How to see your Apple Music stats

We make Listenality, one of the apps named below. Every fact about other apps links to the page we checked on 2026-09-27.

Route 1: Apple Music Replay (built in)

Replay is Apple's own stats feature. According to Apple Support, once you have played enough music you can see your top songs, artists and albums every month, based on play count and time spent listening, plus milestones. At the end of the calendar year, Replay adds top genres, playlists and stations, play counts, listening time, a highlight reel, and whether you were among an artist's top 100, 500 or 1,000 listeners.

To open it, go to the Home tab in the Music app, scroll to Replay: Your Top Music and tap Go back in time. You can also sign in at replay.music.apple.com on a phone or computer. Replay only works if Use Listening History is turned on for every device you listen on (on iPhone: Settings, Apps, Music).

What Replay leaves out

• Custom date ranges. Replay groups by month and year. It does not show, say, last week or last summer.
• A dated play-by-play log. Replay includes an All Time playlist of your most-played songs, but it does not expose a timestamped record of every play. Apple Support describes the playlist.
• Why you are listening. It ranks what you played. It does not describe your taste, moods or eras.
• Anything outside Apple Music. If you also use YouTube Music or another service, Replay cannot see it.

Route 2: Apple's privacy export (dated plays in the file)

Apple lets you download a copy of the data tied to your Apple Account, and that copy includes your Apple Music play history. It is the most complete record you can get, but it arrives as spreadsheets, not charts.

1. Sign in at privacy.apple.com and choose Request a copy of your data (Apple Support).
2. Select Apple Media Services Information. Guides such as mystats.music note this is the only category you need for listening history.
3. Choose a file size and complete the request.
4. Wait. The same guide says Apple estimates up to 7 days.
5. When Apple emails you, download every part within 14 days. After that Apple removes the files and you must ask again (Apple Support).

Inside the download, the file most tools read is Apple Music - Play History Daily Tracks.csv, in the Apple Music Activity folder (mystats.music guide). You can open it in a spreadsheet, or hand the whole download to an app that reads it for you.

Apple keeps listening activity while your subscription is active and for up to two years after you cancel (Apple Music and Privacy). If you plan to leave Apple Music, request the export first.

Route 3: a stats app

Stats apps split into two camps. Some count plays from the day you install and never see anything earlier. Others read Apple's export to show your past. A few do both. Here is how the main options differ.

Apple's recently played feed is limited. Listenality uses it for ongoing trends; it cannot reconstruct a complete dated history from before connection. Historical library counters and previously saved scrobbles are different data sources, while Apple's export supplies retained dated playback events. An app that is opened often catches more plays than one opened rarely. PlayTally, for example, suggests an automated shortcut that opens it daily or weekly.

Where Listenality fits

When you connect Apple Music on iPhone, Listenality reads your saved Apple Music library and available add dates, and in a few minutes gives your top artists, genres, moods, eras, a musical personality and a roast. Every claim shows the songs behind it. From then on it builds a weekly recap every Friday and a monthly recap on the 1st. New listening is tracked through device play counts and Apple’s recent-play feed. Device counts cover saved tracks; the feed also picks up unsaved tracks. Coverage and exact timestamps vary by source.

If you import Apple's privacy export, Listenality reads the dated plays included in your export and reports how many it matches. Apple's play file has no artist field and no track ID, so matching uses the song name and album, and the import receipt tells you how many plays matched. Listenality is available on iPhone for Apple Music and YouTube Music, and on Android for YouTube Music.

Which route should you use?

• You want a quick look at this year: open Replay. It is free and already there.
• You want older dated playback events: request the privacy export today, since it takes days.
• You want to log new plays: compare a from-install tracker such as PlayTally and check its scan requirements.
• You want to understand your taste, with weekly and monthly recaps: try Listenality, and add the export for the past.