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Spotify Wrapped: The Streamer's Annual Listening Recap
Spotify Wrapped, the much-awaited annual listening summary, has finally arrived. It not only provides a personalized overview of your favorite artists, songs, podcasts, and more but also introduces two exciting new features this year. One of the notable additions is an AI-powered podcast created with Google's NotebookLM, giving you an in-depth look at your 2024 listening habits. Another new feature is the "Your Music Evolution" data story, which allows you to trace how your musical interests have changed over the past year.
Previously, Spotify built its Wrapped features in-house. But this year, they are collaborating with an outside partner on a flagship Wrapped feature using Google's Gemini AI. This enables you to explore a personalized audio overview of your music listening in 2024, including top songs, artists, genres, and more. It feels like listening to a podcast about your Wrapped.
The Addition of Google's AI Notetaking Tool
The addition of Google's AI notetaking tool, NotebookLM, has been a breakout moment. People started using its Audio Overview feature to create conversations between two AI hosts, leading to interesting insights and humorous commentary. Spotify was inspired by this and decided to work with Google on the new Wrapped feature.
When you play your Wrapped "podcast" from the Home screen of the Spotify app, the AI hosts will compliment your music taste and summarize your listening activity. You can also save the AI-created audio clip to your mobile device or share it on social media. This feature is available to both free and paid users in English in several countries like the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, and Sweden for a limited time.
Expanding Social Media Integrations
Spotify is also expanding its social media integrations to include sharing on TikTok. This is an ideal way to share the new personalized AI audio experiences. While the AI podcast is likely to be a hit on social media, it feels somewhat iterative compared to last year's addition of the AI DJ feature.
The AI DJ feature integrates your Wrapped into its spoken commentary and stories. It is available in both English and Spanish, offering AI-generated commentary around your top artists and songs. This year, you have two AI speakers instead of one, adding a new dimension to your musical history.
AI Playlists for Premium Subscribers
Another AI feature is aimed at Premium subscribers. They can enter prompts to generate AI playlists based on their Wrapped experience, building on the existing AI playlist feature launched in April. For example, you can prompt Spotify to play more artists like your top 5 Wrapped artists.
Personalized Data Stories and More
Wrapped didn't introduce as many new personalized data stories as in previous years. However, the "Your Music Evolution" feature is a significant addition. It tracks up to three distinct musical phases you went through during the year, providing a unique perspective on your musical journey.
Audiobooks are also a new addition to Wrapped in 2024. The Spotify audiobooks catalog has doubled to over 300,000 titles, and Wrapped includes a new audiobooks editorial hub. It offers a dedicated Wrapped experience for authors and publishers to see how their work was engaged with by Spotify users.
Other areas of the Wrapped experience have also been updated. The Top 5 Artists Story now shows your "Longest Listening Streak." When sharing music or podcasts, Spotify tells you if it's in your top 100 songs, top 20 artists, or top 5 podcasts. The "Top Listeners" feature is back, allowing you to brag to friends about your long-time love for a favorite artist.
Artist video clips are making a comeback, with thousands of artists sharing messages to top fans. This year, Wrapped also adds Podcaster Clips, with video messages from popular podcasters like Emma Chamberlain, Ashley Flowers, Markiplier, Steven Bartlett, and others. In celebration of Top Artist Taylor Swift, there are several Easter Eggs in the app with Era-themed animations.
Top Spotify Lists of 2024
The company also revealed its top lists for 2024. The top artists are Taylor Swift (26.6 billion streams, 2nd year in a row), The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, Drake, and Billie Eilish (back for the 2nd time since 2019). The top songs are Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso" (1.6+ billion streams), Benson Boone's "Beautiful Things," Billie Eilish's "Birds of a Feather," FloyyMenor and Cris Mj's "Gata Only," and Teddy Swims' "Lose Control". The top albums are Taylor Swift's "The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology," Billie Eilish's "Hit Me Hard and Soft," Sabrina Carpenter's "Short N’ Sweet," Karol G's "Mañana Sera Bonito," and Ariana Grande's "Eternal Sunshine". The most viral songs are "Die With A Smile" by Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga, "Birds of a Feather" by Billie Eilish, "Beautiful Things" by Benson Boone, "Lose Control" by Teddy Swims, and "Good Luck, Babe!" by Chappell Roan. The top podcasts are The Joe Rogan Experience, Call Her Daddy, Huberman Lab, This Past Weekend with Theo Von, and The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett. The most anticipated podcasts in the US are Mind the Game with Lebron James & JJ Redick, Talk Tuah with Haliey Welch, Drowning Creek, Hysterical, and Dateline's Murder in the Hollywood Hills. The top audiobooks are "A Court of Thorns & Roses" by Sarah J. Maas, "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien, "I’m Glad My Mom Died" by Jennette McCurdy, "A Court of Mist and Fury" by Sarah J. Maas, and "It Ends With Us" by Colleen Hoover.
