Yes, you can see YouTube Music stats. The app has a built-in "On repeat" section that shows your top songs, artists, playlists, and music videos, and it updates daily. Open YouTube Music, tap your profile icon, and go to Your Channel to find it. For a full year-in-review you get Recap once a year, and for anything deeper, like true play counts for every track you have ever heard, you export your history with Google Takeout. This guide walks through all of it, and it is honest about what does not exist so you do not waste an afternoon looking for it.

If you came here after searching "stats fm for youtube music," start with the section on that, because there is a catch worth knowing before you download anything.

The quick answer: what YouTube Music shows you natively

For a long time YouTube Music had almost nothing here, which is why so many people assumed it had no stats at all. That has changed. There are now two native features, and they do different jobs.

The first is your ongoing top stats, labeled "On repeat." Google added public listening stats to profiles in 2023, and the feature covers four categories: songs on repeat, artists on repeat, playlists on repeat, and music videos on repeat (9to5Google). It pulls from your watch history across YouTube services, so heavy plays of a music video on regular YouTube can nudge what shows up here. The list refreshes daily, and by default it is private. You can make it public if you want friends to see it, or keep individual categories hidden.

The second is Recap, the once-a-year package that competes with Spotify Wrapped. YouTube Music has run Recap every year, and the 2025 edition rolled out in late November with AI features like "Ask about your year," which lets you ask questions about your own listening (9to5Google). Recap has always leaned heavily on the mobile app. If you want the full breakdown of what Recap includes and when it lands, that lives in our guide to YouTube Music Recap vs Spotify Wrapped.

So the honest summary is this. Natively you get a rolling top-artists and top-songs list, plus one big annual recap. What you do not get from the app itself is a Spotify-style dashboard with exact monthly play counts for every artist. For that you go off-platform, which the rest of this guide covers.

How to check your YouTube Music stats step by step

Here is the fastest path to your live top stats inside the app.

  1. Open the YouTube Music app or the web player and make sure you are signed in.
  2. Tap your profile picture in the top corner.
  3. Choose Your Channel. This opens your YouTube Music channel page.
  4. Scroll to the "On repeat" section to see your top songs, artists, playlists, and videos.

Google's own support page for managing your top stats confirms the layout and adds a useful detail: these stats are private unless you choose to share them. If you want to make them public, or hide certain categories, go to Settings, then Privacy & Location, then Channel Settings, and toggle "Share your 'On repeat'" and the advanced privacy options. Public stats can stay visible for up to two years, and turning the setting off removes them.

One more native detail worth knowing. YouTube Music has been adding total play counts to individual songs, so on some tracks you can see how many times a song has been played across the platform (Android Police). That is a global count for the song, not your personal count, so do not confuse the two.

If your main goal is just the artist ranking, we have a focused walkthrough for that in how to see your top artists on YouTube Music.

About "stats fm for youtube music" (read this before you download anything)

This is the part most other pages skip, and it is the single most useful thing to know if you are coming from Spotify.

stats.fm, the app that used to be called Spotistats and that a lot of people use for detailed Spotify stats, does not support YouTube Music. There is an open feature request on the stats.fm feedback board asking for exactly this. It was posted almost two years ago, it has picked up upvotes from other users who want the same thing, and it still sits as "Open" with no build in progress (stats.fm feedback). The same goes for statsforspotify.com and most of the other "connect your account" stat sites you have seen shared around. They are built on Spotify's API and they only read Spotify.

Why does that matter? Because if you search "stats fm for youtube music" expecting to link your account and get a Wrapped-style dashboard, you hit a wall. The tool you are looking for does not exist as a plug-and-play login, and that is not your fault. It is a limitation of what YouTube exposes. There are real workarounds, they just take a little more effort than one tap, and they are covered below.

