SPOTIFY Wrapped should be a national holiday for music lovers.
With 713 million users and 281 million paying subscribers, Spotify’s users want to know more.
What is Spotify Wrapped?
Spotify Wrapped serves as a retrospective for each listener’s year in music.
It first dropped in December 6, 2016, a rebrand of 2015’s Year in Music.
Using your data each year, it presents every user’s top artists, songs, genres and total listening minutes.
With this comes a nifty playlist of your top 100 songs of the year added to your musical library.
Spotify continually adds new features into Wrapped.
In 2024, they bought in Your Musical Evolution which tracked how your taste changed throughout the year.
They also launched a few AI features for Spotify Wrapped 2024 – an AI playlist about your listening habits, an enhancement of the AI DJ and AI playlists.
The AI playlist can create custom playlists using prompts from your data.
If you ask for playlists like artists similar to my top 5 or my top 5 genres, AI can generate them for you.
In 2019, Spotify Wrapped was a crowd favourite for its nostalgia.
2019 saw the end of the 2010s and to celebrate, Spotify did A Decade Wrapped in which it tracked user’s listening for the whole 10 years.
Spotify Wrapped is calculated by tracking your listening data from January 1 to late November.
It counts any song that is played for at least 30 seconds.
For your total listening minutes it factors in both music and podcast streams.
But don’t worry, any private listening sessions are only included in your total listening hours, they are excluded from the final Wrapped summary.
When is Spotify Wrapped?
Spotify Wrapped this year was released on December 3, 2025.
There has been a new feature added this year to show what your listening age is.
Here are the dates of each Spotify Wrapped so far:
- December 6, 2016
- December 6, 2017
- December 6, 2018
- December 5, 2019
- December 1, 2020
- December 1, 2021
- November 30, 2022
- November 29, 2023
- December 4, 2024
- December 3, 2025
