When will Spotify Wrapped 2024 be released? All about this year’s music recap

Spotify Wrapped kicks off the Christmas season with one of the greatest gifts of all to music lovers: their annual listening experience in a nutshell.

The music streaming app began releasing an annual summary personally curated for each user in 2016. Since then, Spotify Wrapped has quickly taken off and is now shared by hundreds of millions of fans each year on their social media profiles.

In recent years, Spotify has expanded its Wrapped to include personal messages from artists to fans and statistics about who the most streamed singers were that year, with Taylor Swift saying no. 1 spot from Bad Bunny in 2023, ending his two-year streak (he was close behind at No. 2).

So when is Spotify Wrapped 2024 coming out? Here’s everything we know so far about the streaming platform’s highly anticipated recaps.

What is Spotify Wrapped?

Every year Spotify releases their annual roundup called Spotify Wrapped. Each Spotify user receives an individual collection summarizing their listening habits that year, including data such as their most listened to artists, songs, albums and podcasts.

The streaming app also tweaks the Wrapped experience annually with various new interactive elements. In 2023, this included finding out the listener’s aura and which city in the world listened to the type of music most similar to them.

Spotify also publishes Wrapped for artists, which shows their top songs, the number of minutes their music was streamed and where in the world people listened to them the most.

When will Spotify Wrapped be released in 2024?

The Spotify Wrapped release date has never been shared in advance, with the music platform typically surprising the wrap-up.

When has Spotify Wrapped been released before?

In recent years, Spotify Wrapped has been released mid-week in the last week of November or the first week of December.

Until 2021, the streamer released the summary in the first few days of December. But for the last two years it has been published on the last Wednesday of November.

2023: Wednesday 29 November

2022: Wednesday 30 November

2021: Wednesday 1 December

2020: Tuesday 1 December

2019: Thursday 5 December

2018: Thursday 6 December

2017: Wednesday 6 December

How can you check your Spotify Wrapped when it’s out?

When Spotify releases Wrapped, the package should be available on a user’s homepage when they open the mobile app. It appears as a banner on the home screen, but can also be searched by typing “wrapped”.

If you access it on a desktop, a listener can go to the official Spotify Wrapped landing page and log into their account to view their annual custom summary.

When will Spotify Wrapped stop counting your data?

The question of when Spotify stops tracking a person’s listening data has been called into question after an employee at the streamer told Newsweek in 2021, that the collection ends on 31 Oct.

“The reason we have this hard cut-off is just for campaign logistics,” Brendan Codey, associate director of creator growth and programs at Spotify, told the outlet.

“We have to quality-assure the site and we have to finalize assets for Wrapped, all of which take a while. Throw Thanksgiving into the mix and we have even less time,” he added.

This would mean that all listening experiences in November and December would be excluded from the data, as the platform will only start tracking Wrapped again in January.

However, Spotify denied this claim in a 2023 post X (formerly Twitter), writes: “Hmm, doesn’t sound right to us. Don’t worry, Wrapped still counts after October 31st .”