Last Updated or created 2022-09-13

Nice .. you can request a data export from spotify, much like google’s takeout.

I wil export your streaming history, playlists, library and more.

Login spotify on a desktop, goto privacy settings and request data.

Nice to generate some statistics from this data.

For now the top 50 played artists (nr of times, artist)

790     "Rammstein"
507     "Fred Morrison"
478     "Lincoln Hilton"
437     "Avicii"
420     "Shooglenifty"
347     "Treacherous Orchestra"
323     "Battlefield Band"
321     "Breabach"
295     "Nightwish"
254     "The Fraser Shaw Trust"
236     "Michael McGoldrick"
207     "Peatbog Faeries"
207     "Calum Stewart"
203     "Lúnasa"
197     "Martyn Bennett"
194     "Jeff Wayne"
193     "The Prodigy"
173     "Kíla"
172     "Ross Ainslie and Jarlath Henderson"
170     "Buena Vista Social Club"
153     "Ross Ainslie"
150     "Dàimh"
138     "Bliss"
125     "Hans Zimmer"
124     "Rare Air"
118     "Michael McCann"
107     "Kyle Tuttle"
107     "Beinn Lee"
105     "Bourne & Macleod"
 89     "Wolfstone"
 88     "Ímar"
 83     "Afro Celt Sound System"
 81     "Gordon Duncan"
 81     "Armin van Buuren"
 80     "Face The West"
 79     "Tyurgen Kam"
 79     "Aly Bain"
 72     "Keltik Elektrik"
 71     "Duncan Chisholm"
 66     "Liz Carroll"
 63     "Project Smok"
 63     "Blazin' Fiddles"
 62     "Dagda"
 61     "Trail West"
 59     "Julian Winding"
 57     "Solar Fields"
 57     "Dougie McCance"
 56     "John McSherry"
 56     "AES DANA"
 52     "Gaelic Storm"

Get top 50 script

 cat  *json | grep artistName  | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -50 | cut -f1,4,5 -d\" | sed s/,$//g