Your latest release is picking up streams. A playlist is bringing in new listeners. An unexpected market is starting to grow. What does it all mean for your next move?

The official Songstats Connector for Claude brings your music analytics into the conversation. Artists, labels, managers and music professionals can ask questions about their performance, investigate changes and turn the results into actionable marketing opportunities.

Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, retrieves the relevant data from Songstats, helping you understand the numbers and decide what to explore next.

Prefer using ChatGPT? Follow our guide to connecting your Songstats account to ChatGPT.

What can you do with Songstats in Claude?

Start with a specific release, a particular platform or a question about your wider catalog:

“Which tracks in my catalog gained the most Spotify followers this month?”

“Compare the first 30 days of my two latest releases.”

“Where is my audience growing, and which markets deserve a closer look?”

“Which playlists are contributing to this track’s momentum?”

“Give me a weekly performance briefing for my artist profile.”

You can explore current and historical statistics, audience geography, playlist activity and more across the profiles and data available to your account.

An active Songstats Artist, Label or Professional subscription includes a monthly API and MCP allowance. There’s no separate MCP plan to purchase.

Here’s how to get connected.

Step #1: Open Songstats in Claude’s directory

Go directly to the Songstats Connector.

You can also open Customize → Connectors in Claude and browse the directory for Songstats. Select the listing to view its description and capabilities.

Step #2: Select Connect

Click Connect to begin setup.

If you use Claude through a Team or Enterprise workspace, an organization owner may need to enable Songstats before you can connect your account.

There’s no software to install and no server URL to enter.

Step #3: Authorize your Songstats account

Sign in to Songstats with the account whose analytics you want Claude to access.

Review the requested permissions, then select Authorize. The connection uses OAuth, so you sign in with Songstats directly — there’s no need to paste an API key or send your password in a chat.

The Songstats connector provides read-only access. It lets Claude retrieve permitted analytics without editing your Songstats profiles or account settings.

Step #4: Start a conversation

Open a new Claude chat. Use the + → Connectors menu to enable Songstats for that conversation, following Claude’s connector instructions.

Then try:

“Use Songstats to show which artist profiles I can access, then help me review my latest release.”

Once you have an answer, ask a follow-up. Narrow the analysis to Spotify, compare a different period or ask Claude to turn its findings into a short briefing for your team.

Make your next question count

A useful analysis often starts with a follow-up: Why did this change? Where is the growth coming from? Which release should I investigate next?

With Songstats connected to Claude, you can explore those questions in one conversation, using your music data as the starting point.

Connect Songstats to Claude and try it with your own catalog.

You can review or revoke the connection at any time under Account Settings → AI Connections in Songstats.

How to Connect Your Songstats Account to Claude was originally published in The Songstats Lab on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Playlist Sync

Your playlists should grow with your music. But updating your playlists across all platforms takes time.

Playlist Sync now automatically adds your new releases to your artist or label playlists on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, YouTube, SoundCloud and TIDAL.

Connect your account, select an existing playlist and enable automatic updates. Songstats adds your latest releases to the top of your playlist right as your catalog updates. Want to include older music too? Use Resync entire catalog to bring your back catalog into the playlist.

Head to Profile Settings → Playlist Sync to get started.

Website Embed

Give fans, promoters and industry partners a current snapshot of your music’s performance directly on your own website.

With Website Embed, you can choose and arrange up to four metrics, then add available profile content such as your latest release, upcoming release or upcoming events. Your stats update automatically, helping you keep your website or electronic press kit fresh without replacing screenshots.

Customize your embed, preview it on desktop and mobile, then select Copy Code and paste it into your website’s HTML or embed block.

Head to Profile Settings → Website Embed to create yours.

Additional Improvements & Bug Fixes

• Improved Settings Navigation
• Performance Optimizations

Version 9.3.0 of the iOS and Android App is now available and recommended to be installed by all users to take advantage of the new features and fixes.

Songstats Product Update: October 2026 was originally published in The Songstats Lab on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Your Spotify streams are up — but how much have they grown this week? Your latest release is gaining traction — but how does it compare with the ones before it? Your track is reaching new playlists — but where is it getting the most support?

