Top Artists/Tracks API Returns Empty List

[daviddhdev]

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!

[LambertSpot]

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?

[daviddhdev]

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.

[LambertSpot]

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