Elizabeth Lee

The arrival of everyone’s personalized Spotify Wrapped is a highly anticipated event that is looked forward to worldwide. This release gives Spotify users the chance to see their most listened to music throughout the year.

When the beginning of December rolled around, everyone was patiently waiting for their personalized Spotify Wrapped to be released. Spotify Wrapped is an annual event where each user is gifted with the statistics behind their most listened to artists, songs, and much more – all put together in a visually aesthetic format.

Some of the specific features that come from your custom Spotify Wrapped includes your top five songs, top five artists, amount of Spotify listening time, peak listening months to specific artists, top podcasts, percentile of fan listening, and artist personalized messages to their fans. While these are all the features on your Wrapped story, more features beyond just this are released simultaneously.

Spotify also releases a five-and-a-half-hour playlist, filled with all the world’s top songs from the course of the year. Another similar playlist is also released, except this playlist is personalized to your music, rather than being generalized to everyone. Along with these playlists, Spotify DJ also kicked off. Spotify DJ is a new form of AI that plays a mix of different music all tailored to your interests. Every five songs, the AI DJ adds commentary and introduces the new music that is coming your way in the upcoming track.

Knowing that Spotify Wrapped is released towards the end of each year, people begin to stream specific songs in the last few months of the year, in hopes that it makes it onto their top five list. As this is a big event for many people, Spotify users often post their Wrapped onto various social media platforms, specifically Instagram stories. Users can showcase their favorite songs and artists to their online followers by streaming specific songs on loop.

A common theme across thousands of peoples’ Wrapped all includes one thing: Taylor Swift ranking in their top five artists. While this isn’t true for everyone, many people worldwide had her featured somewhere on their Wrapped this year. With her Era’s tour and the 1989 (Taylor’s Version) release, garnering copious amounts of streams on her music, she quickly climbed to the top of the charts. In 2023, she had 26.1 billion streams across all her music. This makes her number one on Spotify, along with artists like Bad Bunny, The Weekend, and Drake all following her on the top charts.

With all of its many features, Spotify Wrapped is an event that many users look forward to. Whether you are a Spotify Premium subscriber or someone who uses Spotify Free, each has access to receive their own customized Wrapped. This annual release in December is a great way for all listeners to hear more of their favorite music from throughout the year.