Spotify Pie not working?
When a Spotify pie site shows an error, an empty chart or a pie without your favourite artists, the cause in 2026 is usually a change Spotify made to its API, not your account.
Updated 13 November 2026
Spotify closed the door on new sites
Since 15 May 2025 Spotify gives extended access only to organisations with established, scalable use cases. Since 11 February 2026 a new app in development mode needs its owner on Premium, is capped at five users, and can read the songs only of playlists its user owns or collaborates on. A pie site started since then cannot serve the public from its own Spotify app, which is why some sites stop at the sign-in screen.
The pie loads but artists are missing
Spotify’s own reference marks an artist’s genres, popularity and followers as deprecated, and it now returns only 772 genres. Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, The Weeknd, Bruno Mars and Noah Kahan have none. Any site that reads genres live from Spotify leaves those artists out: three in four listeners (75%) lose at least one of their five top artists that way.
What works
- This site signs you in through Trackify, an established Spotify app, and fills the gaps from 6,687 older microgenres and from MusicBrainz, which brings the 75% down to 15.3%.
- A pie of a playlist or of typed artists needs no sign-in at all.