topic Songs Play count in Spotify for Developers

Songs Play count

ajayprudential — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 09:09:23 GMT

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue :

Is there's a way we can get the information from developers API regarding how many times a particular track has been played. Basically play count information of a track.

Kindly reply if anyone has any idea on this.

Thanks.

Re: Songs Play count

spencerwasden — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 18:39:01 GMT

This was a highly upvoted feature in the now-archived Spotify web-api repository with hundreds of votes!

https://github.com/spotify/web-api/issues/70

Re: Songs Play count

uh_itsnathaniel — Sat, 29 May 2021 00:51:39 GMT

It's a bummer that the suggestion's been archived. I did some digging within the Web API and turns out *somewhere* there IS a counter for a track's total plays, but I don't know how to access it because I think it's a lower-level variable within an algorithm that returns the 'popularity' float. Here's the specific page for reference. I also attached the entry as an annotated screenshot below. It's pretty far down there, as 'popularity' is mentioned like 44 times, or something like that.

I speculate it's not accessible yet because it has something to do with the multiple instances of an individual release due to the multiple regions that a song is released in. I don't know a lot about this, but part of me wonders "Why not give us a function that simply returns the sum of playback count in all regions according to a song's ID/spotifyUri?" I hear they're powered by the Google Cloud Platform, so why not lean into their tools for help with this? Idk. I don't know the nuances of their database schema or the extent to which they use GCP. Nevertheless, I might try to play around with this. I was hoping to create a live update counter as a flex for my own artist website. We'll see how that goes. I'll continue to dig!

Re: Songs Play count

uh_itsnathaniel — Sat, 29 May 2021 01:28:29 GMT

Update!

I've finally found THIS article! Turns out there's a new professional SaaS that consolidates all this information for you. They've got a custom subscription plan specifically for API access! I have yet to learn more, I've just emailed about it and will get back to this thread when I do!

Here's their API documentation.

Re: Songs Play count

rodion-m — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 12:22:09 GMT

Hey Spotify Team! This feature is really needed. What prevents you from implement this?

Re: Songs Play count

EDHMix — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:46:49 GMT

Found a new API that returns the play counts:

https://rapidapi.com/music-metrics-music-metrics-default/api/spotify-track-streams-playback-count1

Re: Songs Play count

kaylinaurora — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:47:00 GMT

If they give users this kinda data, it keeps them from having any kinda exclusivity around their "this year wrapped" feature. They are financially motivated to not give us what we want in this case, which is unfortunate. I'd recommend using something like last.fm to keep up with your metrics.

Re: Songs Play count

karaon — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 20:35:39 GMT

Re: Songs Play count

Kazymandias — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:23:37 GMT

That's easy:

The structure of corporate bureaucracy, where the decision-makers don't have expertise in interface design or music, just a business degree...a thing that, frankly, not only doesn't render them competent, but should DIS-qualify them.