head to your Spotify account.
- Then, head to Account > Security and Privacy > Account Privacy.
- Scroll down to Account Data and select Select Account data.
- Next, underneath, select Select Extended streaming history. Note that this section warns “Preparation time 30 days,” but mine was delivered within 48 hours.
- Once selected, scroll down and select Request data.
You’ll receive an email on your linked Spotify profile when the data is ready. Download the file, and you’re ready to go.
You don’t need to extract the data from the archive for the next part of the process to work.
How to use the Spotify Data Visualizer to see everything you’ve ever listened to
You’re about to step back in time—I hope you had good taste
Once you have your data, head over to the Spotify Data Visualizer. This is where the fun really begins.
Drag your Spotify data file into Spotigraph and drop it onto the area marked Click to upload or drag and drop.
The magic starts almost immediately, as your entire listening history begins to whizz past your eyes. Spotigraph’s bars start populating the screen, starting from the moment you created your Spotify account. I’ve been using my Spotify account for 14 years, so there is a fair amount of music to trawl through, though I was a more sporadic user in the early years, before I had a Premium account. The video below shows my entire history from start to finish.
It also highlights how I get really stuck on certain songs, or where they are typically placed in playlists, often at the top. One of my top listened-to songs, Raphael Treza’s Noizy Birdz, is the first track on my go-to Spotify concentration playlist, so it gets played all of the time. My absolute top track (which I wasn’t expecting), Todd Terje’s Inspector Norse features on several of my go-to playlists, frequently appears on Spotify’s Daylists, and is served up by Spotify’s AI DJ.
I find my all-time listening stats for artists interesting, too. Like the songs, specific artists capture moments in your life, and it’s nice to look back on that. Really, though, it shows that over time, my listening has become more siloed into fewer genres, and I’m probably not as experimental as I once was.
For me, it also shows that I used to listen to albums more thoroughly; these days, I tend to use Spotify’s various playlists and listen to many different single tracks, rather than sitting down and really engaging with the music properly. In itself, that’s telling. I was at a tech show with a friend, and he talked about listening to music as a specific activity, rather than as the side-dish to your daily life. It’s something I haven’t done for a long while, and Spotigraph is a great way to try and visualize how to fix it.
Fair warning, though, the artist data takes much longer to run than the songs. It took around 13 minutes for mine to complete. I’d guess that’s because the number of artists listened to on Spotify is really quite vast, especially if you use a lot of different playlists, genres, and so on. Still, it’s worth the wait. I’m genuinely blown away that I’ve listened to Kolsch for 62 hours.
Oh, and if you’re worried it’ll show all podcasts, don’t: the developer has specifically filtered out podcast content to show you just the music.
It’s not just about the all-time Spotify listening stats
What did you listen to on those big days?
I don’t know if the original creator of Spotigraph envisioned this, but one way I really like to use this data is to find out what I was listening to during some of the important moments in my life. Like, what tracks was I listening to on the day my kids were born? How about the day I got married, or when I turned 30 a few years back?
It’s a cool way to glimpse your musical past, when figuring out these small details are easily lost to time.
Give Spotigraph a try, and you’ll see your musical past
What will you uncover?
I’ve tried quite a few different apps that promise to reveal your full Spotify listening history, but Yobeast’s (the developer) is the first I’ve found that gives such a detailed view.
With that said, there are some improvements that would be super useful.
- Export the top 15 tracks and albums to a new Spotify playlist
- Show the artist for each song
- Scroll down to see more data. Once it’s gone from the screen, you can’t see it anymore, but it’s still being processed.
- Maybe something that shows us specific genres of music
Overall, Spotigraph is a great way to visualize your entire Spotify history. It’s almost like Spotify Wrapped cranked up to 11, and it really makes me wonder why Spotify hasn’t bothered rolling out a tool like this. It would be an instant hit!
