How to See Your Apple Music Listening History

Apple Music Recently Played: what you played last

On iPhone or iPad, open the Music app and go to the Home tab. Recently Played appears below Top Picks. On a Mac, click Home in the Music app’s sidebar to find music you recently played.

For the songs you played just before the current one, open Now Playing, tap the Playing Next button, and swipe down to reveal your play history.

Recently Played is a quick way back to something you just heard. It isn’t a full log with dates and times.

See your top music with Apple Music Replay

Replay turns your listening history into rankings. Open the Home tab, scroll to “Replay: Your Top Music,” and tap “Go back in time,” or visit replay.music.apple.com. You’ll see your top songs, artists, and albums each month, an All Time playlist of your most played songs, and, at the end of the year, play counts and time spent listening. Our Apple Music stats guide covers Replay in detail.

Replay depends on a setting called Use Listening History. Apple says that turning it off makes Apple Music ignore your listening habits for recommendations and Replay playlists. To check it on iPhone, go to Settings → Apps → Music.

Download your full Apple Music listening history

Apple’s Data and Privacy site lets you request a copy of the data associated with your Apple Account. It’s the only way to get your listening history from Apple as a file.

1. Go to privacy.apple.com and sign in with the Apple Account you use for Apple Music.
2. Choose “Request a copy of your data.”
3. Select the data you want to download. Apps that import this file, such as stats.fm, point you to the Apple Media Services category, which covers Apple Music.
4. Choose a maximum file size and submit the request.
5. Wait for Apple’s email. Apple says preparing your copy may take up to seven days, which it uses to verify that the request came from you.

Apple delivers app usage and activity information as spreadsheets or files in .json, .csv, or .pdf format. Apple’s Apple Music privacy notice says it records the time you played a song and for how long, so the export is the most complete record Apple offers. Spreadsheets aren’t easy reading, though, so many people import the file into a stats app.

Keep your listening history from now on

Waiting a week for a data export isn’t a practical way to check your history. The better approach is to keep your own record as you listen.

Scrobble to Last.fm. Last.fm keeps a permanent, timestamped history of everything you scrobble, with charts of your listening. Apple Music can’t scrobble on its own, but Marquee scrobbles every song you play in it for free. See how to scrobble Apple Music to Last.fm.

Use Marquee’s stats. Marquee’s Library Insights starts from your library’s lifetime play counts, then tracks your listening from the day you install, so windows like Last Week and Last Month fill in over time. Every Sunday, Your Week recaps your hours, plays, and top artist.