Services YouTube Music
Your YouTube Music history, year by year
Google Takeout's YouTube history includes every YouTube Music play while your history was on. depth.fm keeps the music and leaves ordinary videos out.
- What the export covers
- Your YouTube history; newer accounts keep 3 years by default
- Listening time
- Estimated by depth.fm from the gaps between plays
- How long it takes
- Usually minutes to a few hours; Google says it can take a few days.
- What you upload
- Google Takeout zip
How to get it
YouTube Music sends it when you ask for a copy of your data. The full guide has every step in detail, with links, and what to do when something goes wrong.
Open Google Takeout
Go to takeout.google.com and sign in with the Google account you use for YouTube Music.
Deselect everything, then tick YouTube and YouTube Music
Press “Deselect all” at the top of the list, then scroll down and tick “YouTube and YouTube Music”.
Keep only history
Press “All YouTube data included”, then “Deselect all”, and tick only “history”. Press OK.
Change history to JSON
Press “Multiple formats”. Next to history, change HTML to JSON. Press OK. JSON is exact to the second; depth.fm can also read the default HTML version if you skip this.
Create the export
Press “Next step”, leave “Send download link via email” and .zip selected, and press “Create export”.
Download the zip and drop it here
Google emails you when it's ready. The file is called something like takeout-20260927T101500Z-001.zip. Upload the whole zip.
What the YouTube Music export can't tell you
Every export has gaps. These are the ones in YouTube Music's, and how depth.fm handles them.
- Google doesn't record how long you listened, so depth.fm estimates it: the gap to your next play if it's within 7 minutes, otherwise 3.5 minutes. Play counts are exact; hours are approximate.
- Every entry counts as a play, including songs you skipped after a second or two.
- No album, device, country, shuffle or skip information is in the export.
- Artists are taken from the channel name (with “ - Topic” removed), so uploads from non-official channels show the channel as the artist.
- Only entries marked as YouTube Music are used; ordinary YouTube videos are left out.
- HTML exports carry times as text with a time-zone abbreviation; JSON exports are exact. Both are read, and the same play in both is counted once.
Questions about YouTube Music
Can I see my whole YouTube Music history?
Your YouTube history; newer accounts keep 3 years by default. Request the export (the steps are above), then upload it here: depth.fm shows every year it covers, with your top artists, albums and tracks for each one.
How long does YouTube Music take to send it?
Usually minutes to a few hours; Google says it can take a few days. Nothing needs to be done in the meantime; the file can be uploaded whenever it arrives.
Does YouTube Music record how long I listened?
No. The export records when you played something, not for how long. depth.fm estimates each play's length from the gap to your next one (up to 7 minutes, otherwise 3.5 minutes) and says so; play counts are exact.
Can I combine YouTube Music with other services?
Yes. Upload the export from every service you've used and they're read into one dashboard, with a filter to see any one service on its own.
Is this the same as YouTube Music Recap?
YouTube Music Recap covers one year. depth.fm covers every year in your export, side by side, with your biggest days, streaks and the artists who stayed.
Used other services too?
Upload those exports as well and they're read into the same history.