Meet Ask Songstats AI. A simpler way to explore your music’s performance, right where you’re already looking.

Your next insight starts with a question.

Open an artist, label, or track in the Songstats app or desktop dashboard and look for the new Ask Songstats AI button in the bottom right corner.

Choose a suggested question tailored to the page you’re viewing. You can ask Songstats AI things like:

“How did Spotify streams change this week?”

“How does my latest release compare to my previous releases?”

“Which three Spotify playlists drive the most support?”

“Which Spotify playlists currently contain this track?”

Explore recent activity, top tracks, audience locations, and release details wherever that data is available.

Each question focuses on the profile or track you have open, helping you move from a headline number to a clearer understanding of your music.

Take the conversation further.

One answer can spark a whole new set of questions.

Want to compare artists, connect streaming trends with playlist and radio activity, or explore what your performance could mean for your next campaign?

Connect Songstats to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, or another compatible AI client through the Songstats MCP Server. Explore across platforms and profiles, ask follow-up questions, and bring your analytics into the conversations shaping your next move.

MCP access is included with every active Songstats subscription.

Version 9.2.0 of the iOS and Android App is now available and recommended to be installed by all users to take advantage of the new features and fixes.

New Product Feature: Ask Songstats AI was originally published in The Songstats Lab on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Playlist Journey

Every playlist addition is part of your track’s story. With Playlist Journey, you can now explore how that story develops across platforms, directly inside Songstats.

Follow the first playlist placements, see when new waves of support appeared, and explore the playlists behind each stage. Whether you’re reviewing a recent release or looking back at an older track, Playlist Journey gives you a clearer picture of how playlist support builds over time.

Referring Artist Network

You already know which related artists appear on your profile. But have you ever wondered which other artists feature you in theirs?

With the new Referring Artist Network, you can now discover which artists’ related artist recommendations link back to your profile across each platform. See where their fans could discover your music, explore connections you might not have known about, and uncover new opportunities for collaborations and audience growth.

SoundCloud Playlists

We’ve expanded our SoundCloud analytics with playlist tracking, giving you more insight into where your music is being featured.

Explore playlist placements, curator information, follower counts and track positions. New SoundCloud playlist recommendation filters also make it easier to discover relevant playlists for your music. Together with streams, likes, reposts, and comments, these additions give you a more complete view of your SoundCloud performance.

Recent Radio Plays

See where your music has been played most recently with Recent Radio Plays.

The new view brings individual airplay detections together with station and location details, making it easier to follow recent support for a track or across your catalog. Available with Radiostats access, it’s a straightforward way to stay on top of the stations playing your music.

Additional Improvements & Bug Fixes

• New welcome flow and profile setup guides
• Email login codes and the option to log out across all devices
• Improved navigation and easier access to profile settings
• More consistent notification badges and per-profile indicators
• Catalog refresh improvements and new sharing previews

Version 9.1.0 of the iOS and Android App is now available and recommended to be installed by all users to take advantage of the new features and fixes.

Songstats Product Update: September 2026 was originally published in The Songstats Lab on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

What if you could ask a simple question about your music and get an answer backed by your real Songstats data? Now you can.

With the official Songstats Plugin for ChatGPT, artists, labels, managers and music professionals can explore their analytics without digging through dashboards or building reports manually. Ask how your latest release is performing, discover which playlists and locations are driving a track, compare growth between periods or summarize the biggest changes across your catalog.

ChatGPT finds the relevant Songstats data and turns it into a clear, useful explanation — while Songstats remains the source of truth.

What can you do with Songstats in ChatGPT?

Once connected, you can ask questions such as:

“How is my latest release performing across platforms?”

“Which playlists and locations are driving this track?”

“Compare my artist growth over the last 30 days.”

“What changed most across my catalog this week?”

“How does my new release compare to my previous releases?”

“Where should I focus my music marketing efforts next?”

You can explore current and historical performance, audience geography, tracks, playlists, curators and source-level trends across the profiles available to your Songstats account.

An active Artist, Label or Professional subscription includes monthly API and MCP usage, so there is no separate MCP plan required.

Ready? Let’s connect your account.

Step #1: Open the Songstats plugin in ChatGPT

Open ChatGPT on the web, desktop or mobile and navigate to Plugins.

