BY: EMMA NIECE / STAFF WRITER
As 2024 comes to a close, Spotify Wrapped has been released for users to see their personalized musical story in the past year. The music people listen to tells them a lot about themselves.
Spotify wrapped provides users with an opportunity to reflect on their year in music and see how they’ve grown through their listening journey.
This year’s Spotify Wrapped is different from years past as it is heavily AI generated through both design and features, even providing users with a Wrapped AI podcast, where two AI hosts discuss the users’ year in music for about five minutes.
2024 Spotify Wrapped features the amount of minutes streamed, the users top streamed songs, including their most played song, and their top artists along with how many songs the user has played and their biggest listening day of the year.
It even provides users with how many artists they listened to throughout the year and with their top artist and how much time they spent listening to them.
What makes Spotify Wrapped unique and the most appealing among all music apps yearly recaps is it’s intricate design and detail plus the amount of information it provides. 2024 Spotify Wrapped not only shows what users listened to and how often they listened, it also shows their music evolution, providing what type of music they listened to each month, including which genre and artists were most popular for that 28-31 day period.
Many Spotify users felt that this year's Wrapped was underwhelming as it supposedly lacked creativity and authentic detail that were more common in recent years. People missed the personalization that Spotify has provided in the past.
Although Spotify Wrapped is the most popular music yearly recap, most likely because of the detail and animatics that go into its presentation, it isn’t the only platform to share a yearly recap. Many other music platforms provide a yearly summary of their users’ streaming as well.
Apple Music Replay features users’ most listened to artists, albums, and genres from the year. It provides its users with the chance to know whether they are within the top 100, 500, or 1000 listeners of their favorite artists and genres. Moreover, it shows their listening streaks, such as how many consecutive days they’ve spent on Apple Music and how long of a streak they share with their top artist. There’s also a replay by month feature that allows users to see their top song, artist, and album from each month of the year. They can also see the date they first listened to their top song, artist, and album of the year.
YouTube Music recaps their users' year in listening by showing them their top five artists and top five songs of the year, along with their top podcasts and albums, plus how many minutes of music they listened to with YouTube this year.
SoundCloud Playback also has its own feature that creates a playlist of their users' most listened to songs over the past year.
Amazon Music even partakes in a yearly recap, this year’s being named “2024 Delivered.” It contains its users' top songs, artists, and podcasts along with their overall listening time. It also creates a playlist of their favorite songs from the year and a list of any new discoveries they made.
Beyond just music platforms, other popular apps participate in a yearly wrapped feature as well, such as the language learning app Duolingo, which contains a Duolingo Year in Review feature.
It allows users to see their language learning achievements and progress from the past year. It includes statistics such as the number of lessons completed, the number of minutes spent learning, how many words they have learned along with the amount of mistakes they have made.
Google even has a yearly recap feature, called Google Photos, that provides users with their top moments from the last year through a set of memories using graphics and other features based on their photos.
It provides insights from their year based on photos in their camera roll, such as who their took the most photos of and how many of their photos have people smiling in them.
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