If you happen to use both services, this is also the moment to point out the obvious. Your Spotify stats are still the easy ones. You can pull those any time with Music Profile Viewer, our free Spotify stats tool, and our companion guide on how to see your Spotify stats covers the built-in options too. Just know that our tool reads Spotify, not YouTube Music, so it will not show your YouTube listening.

Coming here from Spotify? Music Profile Viewer is our free Spotify stats tool. Open the Spotify profile viewer to see your top artists and tracks across every time range, any day of the year.

It uses official read-only sign in and stores nothing. To be clear, it reads Spotify only. It does not connect to YouTube Music or show your YouTube listening.

The workarounds that actually give you deep stats

If the native On repeat list is not enough, there are two paths that work today.

Google Takeout: your complete listening history as a file

This is the reliable one. Everything you have played on YouTube and YouTube Music is stored in your watch history, and Google lets you export it. Go to Google Takeout, deselect everything, then select only YouTube and YouTube Music. Under the options, choose history and export it as JSON. You will get a watch-history.json file that lists every video and track with a timestamp.

By itself that file is a wall of raw data, but it is the raw material for real stats. Community tools can parse it into top-artist and top-song rankings, total listening time, and play counts, which is exactly the Wrapped-style breakdown the app does not hand you. Our deeper guide on YouTube Music history walks through the export and what you can do with the file once you have it.

Scrobbling to Last.fm for stats that never stop

The second path is scrobbling. Last.fm has tracked listening for years and produces genuinely detailed stats, weekly, monthly, and all-time, that outclass anything the native apps show. The trick is getting YouTube Music plays into it.

There is real community interest in this. Open-source projects like the youtube-music-history-scrobbler take your Google Takeout watch-history.json, reformat it, and prepare it for upload to Last.fm through a bulk scrobbler. It even queries the YouTube API to fill in album names, though the developer notes that only succeeds about 90 percent of the time because of API limits. It is not a polished consumer app, and it takes some patience, but it works, and it is free.

Once your history is in Last.fm, you get an ongoing dashboard forever, no annual wait. If you want the easier ongoing option going forward rather than a one-time import, our roundup of the best Last.fm scrobblers covers apps that can capture plays as they happen.

"Stats for nerds" is not your listening stats

Worth clearing up, because it trips people up. If you have right-clicked or long-pressed a track and seen a "Stats for nerds" option, that is not what you want. Stats for nerds is a playback diagnostics overlay. It shows technical playback data like the video ID, resolution, audio codec, buffer health, and your connection speed. It is meant for troubleshooting quality issues, not for showing your top artists or how many hours you listened. So if a guide told you to check stats for nerds for your listening stats, that guide was wrong. It is developer-style info about the file currently playing, nothing more.

The honest limits (and why no app can just log in and show everything)

It helps to understand why this is harder than it should be, because it explains every workaround above.

The official YouTube Data API, the thing a third-party tool would use to read your account, exposes your liked videos, your playlists, and your subscriptions. It does not expose your YouTube Music listening history or your personal play counts. The older watch-history API was deprecated years ago. So any tool that connects to your Google account can show your liked songs, your playlists, and the artists you are subscribed to or likely favor, but it cannot pull a true "top tracks by play count" list from the API alone. That number lives in your watch history, and the only clean way to get watch history out is Google Takeout.

That is the whole reason the export and scrobbler routes exist. It is not that developers are lazy. It is that Google does not open the door the way Spotify does. Anyone who claims their app can log in and instantly show your complete YouTube Music play history is either using your Takeout file behind the scenes or overselling what it does.

YouTube Music also has no public listener profiles in the Spotify sense and no "who viewed your profile" feature, so if you were hoping to see who checked out your page, that does not exist here.

For context on how this compares to other services, Apple handles it differently again, and our guide on how to see your Apple Music stats breaks down Replay and the native options there. And when you are ready to explore your YouTube listening more, the new YouTube Music hub pulls these paths together, with the honest caveat that deep play-count stats still start with your Takeout export rather than a one-click login.

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