Alternatives and competitors
Sites like last.fm
The 20 closest music tracking and discovery alternatives to last.fm, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 11 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to last.fm? The closest matches are Audiomack, SoundCloud and Tidal. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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- k = 20
- Sites searched
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01 · Entity
About last.fm
last.fm
Last.fm | Play music, find songs, and discover artists
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
Summary by Claude
Last.fm records the songs users play on streaming services and media players ("scrobbling"), shows listening statistics and history, and recommends new music and events based on that data. It also hosts artist, album and track pages with community data.
- Who it’s for
- Music listeners and fans
- Business model
- Advertising and Pro subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to last.fm
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to last.fm, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Audiomack - Music platform empowering artists & fans | Audiomack
Audiomack is a youth-driven, artist-first music streaming platform that allows creators to share unlimited music and podcast content for free.
Very close cos 0.902 - 02
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 cos 0.898 - 03
tidal.com
subscription-based music streaming service
Very close cos 0.895 - 04
website for sharing musical scores
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Billboard – Music Charts, News, Photos & Video
Music Charts, News, Photos & Video
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Spotify - Web Player: Listen to Music, Podcasts, and Audiobooks Online
Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs, podcasts, and audiobooks. Listen to your favorites online now.
Close cos 0.885 - 07
Client Challenge
American online music distributor
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Mixcloud - This is Audio Culture
Join a global community where creators craft a deeper listening experience.
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Listen to the Best Podcasts & Shows Online, Free | iHeart
Listen to the latest episodes from top podcasts. Get news, sports & lifestyle info from your favorite personalities for free!
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Online Songs on JioSaavn: Download & Play Latest Music for Free
Listen to Latest and Trending Bollywood Hindi songs online for free with JioSaavn anytime, anywhere. Download or listen to unlimited new & old Hindi songs online. Search from most trending, weekly top 15, Hindi movie songs, etc on JioSaavn.
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SurveyMonkey: The World’s Most Popular Survey Platform
Easily create surveys and forms with AI and templates for employee and customer feedback, market research, event registrations and more. Get started free.
Close cos 0.878 - 12
YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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website and database about audio recordings
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Shazam - Music Discovery, Charts & Song Lyrics
Identify the music playing around you. Explore the music you love. Discover songs, lyrics, and artists on Shazam.
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Smart Links for Music Marketing, Podcasts and Artist Promotion | Linkfire
Smart links for music marketing and podcast promotion. From your first single to your first world tour, Linkfire simplifies music and podcast promotion every step of the way. Trusted by major labels and over 50k artists.
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Deezer | 1 Month Free | Music Streaming app online
Try Deezer at 0EUR! 120+ million tracks & podcasts in high resolution audio quality, ad-free, offline unlimited music and playlists. Plans from 11,99 €/month.
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Genius
American digital media company
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FotMob - Football Live Scores
FotMob is the essential app for matchday. Get live scores, fixtures, tables, match stats, and personalised news from over 500 football leagues around the world.
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thestreet.com
US financial news and financial literacy website
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TradingView — Track All Markets
Where the world charts, chats, and trades markets. We're a supercharged super-charting platform and social network for traders and investors. Free to sign up.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to last.fm’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones last.fm uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What last.fm is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
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
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what last.fm adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on last.fm 11/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- Apple Business · not on last.fm 8/20
- Atlassian · not on last.fm 8/20
- Microsoft 365 8/20
- Zendesk · not on last.fm 7/20
- GlobalSign 7/20
- OneTrust · not on last.fm 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on last.fm 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on last.fm 5/20
- Fastly 5/20
- Comscore · not on last.fm 4/20
- OpenAI · not on last.fm 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on last.fm 4/20