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Last.fm User Search Guide

Find a Last.fm listening profile, from recent scrobbles to charts of favourite artists and albums.

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About Last.fm profiles

How Last.fm usernames work

Every Last.fm profile sits under /user/ followed by the username, as in the pattern above, and the site serves it at www.last.fm. The profile is built by scrobbling: Last.fm records the music a person plays through connected apps and adds it to their music profile, producing charts of top artists, albums and tracks from the last 7 days to all time, plus their full listening history. Current usernames are 2 to 15 characters, start with a letter, and use letters, numbers, underscores, or hyphens; older names may follow different rules.

Typical profile URL: https://last.fm/user/<handle>

Tips for finding accounts

Last.fm’s site search covers music rather than members. Follow a published profile link or a member’s following list. Developers can also use the API method user.getInfo.

Profile visibility

A Last.fm profile is mostly music data. Members can hide recent listening information, and Last.fm support said in April 2025 that a member cannot fully stop someone from viewing a profile, because a logged-out visitor can still open it. Scrobbling apps can also keep using an old username after a rename. ProfileTrace includes Last.fm among the ~4,000 sites it checks for an exact username, but it only sees public profile pages, not account email or settings.

More about Last.fm

What this service is

Last.fm is a music tracking service built on scrobbling, the automatic logging of songs a person plays in other apps and services. Its profiles are unusual among social sites: instead of posts and photos, they show years of listening data, which is useful for confirming that a long-running account is genuine but rarely identifies who is behind it.

Username and URL behavior

Only Last.fm Pro members can change their username, from account settings via an emailed link. There is no limit on the number of changes, but the old username immediately becomes available for other users to register, and it stays that way even if Pro is cancelled. Deleting an account does not free its username, and Last.fm does not release old, unused names. Source: Last.fm Support: Can I change my Last.fm username?

Links and account details

The listening history is the signal: how long the account has been scrobbling, which artists dominate, and whether recent plays fit the person you expect. A years-long history that matches someone's known taste is strong evidence of continuity for that account, while a fresh account with few plays proves very little. Recent listening can be hidden, so a missing recent tracks list is a privacy setting, not a red flag.

Common impersonation pattern

The Last.fm-specific trap comes from its rename rules: when a Pro member renames, the old username is immediately available to anyone, so a link to last.fm/user/oldname posted years ago can now open a stranger's profile. Check that the listening history under a name you found in an old post actually continues from the period when that post was made.

How to report a concern

Report offensive shouts from the menu on the shout and offensive images with the Report this image as inappropriate link. Harassment, spam, trolling, offensive avatars and about-me text go to a member of the moderation team by private message on the support forums, not in public threads. Add unwanted users to your ignore list to block shouts, messages and follows. See Last.fm: Reporting abuse to the moderation team.

Last.fm Verification Checklist

Check the profile

  • Get the exact username from a place the person controls, such as a bio link or shared profile URL.
  • Open last.fm/user/username and confirm the page is a user profile, not an artist page with a similar name.
  • Check how long the account has been scrobbling and whether the history is continuous.
  • Allow for a Pro rename if an old link no longer works, and remember the old name may belong to someone else now.

What to do with the results

  • Save the last.fm/user address and the date you viewed it.
  • Note when scrobbling started on the account, so later comparisons have a reference point.
  • Check the handle on other music and social sites and compare the taste and dates you see there.
  • Recheck later, since a Pro rename moves the history to a new name and frees the old one.

Checks and reporting on Last.fm

Signs of a copied account

  • An old last.fm/user link that now opens an account with little or unrelated listening history.
  • Shouts or messages that push outside links or payment requests.
  • Offensive or copied avatars and about-me text aimed at another member.
  • Repeated contact after you have added the account to your ignore list.

Check the account

  • Compare top artists and recent plays with music the person talks about elsewhere.
  • Check whether the person's other public profiles link to this exact Last.fm username.
  • Look for scrobbles from the period a link or post was published to confirm the account is the same one.
  • Treat a matching username alone as weak, since renamed Last.fm names can be re-registered immediately.

Report a copied account

  1. Save the profile URL and screenshots of the shouts, images or messages involved.
  2. Report individual shouts from the shout menu and images with the report link below them.
  3. Send harassment, spam or avatar problems privately to a Last.fm moderator on the support forums.
  4. Add the account to your ignore list and set Accept messages from to users you follow only.

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