last.fm
last.fm
Who runs last.fm, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest music tracking and discovery alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- ListenBrainz
Measured from last.fm’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit last.fm01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs last.fm
last.fm
The world's largest online music service. Listen online, find out more about your favourite artists, and get music recommendations, only at Last.fm
Wikidata: British social webradio
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What last.fm tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
More than all 13 alternatives below.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to last.fm
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to last.fm, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
ListenBrainz
Track, explore, visualise and share the music you listen to. Follow your favourites and discover great new music.
Very close - 02
stats.fm (Formerly Spotistats for Spotify)
Your music, your stats, your story. Enter a new dimension of music by getting unique insights into your music taste.
Very close - 03 Rate Your Music rateyourmusic.com
social music and film cataloging, rating and reviewing website
Very close - 04
MusicBrainz - the open music encyclopedia
online music metadata database
Very close - 05 Trakt.tv trakt.tv
film and TV episode rating website
Very close - 06
Stream and listen to music online for free with SoundCloud
Discover and play over 320 million music tracks. Join the world’s largest online community of artists, bands, DJs, and audio creators.
Very close - 07
website and database about audio recordings
Close - 08
website for sharing musical scores
Very close - 09 AllMusic allmusic.com
American online music database
Very close - 10
AniList: Track, Discover, Share Anime & Manga
Track, discover, and share anime and manga with AniList. Discover top-rated and popular shows through reviews and recommendations. Sign up for free!
Very close - 11
Mixcloud - This is Audio Culture
Join a global community where creators craft a deeper listening experience.
Very close - 12
YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Very close - 13
Listen to DJ Sets, Mixes and Sounds | hearthis.at
Stream your mixes and sounds on hearthis.at - lossless audio streaming and unlimited uploads. Sell directly & get paid instantly.
Very close - 14
Shazam - Music Discovery, Charts & Song Lyrics
Identify the music playing around you. Explore the music you love. Discover songs, lyrics, and artists on Shazam.
Very close - 15
SongMeanings | Song Lyrics, Meanings & Discussion
SongMeanings is a community of thousands of music lovers who contribute song lyrics, discuss song meanings and interpretations, and connect over songs and artists they love!
Very close - 16
KICK
KICK is a streaming platform that makes it easy for you to find and watch your favorite content.
Very close - 17 Concert Archives concertarchives.org
concert database and social network
Very close - 18
Anime and manga database
Very close - 19
Featured Content on Myspace
Featured Content on Myspace
Very close - 20
Client Challenge
American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles last.fm’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones last.fm uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what last.fm adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 11 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 31 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to last.fm’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Amazon Publisher Services page source: c.amazon-adsystem.com
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: prod-lfm-web-65cd56cc94-d8fqj, cache-ber1080024-BER
- Hosting
- Google Cloud header via: 1.1 google, 1.1 varnish
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms11914851
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=SQONiBgTxRVzPPtIHjei_IUGCiAa0KxoVWFw1…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=wZtKObQNqYYgFHv7Cid2tnVnPQ36_TVFVEMheVLknAc
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=dci8gti5q986deb0vv4lk2t7chzygm
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Cloudflare · not on last.fm 12/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on last.fm 11/20
- Amazon SES · not on last.fm 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on last.fm 5/20
- GlobalSign 4/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on last.fm 3/20
- Next.js · not on last.fm 3/20
- React · not on last.fm 3/20
- Zendesk · not on last.fm 3/20
- Apple Business · not on last.fm 3/20
- OneTrust · not on last.fm 3/20
- Stripe · not on last.fm 3/20
- Zoom · not on last.fm 3/20
- jQuery · not on last.fm 3/20