Unveiling Spotify Wrapped, music of your year
Want to find out your favorite music of the year? Spotify Wrapped has you covered.
The most Instagram-able musical time of the year is around the corner: Spotify Wrapped 2025.
Soon, social media feeds will be populated with pretty, colorful graphs showcasing Spotify users’ musical taste in the most unsuspecting ways.
So when is it coming this year? Here’s everything you need to know about the viral trend:
What is Spotify Wrapped 2025?
Spotify Wrapped is a year-end roundup of the songs, artists, genres, and subgenres you’ve streamed the most.
The Swedish music streaming app has been doing personalized yearly wraps since 2015 when it released what was then called “Year In Review.”
Both free and premium users can grab slides from their “Wrapped” and post them on social media. The slides highlight your most-listened-to artist, favorite genres, and most-played tracks. It also shares insights, like what you listen to in the morning or your music personality.
Wrapped also includes global slides with data from all users, showing the most-streamed songs, artists, and playlists in different parts of the world.
When is Spotify Wrapped 2025 coming out?
The Spotify Wrapped release date is always a surprise. The music app doesn’t announce when it will drop the wrap; we only know that it arrives at the end of the year, typically between the last week of November and the first week of December.
In 2024, the wrap came out on Dec. 4. In 2023 and 2022, it was released on Nov. 29 and Nov. 30, respectively.
How is Spotify Wrapped made?
Spotify creates the personalized slides based on the user’s listening history from Jan. 1 through Oct. 31. Company officials have said it only runs until Oct. 31 for logistics — so that the wrap can come out a month before the year ends.
Spotify Wrapped is not just about what users listen to, but also about how users listen to music and how their listening patterns differ from those of other users. The app uses complex metrics and algorithms to sort all of this information out. In the past, it has used metrics, such as timeless vs. new, and common vs. unique.
Juan Carlos Castillo is a New Jersey-based trending reporter for the USA Today Network. Find him on Twitter at _JCCastillo.
