Spotify Wrapped 2024: What to expect when it arrives

NEW YORK (AP) – It’s almost that time of year: Spotify is preparing to release its annual Wrapped, personal summary of users’ listening habits and year in audio.

Spotify has been giving its listeners breakdowns of their data since 2016. And every year it’s become a bigger production – and internet sensation. said Spotify its 2023 wrapped up was the “largest ever created” in terms of audience reach and the kind of data it provided.

So what will 2024 hold? Here’s a look at what you need to know ahead of this year’s Spotify Wrapped.

What exactly is Spotify Wrapped?

It is the streaming service’s annual overview of individual listening trends, as well as trends around the world. Users learn their top artists, 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.

Previous iterations have given users all sorts of breakdowns and facts, including whether they’re among an artist’s top listeners, as well as a personal playlist of their top 100 songs of that year that they can save, share and listen to whenever they feel like it. nostalgic.

Spotify also creates a series of playlists that reflect national and global listening trends, featuring the best streamed artists and songs. In 2023, Taylor Swift was Spotify’s most streamed artistthat deposed Bad Bunny, who had held the title for three consecutive years.

Every year has something new in store. In 2019, Wrapped included an overview of user streaming trends for the entire decade. Last year, Spotify matched listeners to a Sound Town based on their artist affiliation and how it fit with them in other parts of the world.

When is the expected release date?

So far, the streaming platform has kept the much-anticipated release date of Wrapped under … er, wraps.

In recent years, it has been released after Thanksgiving between November 30 and December 6.

Every year, rumors tend to swell on social media around when Spotify will stop collecting data to prepare their Wrapped results, and this year was no exception. Spotify quickly shattered these presumptionsassuring on social media that “Spotify Wrapped doesn’t stop counting on October 31st.”

A representative for Spotify did not respond to a request for comment on when the company will stop tracking data for Wrapped.

Where can I find my Spotify Wrapped?

When Wrapped is released, each user’s Spotify account will prompt them to view their interactive data collection. It can be accessed via the Spotify smartphone app or via Log in to Spotify’s website. Wrapped is available to users with and without Premium subscriptions.

What else can I learn with my Spotify data?

There are a handful of third-party sites that you can connect your Spotify account to that analyze your packed data.

How bad is your Spotify is an AI bot that judges your music taste. Receipt brings you your best songs on a shareable graphic that looks like, well, a receipt. Instafest giving you your own personal music festival style based on your top artists. How NPRCore are you assesses how similar your music tastes are to NPR Musics.

What if I 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.

Replay of Apple Music not only gives its subscribers a year-end overview of their listening habits, but also monthly recaps — a feature that helps differentiate itself from the one-off Spotify recap. It is published at the end of the calendar year.

YouTube Music, meanwhile, has a similar year-end release for its listeners, as well as periodic seasonal releases throughout the year. It released its annual Recap for users earlier this month.