How to see your Spotify listening history

You are a voracious devourer of music, podcasts and audiobooks on Spotify. The world’s most popular music streaming service has more content than you know what to do with, and it’s easy to lose track of everything you’ve listened to. Maybe you’ve gone down the Steely Dan rabbit hole, listened to an entire season of […]

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How to see your Spotify listening history

You are a voracious devourer of music, podcasts and audiobooks on Spotify. The world’s most popular music streaming service has more content than you know what to do with, and it’s easy to lose track of everything you’ve listened to.

Maybe you’ve gone down the Steely Dan rabbit hole, listened to an entire season of SmartLess, or simply lost track of all the cool new music your teenage daughter recommended. It doesn’t matter why you might need to take stock of your Spotify listening history: the fact is that it’s easy to do on your smartphone/tablet and in the desktop Spotify apps. Here’s how.

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how to find your Spotify listening history on the mobile app

The Spotify app will archive your listening history for up to 70 days. Here’s how to access it on the smartphone and tablet applications.

Step 1: Take your smartphone or tablet and open the Spotify app.

2nd step: In the upper left corner, select your profile icon.

Step 3: Then select Listening history.

Step 4: Form here, under Played recentlyyou’ll find everything you’ve been listening to: artists, albums, playlists, songs, podcasts, audiobooks, audiobook chapters, and much more.

Step 5: You can either play the content from here or tap the three dots on the right to select a different action, like add to playlist, share, view album, etc.

how to find your Spotify listening history on the desktop app

Finding your Spotify listening history is just as easy on the Spotify desktop app, but in this case it only lets you see the last 50 tracks you’ve listened to. Here’s how to access it.

Step 1: Open it Spotify desktop app on your computer.

2nd step: At the bottom right, select the Queue icon (it looks like a small pill with two lines underneath).

Step 3: A pane will open on the right side and at the top you will see Queue And Played recently. Select the latter.

Step 4: Below, you’ll see the latest 50 songs, podcast episodes, audiobooks, and more that you’ve listened to.

Step 5: Again, you can either play a selection or hover over a selection and click the three-dot drop-down menu for more options.

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