Spotify Wrapped 2024: What does your recap look like?

NEW YORK (AP):

It’s that time of year again: Spotify has released its annual Wrapped, offering personalised recaps of users’ listening habits and their year in audio. Since 2016, Spotify has provided listeners with detailed breakdowns of their data, with each year becoming a larger production and a bigger internet sensation. The company described its 2023 Wrapped as the “biggest ever created,” citing its audience reach and the depth of data offered.

So, what does 2024 have in store? Here’s a look at what to know:

Spotify Wrapped is a streaming service’s annual overview of individual listening trends, as well as trends around the world. Users learn their top artistes, songs, genres, albums and podcasts, all wrapped into one interactive presentation.

The campaign has become a social media sensation, as people share and compare their Wrapped data with their friends and followers online.

Wrapped provides users with all kinds of breakdowns and facts, including whether they’re among an artiste’s top listeners, as well as a personalised playlist of their top 100 songs of that year to save, share and listen to whenever they’re feeling nostalgic.

Spotify also creates a series of playlists that reflect national and global listening trends, featuring the top streamed artistes and songs. In 2023, Taylor Swift was named Spotify’s most streamed artiste, unseating Bad Bunny who had held the title for three years in a row. She kept that title this year, followed by The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, Drake and Billie Eilish.

In order to find your Spotify Wrapped, you should make sure your Spotify app is up to date in order to get the full Wrapped experience. Wrapped is available to users with and without Premium subscriptions.

Starting on Wednesday, Spotify prompted users to view their interactive data round-up on their smartphone or desktop app. You can also visit Spotify.com/Wrapped to find a QR code for that takes you straight to your data presentation.

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There are a handful of third-party sites that you can connect your Spotify account to that will analyse your Wrapped data. ‘How Bad is Your Spotify’ is an AI bot that judges your music taste. Receiptify gives you your top songs on a shareable graphic that looks like, yes, a receipt. Instafest gives you your own personal music festival-style lineup based on your top artistes. If you don’t have Spotify, other major streaming platforms such as Apple Music and YouTube Music have developed their own versions of Wrapped in recent years. Apple Music’s Replay not only gives its subscribers a year-end digest of their listening habits but monthly summaries as well – a feature that helps differentiate itself from the one-time Spotify recap. It was released on December 3. YouTube Music, meanwhile, has a similar end-of-the-year release for its listeners, as well as periodic seasonal releases throughout the year. It released its annual Recap for users last month.