Search for Songstats and open the official plugin published by The Stats Company. You can also go directly to the official Songstats plugin.

Step #2: Install the Songstats plugin

Select + or Install plugin to add Songstats to ChatGPT.

If you are using a managed Business, Enterprise or Education workspace, your administrator may need to make the plugin available first.

Step #3: Connect your Songstats account

Select Connect when prompted. ChatGPT will send you to Songstats to complete the secure authorization.

Sign in to the Songstats account containing the artist or label profiles you want to use. Review the requested access and approve the connection.

The integration uses OAuth, so you never need to copy an API key or share your Songstats password with ChatGPT. ChatGPT can retrieve analytics only for profiles and data your Songstats account is authorized to access.

Step #4: Start asking questions

That’s it — your Songstats account is now connected to ChatGPT! 🚀

Start a new conversation and type @Songstats to select the plugin directly. You can also open the + menu, select More and choose Songstats.

Try beginning with:

How is my latest release performing across platforms, and what stands out?

From there, keep the conversation going. Ask ChatGPT to examine a particular platform, compare two releases, change the date range or explain which playlists and markets deserve a closer look.

Your music data, now conversational

Connecting Songstats to ChatGPT gives you a faster and more natural way to understand your music performance. Instead of starting with a dashboard or endpoint, simply start with the question you want answered.

Pretty cool, right? 😎

Go ahead and connect Songstats to ChatGPT today — and turn your analytics into insights you can act on.

You can review or disconnect the integration at any time under Account Settings → AI Connections in Songstats.

How to Connect Your Songstats Account to ChatGPT was originally published in The Songstats Lab on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

What if your AI knew your music and social data? Now it does.

Today, we are launching the new Songstats and Socialstats MCP servers — a powerful new way to explore music, audience, creator, and content analytics from the AI client you already use.

MCP access is included at no extra cost with every active Songstats and Socialstats subscription. Every artist, label, creator, and Professional Plan subscription can connect directly using their existing account. There is no separate MCP plan, Enterprise agreement or developer account required.

We are also introducing Member API Keys, allowing every account to generate a personal API key to access their authorized Songstats and Socialstats profiles programmatically via the Enterprise API — included in your existing plan at no extra cost.

As long as your subscription remains active, you can securely access your data through ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, Codex, Postman and other compatible AI and API clients.

Instead of moving between dashboards, exporting reports, and manually combining data, you can now ask questions in natural language and continue exploring the results in the same conversation.

Songstats and Socialstats remain the source of truth. Your AI finds the right data and helps turn it into an answer.

From Dashboards to Conversations

With the new Songstats and Socialstats MCP servers, your AI can now work with the analytics you are already authorized to access.

You can ask questions such as:

“How is my latest release performing across platforms?”

“Which playlists and locations are driving this track?”

“Compare this artist’s growth over the last 30 days.”

“Summarize the biggest changes across my catalog this week.”

“Which public posts are driving the strongest engagement?”

“Compare these creators’ audience and content momentum.”

“Where should I focus my music marketing efforts next?”

Your AI client can discover the right Songstats or Socialstats tools, resolve the relevant profiles and tracks, retrieve the required data, and combine the results into a clear explanation.

You ask for the answer — not the endpoint.

Two MCP Servers. One AI Workflow.

Connect either server independently or add both to the same AI client.

Songstats MCP

Songstats MCP brings artist, label, collaborator, and track analytics into your conversations. Explore current and historic performance across streaming, playlists, charts, audiences, locations, catalogs, and radio.

Socialstats MCP

Socialstats MCP brings creator, audience, and public-content analytics into the same workflow. Compare social growth, engagement, demographics, and post performance across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook.

Connect both servers to move naturally between music and creator intelligence in one conversation.

Works With the AI Clients You Already Use

Songstats and Socialstats MCP support a growing range of compatible AI clients, including:

• ChatGPT (Official Songstats & Socialstats Plugins)
• Claude (Custom Connector)
• Grok (Custom Connector)
• Gemini CLI
• Codex CLI
• Clients supporting remote MCP servers via streamable HTTP & OAuth

The new MCP setup guide includes step-by-step instructions for every supported client. Choose Songstats or Socialstats, select your AI client, and follow the connection flow.