Unlock the Magic of Personalized Music Summaries
Amazon Music
This year, Amazon Music introduced a new Spotify Wrapped knockoff called "2024 Delivered." It provides a summary of users' listening stats, including top artists, songs, and podcasts. The platform also utilizes Amazon's virtual assistant, Alexa, to give users a special message from their favorite artist. You can find this feature by tapping the Library page. Previously, Amazon Music's equivalent was "My Year in Review," a playlist featuring 50 to 100 popular tracks based on yearly statistics, available in the "Playlists" section or "Made For You."Amazon Music takes pride in offering a comprehensive overview of users' music consumption, helping them relive their musical journey of the year.Apple Music
Apple-owned Apple Music rolled out its "Replay" experience in 2019. It offers a summary of top songs, artists, albums, genres, playlists, and stations, along with play counts and total listening time. You can share personalized listening data on social media, and a year-end highlight reel provides an audio and visual recap.This year, a new feature called "listening streaks" was added, showing the days when you listened to music the longest. It also brought the experience to the mobile app, after being previously available only on the Replay website. Additionally, a monthly version of Replay was launched earlier this year, allowing access to monthly music habits.For Apple Books users, there's a Year in Review feature that showcases books and audiobooks read throughout the year, accessible in the Apple Books app by selecting the green "Year in Review" icon.Apple Music truly stands out by providing a detailed and immersive music experience throughout the year.Deezer
Deezer offers a yearly roundup called "My Deezer Year," summarizing music consumption with top songs, genres, most-listened-to albums, and favorite artists. What makes it unique is the option to be "roasted" or "hyped-up" based on music preferences and a quiz to test friends and family's knowledge of your music taste.Deezer's approach adds an extra layer of fun and engagement to the year-end summary, making it a standout among music streaming apps.SoundCloud
If you're a SoundCloud user, you're in for a treat. The app recently launched its SoundCloud 2024 recap, providing an overview of top five artists, albums, tracks, and moods. It also shows total listening time and offers a playlist with 50 most listened-to songs.SoundCloud's recap is a great way for users to reflect on their musical preferences and discover new favorites.YouTube Music
YouTube Music's Recap feature is personalized and interactive. It includes top five artists, songs, moods, genres, albums, and playlists, along with the longest listening streak and total minutes listened in a year.To access this feature, simply tap on the profile avatar in the top-right corner and select "Your Recap." It's available in both Android and iOS mobile apps.YouTube Music's recap offers a comprehensive view of users' music consumption on the platform.Duolingo
The language learning app Duolingo has also capitalized on Spotify's success with its "Year in Review." It's a 10-page summary revealing learner insights such as total XP earned, longest streak, and ranking compared to other Duolingo users.Duolingo's "Year in Review" provides a unique perspective on language learning and helps users track their progress throughout the year.Mastodon
Social networking app Mastodon launched "Wrapstodon" to give users an overview of their year on the platform. It includes the total number of posts created, new followers added, most boosted post, and most used hashtag.Mastodon's feature allows users to reflect on their social media activity and engagement throughout the year.Netflix Wrapped
Although Netflix doesn't offer its own year-end wrap-up, Kapwing has developed a tool using Netflix viewing data. It provides interesting statistics like "most bingeful day" and total watch time.To use the tool, import your Netflix viewing history and receive insights such as total minutes and days streamed, top shows and movies watched, significant binges, and most-watched movie actor.This tool offers a unique way to analyze Netflix viewing habits.Tinder
The popular dating app Tinder launched the "Year In Swipe Vision Board." It allows users to create personalized mood boards summarizing their dating experiences in 2024 and set "dating intentions" for the upcoming year.Tinder's feature adds a fun and personalized element to dating and helps users reflect on their dating journey.Wrapped for TikTok
In 2020, TikTok launched a feature showing video watch count and engagement. Although it's no longer available, Bennett Hollstein developed a similar tool. Users can export TikTok data by visiting the Settings page, clicking on "Settings and privacy," then "Account," and selecting "Download your data." Choose "JSON – Machine-readable file" as the file format before uploading to "Wrapped for TikTok."Once uploaded, users can view total video watch time, engagement persona, and other statistics."Wrapped for TikTok" offers a way for TikTok users to analyze their video consumption and engagement.Since it's early December, more companies may launch their own annual recaps. Many services have already released year-end wrap-ups in the past, including Goodreads, Hulu, Pandora, PlayStation, Strava, Tidal, and Aldi.The trend of annual recaps continues to grow, providing valuable insights and memories for users across various platforms.