About Delistening
The transparent insights the big platforms keep to themselves.
Delistening is an independent music-analytics platform that gives artists the listener-behaviour insight major streaming services collect but don't expose — where fans lean in, where they drop off, and which part of a song lost them. A passion project ten years in the making, now being rebuilt in the open.
Our history
Ten years in the making.
Delistening began over a decade ago with a simple frustration: you put your music into the world and then hear nothing back. No record-label executive breaking down how it's doing, no honest read on who's actually listening. The original idea — and the first scrappy version of it — is in the video alongside.
A live version of the platform runs today on Laravel, in production at delistening.app. What you're using now is the ground-up rebuild: a polyglot architecture designed for validated plays at scale, durable artist–fan contracts, and analytics an artist can actually act on. The old platform stays live as the migration baseline until the new one has fully caught up.
What we promise artists
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Validated plays
Real human listening, not inflated counts
Fraud analysis runs on every play, at every tier. When you look at your numbers, you're seeing humans who listened — not bots and not click farms. Every analytic downstream is only as trustworthy as the plays underneath it, so we validate them first.
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Durable entitlements
Promises that hold
When a listener earns access — through engagement, purchase, or a campaign — that access is guaranteed against retroactive change. Rule updates apply to future events, never to access already granted. "Free for the first 1,000" actually means it.
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Transparent insights
Numbers you can act on
Fan rankings, geographic concentration, replay patterns, skip points, share attribution — surfaced in a form you can use, sourced so you can see which plays a number came from, and exportable whenever you want.
How it's built
Human-directed, AI-built.
The vision, the goals, the thesis and the product decisions behind Delistening are designed, planned and directed by people. The engineering — the code that turns those decisions into a working platform — is built by AI agents, held to a strict human-set thesis: security and data integrity first, validated plays, durable contracts, transparent insight. It's an experiment in what that pairing can ship, and we'd rather tell you up front than have you wonder.
Curious about the choices under the hood? The Tech Stack page walks through the architecture and the reasoning behind it.
That's why a banner sits at the top of every page. We're in early alpha: things will be rough in places, and your patience while we test is part of the deal. If something looks broken or wrong, telling us is the most useful thing you can do — see Contact.
See the story behind your plays
Free to start. Upload a track, share the link, and watch the data come in.
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