If you use both products, simply complete the setup once for each server.

Secure Access Through OAuth

Every connection uses OAuth, so you sign in directly with Songstats or Socialstats and approve access for each product.

Your API key and account credentials are never shared with the AI client. Connections are product-specific and can be reviewed or disconnected from your account settings at any time.

The MCP servers provide read-only access to authorized analytics. They do not give AI clients unrestricted access to the Songstats or Socialstats databases, and they cannot modify your profiles, links, subscriptions, or account information.

Your existing subscription, team, and Enterprise API permissions determine which profiles, tracks, creators, endpoints, and data sources are available.

Included With Your Subscription

Monthly MCP usage is automatically included with active Songstats and Socialstats subscriptions out of the box. No separate MCP plan is required.

Each active subscription contributes objects to your shared monthly API and MCP allowance:

• Every Songstats artist subscription adds 100 monthly objects
• Every Songstats label subscription adds 150 monthly objects
• Every Socialstats creator subscription adds 100 monthly objects
• Every eligible Professional Plan adds 500 monthly objects

Each artist, label, collaborator, track, or creator counts once when it is first unlocked and remains available until the end of the month. Public posts belonging to an unlocked Socialstats creator are included.

Members with eligible Enterprise API access can also use their existing agreements through MCP, preserving the configured profile, endpoint, source, rate-limit, and usage permissions.

For larger catalogs, teams, or higher usage requirements, contact api@songstats.com.

Built for the Next Generation of Music Intelligence

Earlier this month, we launched The Stats Company Developer Portal — a unified home for developers building with the Songstats, Radiostats, and Socialstats Enterprise APIs.

MCP is the next step in that journey.

The Stats Company APIs already power more than 100 million requests annually across distributors, record labels, booking agencies, management firms, music publishers, and consumer applications.

Now, the same connected data infrastructure can become part of the AI tools music and creator teams increasingly use every day.

We believe data should do more than tell you what happened. It should help you understand why it happened — and what to do next.

With Songstats and Socialstats MCP, those answers are now only a conversation away.

Visit developers.stats.company/mcp to connect your AI client and start exploring.

Introducing: Songstats & Socialstats MCP Servers was originally published in The Songstats Lab on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Today, we are launching The Stats Company Developer Portal — a unified home for developers working with the Songstats, Radiostats, and Socialstats Enterprise APIs.

The portal brings our complete API documentation together in one place, with searchable endpoints, real-world examples, generated client code, downloadable specifications, and an interactive request workbench.

Alongside the portal, we are releasing official SDKs for Node.js, Python, and Ruby, as well as ready-to-import Postman collections that make it even faster to explore and integrate the APIs.

Whether you are adding music analytics to a distribution dashboard, integrating global radio airplay into a reporting platform, or building creator intelligence into your product, everything you need to get started is now only a few clicks away.

Three APIs. One Connected View.

The portal provides dedicated documentation for three purpose-built data products:

Songstats API

Access unified artist, label, collaborator, and track data across 18 streaming, download, social, and music-discovery platforms.

The Songstats API provides current and historic statistics alongside detailed playlist, chart, audience, activity, location, and catalog information.

Radiostats API

Integrate global radio airplay monitoring across terrestrial and digital radio stations, satellite television channels, and SiriusXM.

Radiostats provides detailed detections, station information, airplay statistics, audience insights, and historic performance data for artists, labels, and tracks.

Socialstats API

Bring creator growth, audience, engagement, and public content insights into your platform across today’s leading social networks.

Socialstats provides unified creator profiles, current and historic analytics, audience demographics, content performance, and post-level data.

Official Songstats and Socialstats SDKs

Alongside the new portal, we released official client SDKs for the Songstats and Socialstats APIs across three popular development environments.

Node.js and TypeScript

• Songstats Node.js SDK
• Socialstats Node.js SDK

Python

• Songstats Python SDK
• Socialstats Python SDK

Ruby

• Songstats Ruby SDK
• Socialstats Ruby SDK

Each SDK provides a lightweight wrapper around its respective REST API. Authentication, request construction, response handling, and API errors are managed through familiar resource-based clients, helping development teams integrate faster with less boilerplate.

