Best 3 Ways to check YouTube Music stats

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November 4, 2024

Simply listening to music isn’t enough. Nowadays more and more people like to get accurate recaps of their listening habits and share on social media. Besides the yearly recap of your music listening Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music Replay, YouTube Music Recap, etc., people also adopts other scrobbling tools to track and compare listening history on an monthly or even daily basis. However, many people feels frustrating when realize how difficult it is to find a way to scrobble for Youtube Music. Especially Spotify has so many scrobbling tools.

Actually there are also some ways to scrobble for Youtube Music. Check them out.

Contenst

  1. Your channel page
  2. YouTube Music Recap
  3. Last.fm

1. Your channel page

Your channel page in YouTube Music allows you to view statistics and manage the visibility of your listening activity, including

  • Top tracks
  • Top Artists
  • Top Playlists
  • Top Music Videos
  • Personal Radio

To get to your channel page, open YouTube Music web player or app, select your profile icon – Your channel. Stats and personal radio are private information, you can also make them public. Your top music is based on your viewing history across all YouTube services. For example, frequently watching your favorite music videos on YouTube affects the popular tracks, artists, playlists, and music videos you see on the YouTube Music Your channel page. Your stats and personal radio stations are refreshed daily.

2. YouTube Music Recap

YouTube Music offers yearly and seasonal Recaps include personalized playlists and stats that bring together your top songs, artists, and more from the past year and season.

How to access YouTube Music Recap?

  1. Open the YouTube Music app on your mobile device and sign in to your account.
  2. Select your profile icon – Your Recap.
  3. To view your stories, tap Get your Recap. You can also download, or share the stories.

Note that YouTube Music Recap only includes your streamed music, not your downloaded music or uploaded music.

If you can’t find your YouTube Music Recap?

  • Make sure you have enough viewing history. You need at least 4 hours of music listening time on the YouTube platform each quarter and 10 hours of music listening time for the year-end review.
  • Your viewing history may currently be paused or was paused during the review time period. Check out YouTube Watch History settings here.
  • Make sure you haven’t set up auto-delete for activity older than 3 months. You can view the auto-delete settings here. If you’ve recently turned off auto-delete, you may still not see your recaps.
  • Recap is not available to users who primarily listen to children’s music.

3. Last.fm

You can’t connect YouTube Music to your Last.fm account directly like Spotify. On Android devices, you can use external scrobbling apps like Pano scrobbler, Scroball and Simple Scrobbler, etc. On iOS, use https://scrobbler.bocono-labs.com. On desktop, the solution is to use a third party YouTube Music desktop app with built-in last.fm integration or use Web Scrobbler for browser.

3.1 How to scrobble YouTube Music with Pano Scrobbler on Android?

  1. Open the Pano Scrobbler app and make sure you’re logged into your Last.fm account from within Pano Scrobbler.
  2. Choose YouTube Music from the “Scrobble from” section underneath.
  3. Now play songs from YouTube Music app and your songs will be scrobbled.

3.2 How to scrobble YouTube Music on iOS with Scrobbler?

Pano Scrobbler is not available on iOS. Luckily there is an alternative – Last.fm Scrobbler for YouTube Music. However, the service is currently unavailable due to recent changes in YouTube’s integration API. We will keep this updated.

You can also get Web Scrobbler for iOS and scrobble YouTube Music from web player.

3.3 How to scrobble YouTube Music with YouTube Music desktop app?

1. Download, install and run YouTube Music desktop app on your Mac.

2. Click the Settings icon on the top right corner. Click Integrations and toggle on Last.fm scrobbling.

3. You will be directed to last.fm, click YES, ALLOW ACCESS.

4. Relaunch YouTube Music Desktop App, check above settings and make sure “User is Authenticated” is marked as Yes. Now start streaming YouTube Music and Last.fm will start scrobbling YouTube Music.

3.4 How to scrobble YouTube Music with Web Scrobbler for browser?

Web Scrobbler is a browser extension designed for users who listen to music online through their browser and want to update their playback history using playback services such as Last.fm, Libre.fm and ListenBrainz.

  1. Download and install the extension for your browser. 
  2. Open the extension options, and go to the “Accounts” section, then sign in your Last.fm account.
  3. Go to music.youtube.com and start streaming. Web Scrobbler will scrobble the tracks and sync the data to Last.fm app or website.

How to get YouTube Music Premium for free after free trial?

If you’re looking to retain your downloaded content on YouTube Music Premium even after canceling your free trial, you’re in the right place. Pazu YouTube Music Converter offers a practical solution to preserve your YouTube Music downloads for offline playback even when your subscription is canceled. With Pazu YouTube Music Converter, you can save YouTube Music to MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, and M4A, all while maintaining the original audio quality.

Thanks to Pazu YouTube Music Converter, not only can you keep your favorite YouTube Music tracks indefinitely, but you can also enjoy these downloaded songs on any device without the need for the YouTube Music app. To learn how to retain your YouTube Music content after canceling your subscription, refer to the following tutorial.

It’s pretty easy. So, read on below to learn what you need to do.

1. Run Pazu YouTube Music Converter 

To get started, download, install and run Pazu YouTube Music Converter on your Windows PC, which features a built-in YouTube Music web player.

If you have already purchased a license, click the key icon to register the converter. If not, continue using the trial version.

YouTube Music Converter

You don’t need to sign in to your YouTube Music account.

2. Choose output format

The default output format is M4A. Pazu YouTube Music Converter also supports MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF. Click Option button to change output format or output folder if you need. You can also change bitrate, samplerate according to your needs.

YouTube Music Converter settings

3. Add songs

Browse or search to find the songs, albums or playlists you want to download. Click the album or playlist you want to download. Then click the red icon to load songs. 

choose YouTube Music playlists

All songs in the playlist/album will be selected by default. You can uncheck the songs you don’t want to get.

choose YouTube Music songs

4. Download Music from YouTube Music

After selecting the songs, click Convert button to start downloading YouTube Music songs to the format you choose. You will see a progress circle indicating your music is downloading.

convert YouTube Music to MP3

Once the songs have been downloaded, click the folder icon to quickly locate the DRM-free YouTube Music songs in the format you choose. You can then transfer and play it anywhere.

To view or manage all music you’ve downloaded, click the clock icon on the top right corner of the YouTube Music Converter interface.

The downloaded songs are playable whether you have YouTube Music Premium or not.

YouTube Music to MP3 converter