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GET /v1/artist-listeners

The top listeners of an artist by MusicBrainz id

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/listenbrainz-api/v1/artist-listeners" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/listenbrainz-api/v1/artist-listeners", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/listenbrainz-api/v1/artist-listeners");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/listenbrainz-api/v1/artist-listeners",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "count": 9,
        "range": "all_time",
        "artist": "Radiohead",
        "listeners": [
            {
                "username": "PixelGRM",
                "listen_count": 135184
            },
            {
                "username": "bullofheaven",
                "listen_count": 44456
            },
            {
                "username": "keir2",
                "listen_count": 23261
            },
            {
                "username": "frazda",
                "listen_count": 20491
            },
            {
                "username": "mischiamnesiac",
                "listen_count": 20203
            },
            {
                "username": "Mergzo",
                "listen_count": 18242
            },
            {
                "username": "florianec",
                "listen_count": 17349
            },
            {
                "username": "arkruffian",
                "listen_count": 17252
            },
            {
                "username": "duncethethird",
                "listen_count": 16768
            }
        ],
        "artist_mbid": "a74b1b7f-71a5-4011-9441-d0b5e4122711",
        "total_listens": 6568747,
        "total_listeners": null
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-13T14:11:34.419Z",
        "request_id": "21e30aa4-ceb1-4ba3-bc06-b570a4abc22b"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Artist listeners retrieved successfully",
    "success": true
}