Ready-to-Import Postman Collections

Official Postman collections are also available for the Songstats and Socialstats APIs.

Each collection contains ready-to-use requests, documented parameters, collection variables, and API-key authentication. Import the collection, provide your API key, and begin exploring the available resources immediately.

• Songstats API Postman Collection
• Socialstats API Postman Collection

The collections are maintained alongside the canonical API documentation so integrations can stay aligned as new endpoints and capabilities are introduced.

Built for What Comes Next

The Stats Company APIs already serve more than 100 million requests annually for distributors, record labels, booking agencies, management firms, music publishers, and consumer applications.

The new developer portal gives those teams — and everyone building next-generation music products — a clearer, faster path into the data infrastructure behind Songstats, Radiostats, and Socialstats.

Visit developers.stats.company to explore the APIs and start building.

For Enterprise API access, contact api@songstats.com.

Introducing The Stats Company Developer Portal was originally published in The Songstats Lab on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Today, we are excited to introduce the Socialstats API — a new way for applications, agencies, brands, and data partners to integrate creator and social media insights directly into their own products and workflows.

Audiences no longer live on one platform, but their data still does. Creator growth, content performance, engagement, and audience insights are spread across separate networks, dashboards, and reporting tools.

The Socialstats API brings that information together through one unified integration.

Built by The Stats Company, the team behind Songstats, the API returns structured JSON data about creators and their social content directly from the Socialstats database. Based on simple REST principles, it is designed to reduce development time while making cross-platform creator data easier to access, compare, and act on.

One API for the leading social platforms

The Socialstats API currently supports creator-level data across:

• Instagram
• TikTok
• YouTube
• Facebook

Creators can be requested using their public Socialstats ID or a platform-specific ID or username. This makes it easy to connect existing creator records with their profiles across multiple social networks.

Instead of building and maintaining separate integrations for every platform, teams can work with one consistent creator model and a unified set of endpoints.

From audience growth to individual posts

The Socialstats API provides access to the information needed to understand both long-term creator growth and day-to-day content performance.

Available endpoints include:

• Creator information and connected social profiles
• Current and historic creator statistics
• Audience insights and geographic locations
• Public content and top-performing posts
• Current and historic post-level analytics
• Creator activities and notable social milestones
• Creator search and profile-linking tools

This makes it possible to build creator dashboards, campaign reports, discovery tools, benchmarking products, and custom analytics without assembling fragmented data from multiple sources.

Go deeper with authorized creator analytics

Public metrics only tell part of the story.

The Socialstats API also includes an OAuth authorization flow that allows creators to securely grant access to first-party analytics from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook.

Once authorized, applications can access additional creator and post insights where available, including richer audience demographics, follower activity patterns, geographic rankings, Instagram Stories, Facebook posts, and other metrics that are not exposed through public profiles.

Each authorization is tied to a specific creator, platform, and API customer. Socialstats verifies that the authorized platform profile matches the profile already connected to the creator, helping teams maintain clean and dependable creator records.

This allows agencies, creator platforms, and professional teams to combine public market intelligence with authorized analytics in one consistent workflow.

Built for platforms, agencies, brands, and data partners

Whether you are building a creator discovery platform, managing hundreds of social profiles, measuring influencer campaigns, or creating automated client reports, the Socialstats API gives you a flexible foundation for working with creator data.

It can help teams:

• Monitor creator and audience growth across platforms
• Identify top-performing posts and emerging content trends
• Measure campaign and partnership performance
• Compare creators using consistent metrics
• Generate automated reports for clients and stakeholders
• Bring creator intelligence into existing dashboards and products

While Socialstats has strong roots in music, the API is designed for creators and organizations across entertainment, sports, media, fashion, gaming, education, and every other industry where audience growth matters.

Designed for faster development

The Socialstats API uses standard HTTPS requests and API Key authentication. Complete endpoint documentation, request parameters, response schemas, and implementation examples are available in the Socialstats API documentation.

To make integration even faster, we also provide an official Postman collection and SDKs for Node.js, Python, and Ruby.

We believe social media data should do more than report follower counts. It should help teams understand what is driving growth, identify meaningful momentum, and make better decisions while there is still time to act.

