It’s time for year-end lists, annual roundups, and, in fact, Spotify Wrapped. The standard suspects are right here, like your most listened to track, your whole time listened, and your favourite artist. You additionally get your 2025 Wrapped playlist, which now reveals what number of occasions you listened to every of your prime 100 tracks this yr. However, as typical, Spotify can also be including a ton of latest stuff to its annual custom, together with Wrapped Party, which pits you in opposition to your pals to see who’s the larger (or weirder) music fan.
Wrapped Get together is an interactive function that you just “play” with associates. Granted, there isn’t a lot to truly do, because it’s largely about what you’ve already listened to. You may’t return in time and take heed to a extra obscure track than your pals, or retroactively take heed to extra horror audiobooks. Nonetheless, turning listening to music right into a aggressive sport is certainly a brand new twist on the annual Wrapped custom.
As a part of the competitors, you’ll obtain particular person awards like “The Onion Chopper” for listening to the saddest songs. However your total group might be judged based mostly on how nicely your tastes lineup, from “Copy and Paste” when your listening habits are nearly equivalent, to “Chaos Crew” once you don’t share a single artist in frequent.
Spotify can also be bringing again its interactive track quiz and prime artist dash, which reveals how your prime 5 artists modified month by month. However the firm may even be highlighting our prime albums for the primary time. Prior to now, Wrapped has been fully targeted on particular person songs and on artists or genres. This yr, the corporate is lastly acknowledging that a few of us nonetheless take heed to albums from begin to end. Wrapped 2025 may even go additional past music, highlighting your prime audiobook genres for the primary time.
Two different new options that intention to supply some perception into your listening habits are Clubs and Listening Age. The previous is mainly a extra enjoyable method of approaching your favourite style. Somewhat than merely saying you listened to steel probably the most, you’ll be positioned within the Grit Collective, which “believes in rise up by way of music.” You’ll even be given a job within the membership, corresponding to Scout in the event you are typically on the chopping fringe of up-and-coming artists.
The place Golf equipment foster a way of belonging, Listening Age appears extra designed to focus on the way you won’t slot in along with your technology. It seems at your listening habits and mainly says, “You take heed to the music of a 70-year-old,” even in the event you’re solely 38. Should you’re nonetheless spinning late ’90s Nu Metallic, it’s gonna say your Listening Age is in your early 40s. Listening to stuff that primarily got here out in 2025? Effectively, you would possibly solely be 18 then.
Spotify wasn’t first out of the gate with its annual Wrapped function this yr. Apple Replay launched on Monday, as did Amazon Delivered, and YouTube Music dropped its Recap earlier than Thanksgiving. However whereas it won’t be first, Spotify’s annual recap stays probably the most extravagant.