Free Spotify Playlist Checker
Thinking of pitching a playlist? Paste its Spotify link below and get an instant health report — bot-risk signals, curator activity and engagement coherence. Free, no signup needed.
Heuristic screening of public Spotify signals — mismatched data is a reason to look closer, never proof of artificial activity.
This is a heuristic screening based on public Spotify data — a low score is a reason to look closer, not proof of wrongdoing. Results refresh every 24 hours.
Why vet a playlist before pitching?
Spotify actively removes artificial streams — and songs placed on botted playlists can lose their stream counts or, worse, get flagged. A playlist with 80,000 followers whose tracks nobody actually plays won't grow your audience; it can actively hurt it. Thirty seconds of vetting saves weeks of wasted outreach.
What this checker looks at
Engagement coherence
Bought followers follow — they don't listen. When a playlist has a big audience but its tracks show almost no streaming popularity, the audience probably isn't real. This is the single strongest signal available from public data.
Curator activity
Healthy playlists are maintained. If nothing was added for a year, your song would be joining a ghost town.
Artist diversity & growth pattern
Genuine curation shows many different artists added steadily over time. A playlist dominated by one artist, or bulk-loaded in a single day, tells a different story.
Description red flags
Playlists openly selling placements violate Spotify's terms and get purged regularly — taking your placement (and money) with them.
How the score works
The score (model v1.0) is a weighted blend of six public signals: engagement coherence (30%), curator activity (20%), artist diversity (15%), addition pattern (15%), description check (10%) and size sanity (10%). Bands: 75+ looking healthy · 55–74 mostly healthy · 35–54 proceed with caution · below 35 high-risk signals. When a playlist exposes too little data — under 20 readable tracks or under 1,000 followers — we lower our confidence and say so rather than guessing.
What this checker cannot detect
It reads public Spotify data only. It cannot see play counts, listener locations, follower history over time, or private analytics — so it cannot prove a playlist is botted, and it may miss sophisticated manipulation that keeps public signals coherent. Playlists rebuilt or imported in bulk can look unusual here while being perfectly legitimate. Treat every result as a screening aid, not a verdict.
Found a good playlist? Here's the next step
PlaylistMap tracks over 100,000 playlists from 12,000+ independent curators — every one with verified contact details, geographic data and freshness tracking. Check a playlist here, then sign up to reach its curator directly with proven pitch templates.