I love music. I listen to music every single day without fail. Whether I’m in the car, at work or working on a project, I’ve got music playing and I have an affinity for singing along (much to the dismay of the people around me). Of course, there are a million different platforms to choose from. Youtube, Spotify, Apple Music, Soundcloud, Amazon Music and I could keep going. I personally like to use Spotify. It’s easy, streamlined and pretty cheap for a month by month subscription service. There’s also a ton of unique artists, podcasts and what everyone really uses Spotify for, Spotify Wrapped. The end of the year wrap up of what you’ve listened to throughout the year. Your most listened to songs, artists, genres, how much music you listened to, it’s awesome. I usually go through a million different genres and phases with music throughout the year so Spotify Wrapped is a lot of fun as a yearly trip through memory lane. But who wants to wait all year? I don’t! I like checking up on my music listening stats as the year progresses. So in today’s article, we’re going to talk about a bunch of different websites to explore your listening habits and different ways you can present them. 

Stats for spotify is a classic. It’s pretty cut and dry. Most of these programs are. They show you your top songs, top artists and top genres. It also gives you three time spans, the last four weeks, six months and your all time listening stats. I like Stats For Spotify because it’s simple but it gives you all of the stats that you get during your spotify wrapped but you can check it whenever you want.

Obscurify is probably my favorite. I am, at heart, a hipster. I love listening to weird, obscure and absolutely random music. I love to hop around through genres. If it’s weird and there’s only five copies in existence? You bet I’m going to listen to it. What I love about spotify is that you can find something normal and go down the rabbit hole to find stranger and stranger things until you end up listening to Czech Synth Wave from the 1980s. So, as a hipster, obscurify just reinforces my individuality complex. Obscurify will show you your most obscure artists, tracks and also some other stats like your happiest and most danceable tracks. If there’s any of these programs to use, I definitely recommend Obscurify. 

Zodiac Affinity is a bit more vague. It doesn’t show you your listening habits or organize them in any sort of unique format, it lets you pick any twelve of the zodiac signs and from there, shows you songs that would fit with that Zodiac sign. For those who are a bit more astrologically inclined, you can use your sun sign, moon sign and rising sign. It’s really interesting going through the various signs and seeing what songs get associated with each sign. 

How Bad Is Your Music is fun. Despite the fact that I am a total music hipster, I also know that I have an incredibly weird and strange taste in music. If I’m hanging out with friends and ask to play music, everyone looks me dead in the eye and says “Absolutely not”. So How Bad Is Your Music roasts the heck out of you. It “does not use real artificial intelligence, but a faux pretentious music-loving AI”. It’s mean and will call you out for your cringey, weird, guilty listens but in a way that feels like a teasing friend group. Despite the literal roast it puts you through, it’s still a really enjoyable way to look back at your music taste. 

Festify takes your music and your listening habits and it turns it into a festival poster. It has the same time span options of  the last four weeks, six months and your all time listening. It’s simple, cool and it makes for a cool instagram post. 

Icebergify takes the infamous iceberg meme format and surprisingly enough, if you couldn’t guess, gives you the choice of  the last four weeks, six months and your all time listening to turn into an iceberg. It goes from least obscure at the top to more and more obscure as the iceberg gradually goes deeper. Icebergify is cool because it gives some exposure to those weird underground artists while also adding a different format to things.

Recieptify puts your listening habits into a receipt format. You’re once again given time span options with the last four weeks, six months and your all time listening. I like reciepitfy because it could honestly pass for a real receipt. If I was quickly scrolling through my instagram feed and saw this? I would miss it and shrug it off as a plain old receipt. But it’s another thematic way of sharing your music taste and one that I love to check up on every so often. 

I love spotify and I love finding out about my random listening habits. It’s really cool to wait until the end of the year to see how my listening habits have changed from January until December however, I’m also ridiculously impatient so there’s tons of value in using these various services to look at my statistics and to share my listening habits and even music recommendations with my friends. I think that it’s really interesting seeing how my listening habits have changed over the years. As each year passes, I save each playlist from my Spotify wrapped because I find that my music taste has changed with different experiences and as my life changes. From my emo music phase in grade 8, shifting into a musical phase in grade 10 to changing to what it is today which is a chaotic mix of folk, 80’s music and rock. So, if you’re anything like me. A music loving, analytical nerd, I would definitely recommend checking out some of these programs and sharing your music taste with your friends.