topic Top Artists/Tracks API Returns Empty List in Spotify for Developers

Top Artists/Tracks API Returns Empty List

daviddhdev — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 01:06:28 GMT

Subject: Top Artists API Returns Empty List

Plan: Premium

Country: Spain

Device: N/A (Issue is API-related)

Operating System: N/A (Issue is API-related)

My Question or Issue:
I've been using the Spotify Web API to fetch my top artists using the /v1/me/top/artists endpoint with time_range=short_term. However, even after listening to music regularly for several days, the API still returns an empty list:

{  
    "href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/top/artists?time_range=long_term&locale=es-ES,es;q%3D0.9",  
    "limit": 0,
    "next": null,  
    "offset": 0,
    "previous": null,  
    "total": 0,  
    "items": []
}

I've tried the following troubleshooting steps:

Changing the time_range to medium_term and long_term
Waiting for a few days to see if the data updates

Despite these efforts, the API still returns an empty list. Is there a known delay or issue with how Spotify updates top artists/tracks? Or is there a minimum listening requirement before data appears? Must mention that it worked for a few hours the first day after the account creation, but then it stopped working.

Any help would be appreciated!

Re: Top Artists/Tracks API Returns Empty List

LambertSpot — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 11:47:29 GMT

Works for me when trying it on developer portal, request looks alright to me. Are you still having an issue here, or did it start working for you eventually?

Re: Top Artists/Tracks API Returns Empty List

daviddhdev — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 11:58:36 GMT

I tried building up listening time and followed several artists, but nothing changed. After a while, I gave up since the API (and developer portal) kept returning empty lists regardless of what I did. Not sure what went wrong, but I couldn’t get it to work.

Re: Top Artists/Tracks API Returns Empty List

LambertSpot — Fri, 09 May 2025 12:15:15 GMT

Now I see it, there is no `long_term`, only `medium_term` or `short_term`. Try changing that and do the request again!