getTopArtists

Get the top artists listened to by a user. You can stipulate a time period. Sends the overall chart by default.

No authentication required.

Parameters

Method	Type	Default	Required	Description
user	string	none		The Last.fm username to fetch top artists for.
period	string	overall		The time period over which to retrieve top albums for. Can be overall, 7day, 1month, 3month, 6month or 12month.
limit	number	50		The number of results to fetch per page.
page	number	1		The page number to fetch.
api_key	key	none		A Last.fm API key.

Responses

Errors:

• 6 : Invalid parameters - Your request was either missing a required parameter, the parameter was not found, or had 0 results
• 8 : Operation failed - Something else went wrong
• 9 : Invalid session key - Please re-authenticate
• 10 : Invalid API key - You must be granted a valid key by last.fm
• 11 : Service Offline - This service is temporarily offline. Try again later.
• 13 : Invalid method signature supplied
• 16 : There was a temporary error processing your request. Please try again
• 26 : Suspended API key - Access for your account has been suspended, please contact Last.fm
• 29 : Rate limit exceeded - Your IP has made too many requests in a short period

Examples

Example response

Parameter	Value
user	aidan-
limit	3
api_key	YOUR_API_KEY
format	json

HTTP status: 200 OK

https://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=user.getTopArtists&user=aidan-&limit=3&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&format=json

{
    "topartists": {
        "artist": [
            {
                "@attr": {
                    "rank": "1"
                },
                "mbid": "5eecaf18-02ec-47af-a4f2-7831db373419",
                "url": "https://www.last.fm/music/Queen",
                "playcount": "1511",
                "image": [
                    {
                        "size": "small",
                        "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/34s/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
                    },
                    {
                        "size": "medium",
                        "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/64s/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
                    },
                    {
                        "size": "large",
                        "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/174s/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
                    },
                    {
                        "size": "extralarge",
                        "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/300x300/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
                    },
                    {
                        "size": "mega",
                        "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/300x300/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
                    }
                ],
                "name": "Queen",
                "streamable": "0"
            },
            {
                "@attr": {
                    "rank": "2"
                },
                "mbid": "f4903035-e9cd-4b7f-b462-0447b0cd490a",
                "url": "https://www.last.fm/music/Videoclub",
                "playcount": "1124",
                "image": [
                    {
                        "size": "small",
                        "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/34s/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
                    },
                    {
                        "size": "medium",
                        "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/64s/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
                    },
                    {
                        "size": "large",
                        "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/174s/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
                    },
                    {
                        "size": "extralarge",
                        "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/300x300/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
                    },
                    {
                        "size": "mega",
                        "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/300x300/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
                    }
                ],
                "name": "Videoclub",
                "streamable": "0"
            },
            {
                "@attr": {
                    "rank": "3"
                },
                "mbid": "c0252a1b-0133-46bb-8c4f-cade46349ec3",
                "url": "https://www.last.fm/music/Alestorm",
                "playcount": "1079",
                "image": [
                    {
                        "size": "small",
                        "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/34s/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
                    },
                    {
                        "size": "medium",
                        "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/64s/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
                    },
                    {
                        "size": "large",
                        "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/174s/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
                    },
                    {
                        "size": "extralarge",
                        "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/300x300/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
                    },
                    {
                        "size": "mega",
                        "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/300x300/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
                    }
                ],
                "name": "Alestorm",
                "streamable": "0"
            }
        ],
        "@attr": {
            "page": "1",
            "total": "1931",
            "user": "aidan-",
            "perPage": "3",
            "totalPages": "644"
        }
    }
}