Unveiling Spotify Wrapped, music of your year
Want to find out your favorite music of the year? Spotify Wrapped has you covered.
- Spotify Wrapped is an interactive display of a user’s most-listened-to songs, artists, and genres for the year.
- The streaming service collects user data from January 1 until a few weeks before the feature’s launch.
- Users are being encouraged to update their app to ensure they can experience 2025 Wrapped when it is released.
As the calendar flips to December, Spotify, the global streaming service, still has not yet announced when its popular Wrapped feature will release in 2025, though it did hint the day is not far.
In a Dec. 1 post on social media, Spotify said the feature is “Coming Soon.” The streaming service encouraged users to update their app “to experience 2025 Wrapped at its best,” along with providing a QR code to download the latest version.
If you’re new to Spotify Wrapped, here’s why that matters.
Spotify Wrapped a ‘celebration’ of popular music
Spotify Wrapped has over the years become a cultural phenomenon and a fun way for users to share their favorite songs and artists of the year. Spotify, in a news release for 2024’s Wrapped, described it as a “celebration of the fans, artists, and creators who made this such an amazing year.”
The Swedish music streaming company said the feature gives fans the opportunity “to indulge in what they love, from showing them how their taste in music evolved throughout the year to special messages from their favorite artists and podcasters.”
When will Spotify Wrapped 2025 be released?
We don’t know as of Tuesday morning, Dec. 2.
Spotify has yet to announce when its 2025 Wrapped will drop, though the streaming service said the feature is “Coming Soon” in a Dec. 1 post on social media.
When does Spotify Wrapped come out normally?
Wrapped typically drops in late November or early December. Here’s a look at Spotify Wrapped’s previous release dates:
What is Spotify Wrapped?
Spotify Wrapped first rolled out in 2015 as “Spotify Year in Music” and rebranded to Wrapped in 2016. It is an annual campaign that combines a Spotify user’s listening data into an interactive display of the user’s most-listened-to music. Users are usually alerted about their Spotify Wrapped with a pop-up when they open the Spotify app.
Typically, Spotify Wrapped displays a user’s top songs, artists, and genres. Users are encouraged to share their Spotify Wrapped on social media.
User data is collected from Jan. 1 through the fall of that same year to produce a user’s Spotify Wrapped.
When does Spotify Wrapped stop tracking user data?
Considering that Spotify Wrapped is released ahead of Dec. 31, users wonder when the streamer stops tracking their listening habits for the year.
Though Spotify hasn’t announced what date it will stop tracking listener data for Wrapped this year, the streaming service has said it continues to track user data for Wrapped beyond Oct. 31, contrary to social media posts claiming it stopped on Halloween.
While the exact date and timeline are not known, senior director of product for personalization at Spotify, Molly Holder, told Mashable in 2024 that the streamer tries to include as much time as possible to track listening habits.
“We start at the beginning of January with all of your listening that begins right then at the beginning of the year, and it goes all the way through collecting data up until a few weeks before we launch the Wrapped product,” Holder told the media outlet.
How to check your Spotify Wrapped for 2025
If Spotify sticks to the same process as years past, users will be able to see the results of their Wrapped for the year on their accounts once it releases. Just make sure your app is updated.
Contributing: Anthony Robledo, Greta Cross / USA TODAY. Saman Shafiq is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at sshafiq@gannett.com and follow her on X and Instagram @saman_shafiq7.
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