That’s the question everyone’s asking: When is this year’s Spotify Wrapped coming out?

The annual personalized playlist with users’ most played songs has become a major event – music lovers are eagerly awaiting the announcement of their music habits.

In addition to the playlist, the music streaming service “summarizes” users’ data by breaking down their favorite artists and genres, total minutes played, and total artists listened to.

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Spotify Wrapped includes data from January to a few weeks before the feature launches.

The deadline will be moved as far into the year as possible to ensure the most personal experience possible, the streaming service told 7NEWS.com.au last year.

In previous years it was released on either the last day of November or the first day of December – whatever a Friday or Saturday was.

Last year the playlist was released on November 29th, while in 2022 it was released on November 30th and in 2021 and 2020 on December 1st.

This means that this year’s Spotify Wrapped is officially late.

Spotify announced the release on Monday, tweeting: “Any guesses on your top 5 songs of 2024?”

Users were unimpressed and responded with memes and calls to “just drop it.”

“Can you literally just post it holy shit,” one user said.

“Girl, just give it to us,” another user said.

The Spotify Wrapped 2024 delay comes a year after the streaming service endured multiple rounds of layoffs.

Last December, the company announced it would lay off 17 percent of its workforce globally, following a 2 percent cut in June 2023 and a 6 percent cut in January 2023.

The total reduction corresponded to around 2,300 jobs.

The move was aimed at reducing costs and offsetting a slowdown in growth, CEO Daniel Ek said at the time.

In an email to employees, Ek said Spotify was taking “significant actions to adjust our costs.”

The company hired too many people in 2020 and 2021, when capital was cheap and tech companies could invest significant sums in team expansion, he said.

Although the job cuts were never announced, users have complained over the past year about declining quality of service.

Users criticized the recommended songs algorithm earlier this year, particularly what they said was excessive promotion of Sabrina Carpenter’s songs Espresso and Please Please Please.

Music enthusiasts documented their streams on the platform and how these songs would be played as a recommended track for songs that users said were in no way related – such as music from the reggaeton and metal genres.

According to the streaming giant, Spotify tested Discovery Mode – which allows “artists and labels to identify priority songs” – in 2020 and later officially opened it to artists.

Artists and labels are not charged upfront costs for Discovery mode, but Spotify receives a commission on revenue from streams in this mode.

It was never officially confirmed whether Sabrina Carpenter’s songs were part of Discovery Mode.

An examination of Australian music charts also found that Spotify and other services such as Apple Music recommend US and British artists more often than local acts.

The research documented a significant decline in Australian artists and artists from non-English speaking countries.

The impact of streaming on the Australian charts has seen the proportion of Australian and New Zealand artists in the top 100 singles charts fall from an average of 16 percent in 2000 to around 10 percent in 2017 and just 2.5 percent in 2017 Year 2017 has fallen to 2023.

This represents an 85 percent decline in the representation of local artists on our charts from 2000 to 2023.

Research director Tim Kelly said Spotify Australia reached out to him after the data was published.

“The people at Spotify Australia reached out to me to hear my findings first-hand,” he said.

“Spotify Aus deserves full credit for being open to listening to research that in some ways challenges their business model,” he said.

-With NBC