The Socialstats API makes that intelligence available wherever you need it.

The full documentation is available here: https://developers.stats.company
To discuss enterprise access and pricing, contact: api@socialstats.com

The Socialstats API — Enterprise Access to Social Media Data Across All Platforms was originally published in The Socialstats Hub on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Audiences no longer live on one platform — but their data still does. Every social network tells part of the story, leaving creators and teams to piece together the bigger picture across separate apps, dashboards, and reports.

Socialstats is an all-in-one social media analytics platform for creators, influencers, brands, agencies, managers, media teams, and public figures. It brings your audience growth, content performance, engagement, and social activity together in one unified workspace.

Instead of looking at each platform in isolation, Socialstats helps you understand how your entire social presence is performing: what is working, why people are responding, and where your next opportunity may be.

Social media analytics that lead to action

Follower counts only tell part of the story. Sustainable growth comes from understanding the posts, formats, captions, hashtags, publishing times, collaborations, and audience signals behind those numbers.

Socialstats turns that fragmented information into clear, practical insights:

• Cross-platform creator analytics: Monitor performance across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook from one dashboard while keeping every metric in its proper platform context.
• Real-time activity monitoring: Discover breakout posts, engagement spikes, follower milestones, notable interactions, and other meaningful activity while there is still time to act.
• Detailed post analytics: Compare views, reach, likes, comments, shares, saves, watch time, engagement rates, and growth across posts, videos, reels, and stories.
• Audience insights: Explore follower demographics, locations, engagement patterns, peak activity windows, and the best times to publish.
• Historical performance tracking: Connect your profiles and automatically import available post history to uncover longer-term trends.
• Comment and sentiment insights: Understand how audiences are responding and identify the topics and reactions appearing around your content.
• Competitor and profile comparisons: Benchmark growth and content performance to add context to your own results.
• Reports and sharing tools: Export professional reports for clients, partners, managers, and internal teams — or turn milestones into polished artwork ready to share with your audience.

Built for creators — and everyone working around them

For creators and influencers, Socialstats makes it easier to identify winning content, refine a publishing strategy, and demonstrate real impact to potential partners.

For brands, it provides a clearer view of campaign performance, audience response, and the content generating meaningful engagement.

For agencies and managers, Socialstats brings multiple creator profiles into one organized workflow, replacing disconnected screenshots and spreadsheets with consistent analytics and professional reporting.

Whether you manage one profile or an entire roster, the objective is the same: spend less time assembling data and more time acting on it.

Your analytics wherever you work

Socialstats was designed as a mobile-first platform without limiting you to a mobile screen.

Use the web dashboard for deeper analysis and reporting, the iOS and Android apps for alerts, widgets, and insights on the go, or the dedicated desktop app on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

The Socialstats browser extension also brings creator and post insights directly into your browser while viewing profiles across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook.

Professional teams can manage broader creator rosters through the Socialstats Professional Plan, while developers and data partners can build custom dashboards, reports, and workflows with the Socialstats Enterprise API.

See what is working. Understand why. Grow from it.

At The Stats Company, we build analytics platforms that turn complex data into clear, actionable insight. Songstats helps artists and record labels understand their music performance, while Radiostats brings global radio airplay into focus.

Socialstats brings that same philosophy to creators, audiences, and social media.

We believe analytics should do more than describe the past. They should help you recognize momentum while it’s building, understand what drives engagement, make smarter content decisions, demonstrate your value to partners, and build stronger relationships with your audience.

That’s what Socialstats was created to do: give creators and teams the clarity to turn social media insights into meaningful growth.

Socialstats Premium starts at €6.99 per month, and just €4.99 per month when billed annually. Start your free seven-day trial today.

Your content is key. Unlock your growth with Socialstats.

Introducing Socialstats: All Your Social Media Analytics in One Place was originally published in The Socialstats Hub on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

The July 2026 update for the Songstats API is here, and we added new Top Commenters endpoints, Apple Music ID lookup support, richer track and chart responses, and regional position data for Apple Music playlists.

We also made significant query-performance improvements across the Enterprise API, cutting latency and improving response times for almost all endpoints.

You can find the full list of API changes below.

