What Was the First Song You Ever Played on Spotify? Here's How to Find It

Try to remember the first song you ever played on Spotify. Maybe it was in middle school, on a laptop you don't own anymore. Maybe it was the song everyone had on repeat that year. Most people have no idea.

Spotify does. It keeps a record of every song you've played since the day you opened your account, and you can get a copy for free. Your very first song is in there, with the exact date and time.

Already have your Spotify ZIP? Upload it here and jump to step 3. If not, start with step 1.

Can Spotify show you your first song?

Only once, so far. In May 2026, for its 20th birthday, Spotify ran a recap called Spotify 20: Your Party of the Year(s). It showed your first day on Spotify, your first streamed song and your all-time top artist. It was a limited-time event, and spotify.com/20 now just opens Spotify's home page.

The app itself doesn't go that far back. Recently played only shows your latest listening, and Listening stats shows your top artists and songs from the past four weeks.

What Spotify does give you is your data. Its Extended streaming history covers the lifetime of your account: every song, with the time it played. Your first song is the oldest play in that file.

How to find the first song you played on Spotify

1. Request your Extended streaming history

On your Spotify account privacy page, tick only Extended streaming history: untick Account data (it only covers the past year) and Technical log information. Press Request data, then confirm the email Spotify sends you.

It usually arrives within a day or two. Our Spotify extended history guide walks through every step, with screenshots. While you wait, you can try it on the demo (below).

2. Upload the ZIP to mystats.music

When the email arrives, download the ZIP and drop it on the Spotify import page. Don't unzip it. It's free, there's no account, and you don't log in with Spotify. Your file is read in your browser and never uploaded to our servers.

3. Find your first day

The Overview shows the dates your history covers, right under the page title. The first date is your first day of listening on Spotify.

4. Open that day in your listening history

Go to Listening history, tap the date button (it says All time), choose Single day, enter your first date and press Apply.

The list is newest first, so scroll to the bottom of the day. The last song on your first day is the first song you ever played on Spotify, with the time it played.

Try it on the demo first

No data yet? The stats preview runs the same dashboard on a made-up listener. Its overview says the history starts on January 8, 2018. Open the listening history, pick that day, and you'll see 9 plays. The one at the bottom, at 10:11 AM, is that listener's first song: "Wake Me Up (feat. Justice)" by The Weeknd.

Yours works exactly the same way.

Why your first song might surprise you

A few things decide what shows up as "first":

• Short plays don't count. mystats counts a play once you've listened for more than 30 seconds, the same line Spotify uses for Wrapped. If the very first thing you did was skip through a few songs, your first song is the first one you actually listened to.
• Podcasts are left out, so your first song is always a song.
• Sleep and focus sounds are hidden by default. If your first play was a rain or white noise track, switch the Music only button at the top to All content to see it.
• Someone else might have been first. If a friend, sibling or roommate used your account in the early days, the first song might be theirs.
• Times are local. Spotify stores times in UTC. mystats shows each play in the local time where you were listening, when it can tell, so a late-night first song stays late at night.

More firsts hiding in your history

Once you've found your first song, the same file can answer a lot more "when did this start?" questions:

• The first time you played any song. Open a song from your top songs or search songs, and it shows your first listen and your last listen, plus every play in between.
• The day you found an artist. Search artists opens any artist with your first listen and the first song of theirs you heard, plus your years together.
• Your first year on Spotify. The years page has a full year in review for every year, starting with your first: its top artist, top song and hours listened. In the demo, the first year's top song is "Teenage Dream".
• When your favorites arrived. The favorites chapter of your artist storyline shows when each of your top artists first showed up.

Can you find it without mystats?

Yes, if you don't mind raw data. Unzip the file and open the Streaming_History_Audio files in a text editor. Each play has a ts field (the time, in UTC) and the song and artist name. The file with the earliest year in its name has your first plays, and the smallest ts is your first.

It works, but it's thousands of lines of text with podcasts, skips and sleep sounds mixed in. mystats does the same reading in your browser and sorts it into days for you.

Frequently asked questions

Can I see my first song with a free Spotify account?

Yes. Anyone can request their data from Spotify, free or Premium, and mystats is free too.

Why does my first day look later than when I joined?

Your history starts with your first play, not with the day you made the account. If you signed up and didn't play anything for a while, your first day is the day you started listening.

Is my listening history uploaded anywhere?

No. Your file is read in your browser. mystats keeps your stats in your own browser for 90 days so they open straight away next time, and you can forget them any time. See our privacy page.

What else can I see?

The same upload shows how many hours you've spent on Spotify, your all-time top songs and artists and your Wrapped 2026 so far. For the full tour, see what your Spotify extended history reveals.