Paste a Spotify playlist link and get its Legit Score in seconds: real activity, follower authenticity and payola red flags, from our database of 12,000+ monitored playlists.
We track playlist activity, follower counts and track rotations daily. The score compares this playlist against what healthy, artist-friendly playlists look like.
A 100K-follower playlist that nobody listens to is worth less than a 5K one with real engagement. We weigh listeners against followers and check when tracks were actually added.
Extreme track rotation, bought followers and pay-to-play keywords are the classic marks of payola playlists. The score flags them before you waste a submission or a fee.
A playlist checker answers one question before you pitch: will this playlist play your music to real listeners? The follower count alone cannot tell you. Followers can be bought, and a playlist can stop being updated for months while keeping its audience number.
MusicPulse scores every playlist from 0 to 100 with the Legit Score. It looks at how recently tracks were added, how many listeners the playlist drives compared to its followers, how tracks rotate, the curator history and payola red flags such as pay-to-play wording.
Bot playlists share the same patterns: tens of thousands of followers but almost no listeners, tracks added and removed within days, and curators who ask for a fee in exchange for a guaranteed placement. Spotify forbids artificial streaming, and a track caught on this kind of playlist can be taken down by its distributor.
A healthy playlist adds tracks regularly, keeps them long enough to be heard and gets listeners in proportion to its size. A 5,000-follower playlist with active listeners is often worth more than a 100,000-follower one that nobody plays.
Paste any Spotify playlist link: you get the score, the reasons behind it and the date of the last addition in seconds. Three checks are free without an account, and checks are unlimited with a free account.
Once you know which playlists are legit, playlist matching ranks the ones that fit your song by genre, tempo and mood, so you only pitch where you have a real chance.
Yes. You can run three checks every 30 days without an account, and unlimited checks with a free MusicPulse account.
Look at three signals: listeners compared to followers, how recently tracks were added and how fast tracks rotate. Many followers, few listeners and constant rotation is the classic bot pattern. The checker measures these signals for you.
Payola means paying a curator for a guaranteed placement. Spotify forbids it, and these playlists are often fed by bots. Paying for a review, as on SubmitHub or Groover, is a different model: the curator is paid to listen, not to add your song.
It is a score from 0 to 100 built from real activity, follower authenticity, track rotation, curator history, profile consistency and payola red flags. Each factor is shown separately, so you can see why a playlist scores high or low.
Editorial playlists are curated by Spotify and do not accept direct submissions, so they get no Legit Score. Pitch them through Spotify for Artists before your release date.