New Additions

New Endpoints: /artists/top_commentors, /collaborators/top_commentors, /labels/top_commentors
Added Top Commenters data for artists, collaborators, and labels across YouTube and SoundCloud.

{
  "scope_id": "month",
  "top_commentors": {
    "youtube": [
      {
        "name": "SubSoul",
        "image_url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/example",
        "external_url": "https://youtube.com/channel/UCO3GgqahVfFg0w9LY2CBiFQ",
        "followers": "1.18M"
      },
      {
        "name": "DEEPROT",
        "image_url": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/example",
        "external_url": "https://youtube.com/channel/UCTOFODoILyXvkRdXtmepffA",
        "followers": "844K"
      }
    ],
    "soundcloud": [
      {
        "name": "John Summit",
        "image_url": "https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-example-t300x300.jpg",
        "external_url": "https://soundcloud.com/johnsummit",
        "followers": "197K"
      },
      {
        "name": "Heldeep Records",
        "image_url": "https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-example-t300x300.jpg",
        "external_url": "https://soundcloud.com/heldeeprecords",
        "followers": "165K"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Apple Music Lookup Support
Tracks and artists can now be requested directly using their Apple Music IDs. Use the new apple_music_track_id parameter across track endpoints and apple_music_artist_id across artist endpoints. Apple Music artist IDs can also be provided as the entity context for supported track requests.

Changes

Track and Chart Response Improvements
Track objects now include the is_remix field, making it easier to distinguish original releases from remixes.

When /tracks/info is requested with with_spotify_ids=true, artist objects now also include spotify_artist_id.

The new only_current=true parameter on /tracks/stats can be used to exclude playlist and chart appearances that are no longer active.

{
  "track_info": {
    "songstats_track_id": "k4bp9etx",
    "title": "Mr. Brightside",
    "is_remix": true,
    "artists": [
      {
        "name": "Don Diablo",
        "songstats_artist_id": "48ra1cnv",
        "spotify_artist_id": "28j8lBWDdDSHSSt5oPlsX2"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Regional Apple Music Playlist Positions
Regional Apple Music playlists returned by /tracks/stats now include separate position information for every available country.

The previous single playlist_country_code field has been replaced by is_regional and positions_by_country. Country codes are returned in uppercase, with current and historic position information for each market.

{
  "source": "apple_music",
  "data": {
    "playlists": [
      {
        "applemusicid": "pl.example",
        "name": "New Music Daily",
        "top_position": 7,
        "top_position_date": "2026-06-28",
        "current_position": 12,
        "added_at": "2026-06-20",
        "removed_at": null,
        "is_regional": true,
        "positions_by_country": {
          "US": {
            "top_position": 7,
            "top_position_date": "2026-06-28",
            "current_position": 12,
            "added_at": "2026-06-20T08:15:00.000Z",
            "removed_at": null
          },
          "GB": {
            "top_position": 14,
            "top_position_date": "2026-06-30",
            "current_position": 19,
            "added_at": "2026-06-22T08:15:00.000Z",
            "removed_at": null
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Deprecations

Historic Engagement Rate Fields
Calculated engagement-rate fields in the /artists/historic_stats, /collaborators/historic_stats, and /labels/historic_stats responses are now deprecated.

This applies to:

• engagement_rate_total for Instagram and TikTok
• video_engagement_rate_total for YouTube videos
• short_engagement_rate_total for YouTube Shorts

{
  "source": "instagram",
  "data": {
    "history": [
      {
        "date": "2026-07-01",
        "views_total": 125400,
        "likes_total": 4300,
        "comments_total": 210,
        "̶e̶n̶g̶a̶g̶e̶m̶e̶n̶t̶_̶r̶a̶t̶e̶_̶t̶o̶t̶a̶l̶"̶:̶ ̶3̶.̶6̶
      }
    ]
  }
}

Data Changes

Improved Spotify Stream Count Aggregation
Spotify stream counts are now aggregated using distinct underlying play-count values, preventing duplicate source records from being counted more than once. This provides more accurate Spotify stream totals across tracks, artists, and labels.

We are also refreshing historic Spotify stream counts at the track, artist, and label level so the improved aggregation is reflected consistently throughout the Enterprise API.

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