Real-time music charts from streaming communities
What's Now Playing Charts is a real-time music discovery platform that tracks what streamers and content creators are listening to. We aggregate music data from streaming communities to create dynamic charts showing trending tracks, popular artists, and musical discoveries.
To start tracking your music:
Finding your Charts API key:
While our platform is designed with streamers in mind, anyone can create an account and track their music listening habits. Your data contributes to the community charts and helps others discover great music.
Yes! You can start tracking immediately without an account:
This is perfect if you want to try the service before committing to an account.
Linking your streaming platforms provides several benefits:
You can link multiple platforms and manage them all from your dashboard.
Our charts are based on real-time play data, ranked by total play count across all users. Charts can be filtered by time period (last 24 hours, week, month, or all time) to see what's trending recently versus all-time favorites.
Top Artists Ranking: Artists are ranked by the total number of unique song-user combinations. Each song by an artist gets one point for every different user who plays it.
For example:
This formula rewards both cross-user popularity and song diversity, giving a balanced view of which artists resonate most broadly across the streaming community.
This can happen when:
If you consistently see "Unknown Artist" for tracks that should be identifiable, please let us know so we can investigate.
Yes! Your dashboard shows your account settings, API key management, and basic statistics. Your profile page also displays your most played tracks, artists, and genre breakdown based on your listening history.
"Tracks played" counts every single play, including replays of the same song. If you play a song 100 times, it counts as 100 plays.
"Analysis based on X tracks" only includes plays where we have genre information from MusicBrainz. Some tracks can't be included in the genre analysis because:
Important: Both numbers include replays! Your DJ Profile reflects your actual listening behavior. If you play certain songs more often, those genres will be weighted more heavily in your profile.
Setlists are automatic recordings of your DJ sets and streaming sessions. They're created by grouping continuous plays during your streams.
Features:
Privacy Control: In your dashboard, you can set setlist privacy to:
The Guess Game is an interactive feature that lets your viewers guess what track you're playing during your stream.
How it works:
The game appears on your profile when active, and viewers can access it directly to participate in real-time.
The What's Now Playing client supports most popular setups and even some obscure ones including:
Currently, vinyl-only setups are not supported as the audio identification technology required would make this service prohibitively expensive to offer for free.
CDJ support is in development but requires hardware testing. If you're in the SF Bay Area and have access to CDJ equipment, please contact us to help with development and testing.
Unfortunately, Rekordbox support is not available due to restrictive licensing terms from AlphaTheta. We'd love to support it, but their closed platform policies make implementation legally risky. If you're interested in Rekordbox support, we encourage reaching out to AlphaTheta to request more open integration policies.
If your tracks aren't showing up, try these troubleshooting steps:
Charts API key location in client:
Still having issues? Contact our support team.
Yes, you can regenerate your API key at any time from your dashboard.
What happens when you regenerate:
Security note: If you suspect your API key has been compromised or shared publicly, regenerate it immediately to prevent unauthorized submissions.
Anonymous users: If you're using an anonymous key and want to claim your data later, save your anonymous key before creating an account. You can then use the "Claim Anonymous Data" feature in the dashboard to transfer all your plays to your new account.
We collect basic track information including:
We do not store any personal files, lyrics, or audio content.
Yes! You have full control over your privacy settings:
Adjust these settings in your dashboard.
We use multiple methods to accurately identify tracks:
We'd love to hear from you! You can:
Yes! What's Now Playing Charts is completely free to use. We're passionate about music discovery and building tools for the streaming community. The service is funded by the What's Now Playing project.