Yes, you can see your top artists and top songs on YouTube Music, but not in one tidy all-time list the way Spotify shows them. The most direct spot is the "On repeat" stats on your own channel page, which list your most-played songs, artists, playlists, and music videos and refresh every day. Once a year you also get your Recap, and for a true count of your all-time most-played tracks you can export your history with Google Takeout.

If you came here expecting a Spotify-style screen with buttons for "last 4 weeks," "last 6 months," and "all time," that specific view does not exist on YouTube Music. What does exist is close enough for most people, and there are a couple of extra tricks for the folks who want the real numbers. Here is every place to look, from easiest to most thorough.

The most direct way: your "On repeat" stats

YouTube Music quietly added personal listening stats to your channel page, and this is the answer most searchers actually want. Open the YouTube Music app, tap your profile picture in the top right, and choose Your channel. Scroll down and you will find sections for songs, artists, playlists, and music videos you have "on repeat," with up to five items shown in each. Tapping through shows how many plays or how much time you have racked up. Google's own support page confirms these stats are built from your watch history across YouTube Music, the main YouTube app, YouTube on TVs and consoles, and casting, and that they refresh daily (YouTube Music Help).

So the honest answer to "can you see your top artists on YouTube Music" is yes. The "On repeat artists" list is your top artists, and "On repeat songs" is your top songs. When 9to5Google covered the rollout, it described the same four buckets, songs, artists, playlists, and music videos, sitting on your channel next to your Recaps (9to5Google).

What On Repeat does not do

Here is the catch, and it is worth being clear about because it trips people up. The On Repeat stats track what you have been playing recently and on a rolling basis. They are not a Spotify-style panel where you can flip between a four-week window, a six-month window, and your all-time favorites. There is no "top 10 most played songs on YouTube Music of all time" button hiding in the app. If you stop playing an artist for a while, they slide off the list as newer obsessions take their place.

These stats are private by default. YouTube Music later added the option to make them public so your channel can feel a little more social, similar to a public playlist. If you turn that on, the stats can appear on your channel for up to two years before rolling off, and you control each category individually under Settings, then Privacy & location, then Channel settings (9to5Google). Worth knowing if you would rather keep your guilty-pleasure artists to yourself.

Your annual Recap

Once a year, usually in late November, YouTube Music rolls out Recap, its version of the thing everyone calls "Wrapped." It is a set of shareable cards showing your most-listened artists, songs, and albums for the past 12 months, your total minutes, where your favorite artists come from, and an auto-generated playlist you can save. The 2025 edition also added an AI "ask about your listening" box that answers questions about your taste (TechRadar).

Recap is the closest YouTube Music gets to a clean, ranked "your year in music" summary. The downside is timing. It shows up for a few weeks around the end of the year and is mobile-app-first, so you cannot count on it in July when you suddenly want to know your top artists. When it is live, tap your profile picture and look for Your Recap. For the full walkthrough, including what to do when it will not load, see our guide to YouTube Music Recap.

Auto-playlists as a rough proxy

Between Recaps, YouTube Music's personalized playlists are a decent stand-in for "what I have been into lately." A few are worth knowing by name:

You will find these on the Home tab. None of them is a ranked chart, but scanning your Supermix or Replay Mix tells you pretty quickly which artists keep showing up.

Liked songs and subscriptions as signals

Two more places quietly hold clues. Your Liked songs playlist is a running record of everything you tapped the thumbs-up on, and while it is not sorted by play count, it is a strong signal of the artists you keep coming back to. Your subscriptions and library are similar. The artists you followed are, more often than not, your favorites. Neither is a stats screen, but together they help you reconstruct a top-artists list when you want one and the calendar is nowhere near Recap season.

The anytime option for your true most-played tracks

If you want real numbers, the kind that would let you build an actual "top 10 most played songs" list on any random day, you need your raw history, and the reliable way to get it is Google Takeout. Request a copy of your YouTube and YouTube Music data and you will get a watch-history.json file listing what you played and when. Count the entries per song and you have a true play-count ranking, no waiting for November.

This matters because the official YouTube Data API, the thing third-party apps connect to, exposes your liked videos, playlists, and subscriptions but not your minute-by-minute listening history or play counts. That is why the honest anytime methods lean on Takeout. Some listeners feed that history into a scrobbler so it lands in a service like Last.fm and gets counted going forward. If that idea is new to you, our explainer on what scrobbling is covers it, and our deeper walkthrough of how to see your YouTube Music stats shows the Takeout steps and the third-party tools people use.

Speaking of which, tools like FreeYourMusic advertise on-demand YouTube Music stats so you do not have to wait for the annual Recap (FreeYourMusic). They can be handy, just go in knowing that anything reading live "top tracks by play count" is working around the API limits, not pulling a number YouTube publishes.

Split your listening across YouTube Music and Spotify? Music Profile Viewer is a free way to see your Spotify side any day of the year. Open the Spotify profile viewer to pull up your Spotify top artists and tracks across every time range.

It signs in with official read-only Spotify access and stores nothing. It reads Spotify only, so it will not touch your YouTube Music history.

"Top songs on YouTube Music" can mean two different things

A quick clarification, because the search term is ambiguous. Some people typing "top songs YouTube Music" want their most-played tracks, which is everything above. Others mean the global charts, the most-streamed songs and artists in the world or in their country. Those live on YouTube's public charts site, where you can browse Top Songs and Top Artists by region (YouTube Charts). It is a fun read, but it has nothing to do with your personal listening. If you wanted your own top 10, stick with the On Repeat stats, Recap, or a Takeout export.

The bottom line

YouTube Music does show your top artists and songs, it just spreads them across a few places instead of one clean panel. For a quick check any day of the year, open Your channel and read your On Repeat stats. For the polished yearly summary, wait for Recap. For real, sortable play counts, export with Google Takeout. It is more roundabout than Spotify's neat three-window view, which is worth remembering if you split your listening across both apps. If you also use Spotify, you can pull up your Spotify top artists and songs any time with Music Profile Viewer, and our guide to seeing your Spotify stats walks through that side. For everything YouTube Music, the new YouTube Music hub collects these guides in one place.

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