You can now see your most-played songs on Spotify at any moment of the year — styled like a shop receipt. Yes, there's no need to wait until Spotify Wrapped to find out who has been dominating your playlists in the last few weeks.
Dubbed, this is a new web app that transforms your listening habits into a unique, shareable receipt of your most played music. This free tool connects to your Spotify, Apple Music or Last.fm account to generate a visual summary of your musical preferences. The service presents your 10 most frequently played songs in a familiar receipt layout, complete with itemised listings.
The concept draws inspiration from the popular Instagram account and has gained popularity amongst music enthusiasts seeking a novel way to visualise their listening habits. Users can generate these musical receipts to share on social media or simply satisfy their curiosity about their own listening patterns.
Apple Music natively includes a similar feature, thanks to its . Music Replay feature highlights your most-played songs for each month of the year, giving you a personalised look at the music you’ve listened to the most. This feature is available within the Music app and is applied retroactively for every month that held an Apple Music subscription.
There's also a playlist with your 100 most-played songs of the year available, which is updated throughout the course of the year. This is a different approach to Spotify Wrapped, which doesn't offer access to its equivalent playlist until it makes Wrapped available worldwide. This annual personalised recap shows Spotify users their most listened-to songs, artists, genres, and podcasts from the past year. It’s presented in a fun, shareable format with colourful graphics and interactive stories, giving listeners a snapshot of their unique music habits and trends. However, it doesn't offer a month-by-month breakdown with individual playlists for each.
When you access Receiptify, you'll discover it can analyse your listening history across three distinct timeframes: the previous month, the past six months, and your all-time favourites. Each track appears as a line item on your personalised receipt.
Receiptify's system retrieves this information directly from your chosen streaming platform's data. However, it can't take all the necessary information to provide all of its features from some streaming platforms.
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The numbers displayed alongside artists represent their popularity ratings, ranging from one to 10. A rating of one indicates lesser-known artists, while 10 signifies mainstream performers with widespread recognition.
For genre statistics, the figures show how frequently each musical style appears amongst your top 50 artists. This provides insight into whether you're predominantly listening to one genre or enjoying a diverse musical palette.
The system retrieves this information directly from your chosen streaming platform's data. However, it can't take all the necessary information to provide all of its features from some streaming platforms.
For example, if you're an Apple Music subscriber, you'll notice the tool cannot display tracks by specific time periods, instead showing only "Heavy Rotation" data from an unspecified timeframe. If you already take advantage of Apple Music's Top Tracks feature, though, then you may not really be missing out on Receiptify's offerings.
Spotify users face a different limitation — while the platform provides listening statistics, it doesn't reveal how many times you've played each track. Only Last.fm users can access this play count information.
If you already take advantage of Apple Music's Music Replay feature, you'll notice it already has similar offerings to Receiptify
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It's worth noting, technical difficulties occasionally arise when too many users access the service simultaneously. If your receipt fails to appear, Receiptify recommends refreshing the page repeatedly, clearing your browser's cookies and site data, or switching to another device.
The developer, who identifies as a full-time student, acknowledges that expanding Receiptify to additional streaming platforms remains challenging. While they express interest in supporting more services, academic commitments limit their availability for such developments.
They also note that certain streaming platforms lack accessible APIs for retrieving listening data, which is a set of tools and protocols that allow developers to create software that is accessible to users with disabilities. This would make official integration with the music apps impossible as a result.