Your Guide to Spotify Wrapped, 2024

Your Guide to Spotify Wrapped, 2024

TThe end of the year is just around the corner and the 2024 edition of Spotify Wrapped is here.

The annual roundup of the music you’ve listened to the most began as a marketing tactic in 2016 and has since become a staple of pop culture, imitated by rival streaming platforms like Apple Music and Amazon Music, as well as other services like Duolingo and Reddit.

Spotify’s personalized insights are presented in fun, shareable graphics, and the package includes several unique features – from video messages from artists to Your Music Evolution, which analyzes how your tastes have changed over the year, and even new artificial intelligence twists.

Here’s what you should know when this year’s Wrapped starts on Wednesday.

How can users access their Spotify Wrapped for 2024?

Subscribed Spotify users, even if they don’t have Premium, can access their personalized Wrapped experience on the mobile or desktop app (make sure you’ve downloaded the latest version). The wrapped feed is displayed on the app’s homepage and can be accessed directly via this link.

What’s new in 2024 Wrapped?

In addition to presenting your annual lists of the most streamed artists and songs, 2024 Wrapped introduces Your Music Evolution Feature that uses your listening data to show how your music choices have changed over the year. Users receive descriptions of up to three musical “phases” characterized by specific genres and artists.

With the new Longest Listening Streak highlight, users can now also see the artist they liked most this year, while Spotify brings back Top Listeners, which reveals what your percentage is among your favorite artist’s listeners.

AI will also play a larger role at Wrapped this year: This year, users will receive a personalized podcast about their music listening, provided by generative AI hosts and created with Google’s NotebookLM. According to Spotify, this feature will be available in English for a limited time in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States for eligible users

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Spotify is also integrating Wrapped into its popular existing AI features, including AI DJ, which informs users about their listening year and even their personal relationship with AI DJ, and AI Playlists, which allows premium users to create personalized playlists with Wrapped Data.

Data tracking begins in January and ends a few weeks before launch.

The top charts 2024

For the second year in a row, Taylor Swift, TIME’s 2023 Person of the Year, was the most-listened-to artist on the platform with more than 26.6 billion streams worldwide. She is followed by The Weeknd and Bad Bunny. (Spotify counts a stream when a user listens for 30 seconds or longer.)

Unsurprisingly, Swift also takes the top spot on the most-streamed albums list this year The Tortured Poets Section: the anthology. Albums by female artists dominated the Spotify list this year: that of Billie Eilish Hit me hard and soft came second, while Sabrina Carpenter’s Short and sweet came third.

Carpenter’s “Espresso” was the most streamed song of the year with more than 1.6 billion streams. Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” and Eilish’s “BIRDS OF A FEATHER” each took the next two spots.

Joe Rogans The Joe Rogan Experience claims the title of most-streamed podcast on Spotify for the fifth year in a row, and Spotify also introduced its first most-streamed audiobook in Premium: Fantasy Romance A court of thorns and roses by Sarah J. Maas.

How can I share and assess my listening habits?

Spotify encourages users to share their Wrapped results on social media, particularly Instagram and TikTok, with which Spotify launched custom integrations last month.

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A number of third-party applications that you can connect your Spotify account to can also analyze your listening data. For example: How bad is your music streaming? uses AI to judge your taste; Instafest creates a music festival line-up for you based on your favorite artists; and Receiptify summarizes your hearing statistics in the form of a receipt.

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