How to Connect Last.fm to Spotify

Spotify is the easiest thing to scrobble, because Last.fm has a built-in connection for it. Once you set it up, every track you play on Spotify gets logged to your Last.fm profile automatically. You do not need a plugin, a desktop app, or any manual work. Here is how to turn it on, what to expect once it is running, and how to get it working again if your plays ever stop showing up.

Quick answer: the connection lives on the Last.fm side. Sign in to Last.fm in a browser, open Settings, go to the Applications tab, find Spotify, and click Connect. Approve Last.fm on Spotify's authorization screen, and scrobbling starts on your next play.

Connect Spotify to Last.fm

You do this from the Last.fm side, in your account settings. It takes about a minute:

1. Sign in to your account on last.fm in a browser.
2. Go to Settings, then the Applications tab.
3. Find Spotify in the list and click Connect.
4. Spotify opens and asks you to authorize Last.fm. Approve it.
5. That is it. Scrobbling starts on your next play.

From now on, songs you play on Spotify show up on your Last.fm profile within a minute or two. You do not need to keep the Last.fm site open, and you do not need to repeat this on every device. The link is tied to your two accounts, not to the browser you set it up in.

If you do not see Spotify in the Applications list, make sure you are signed in to the correct Last.fm account first. The list shows every service Last.fm can connect to, and Spotify sits among them with a simple Connect button next to it. There is no separate app to install and no settings to change inside Spotify itself, since all of the work happens on the Last.fm side.

A few things to know

The connection is simple, but a few details are worth knowing so your history looks the way you expect:

• Play on any device. Once connected, Spotify scrobbles from your phone, desktop, or web player, as long as you are playing on the same Spotify account.
• It only counts finished plays. A track scrobbles once you have listened to roughly half of it, so skips and quick previews do not clutter your history.
• Podcasts do not scrobble. Last.fm tracks music, not podcasts or audiobooks, so those plays are simply ignored.

Because scrobbles fire on real, finished plays, your Last.fm history becomes an honest record of what you actually listen to rather than everything you tapped. That is what makes the numbers useful later, when you look back at your most played artists and albums over months. If you want the full background on what a scrobble is and how the count works, our guide on what is scrobbling walks through it in plain language.

If Spotify stops scrobbling

If your plays stop showing up, the fix is almost always to reconnect. The link can quietly break, and re-authorizing it puts everything back in place:

1. Go back to Settings, then Applications on Last.fm.
2. Disconnect Spotify, then Connect it again and re-authorize on Spotify's screen.
3. Make sure you are playing on the same Spotify account you connected.

A changed password or a long-idle connection can quietly break the link, and reconnecting fixes it in almost every case. If plays still are not landing after that, our deeper checklist for when Last.fm is not scrobbling covers the less common causes.

See your Spotify listening two ways

Once Spotify is scrobbling, Last.fm becomes your long-term history across every device. Our Last.fm stats viewer lays that history out cleanly from any username, so you can see your top artists, tracks, and albums at a glance without digging through the Last.fm site.

And if you want your live Spotify stats without Last.fm in the middle, our Spotify profile viewer connects to Spotify directly and shows your top artists and tracks across three time ranges. It uses Spotify's official read-only login and stores nothing, so the two tools cover both the long view and the right-now view of your listening.