Every winter, music fans worldwide eagerly await Spotify Wrapped, the streaming service’s year-end recap of personal listening habits. With vibrant visuals, shareable graphics, and interactive features, Wrapped has grown into a cultural event, combining music, social sharing, and friendly competition.
What Is Spotify Wrapped?
Spotify Wrapped is an annual feature offered to all Spotify users, including free accounts, that summarizes a listener’s year in music. The recap highlights:
- Top artists
- Top songs
- Favorite genres
- Total minutes listened
The results are displayed in an Instagram-story-style slideshow, complete with aesthetic infographics designed for easy sharing across social media platforms. Some past versions have also included a “listening aura,” showing a playful take on your musical personality.
Wrapped also ranks users globally, allowing fans to see how their listening compares to millions of others, including what percentile they fall into for specific artists. Finally, Spotify generates a curated playlist called “Your Top Songs”, featuring the top 100 tracks you streamed during the year.
Spotify Wrapped 2025: Release Date
Spotify has not confirmed an exact release date for 2025, but the feature typically launches in late November or early December. Historical release dates suggest Spotify Wrapped 2025 is likely to appear between December 3 and 5.
| Year | Release Date |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 December |
| 2023 | 29 November |
| 2022 | 30 November |
| 2021 | 1 December |
| 2020 | 2 December |
| 2019 | 5 December |
On December 1, 2025, Spotify teased the feature’s arrival, confirming Wrapped is “coming soon.”
How to Access Spotify Wrapped
To view your Wrapped recap:
- Update your Spotify app to the latest version on iOS or Android.
- Once released, open Spotify and look for the Wrapped section on your homepage.
- Scroll through your top songs, artists, genres, and personalized playlists.
To qualify, users must have listened to enough music over the year — typically “a few hours” is sufficient — and individual tracks must have been streamed for at least 30 seconds. Note that listening from December is not included in the analysis.
The Cultural Impact of Wrapped
Since its launch in 2015 (originally called Year in Music), Spotify Wrapped has become a global phenomenon:
- Over 700 million Spotify users worldwide now participate.
- In 2023, more than a third of Spotify listeners engaged with their personal Wrapped content.
- Wrapped has inspired similar annual recaps across other platforms, such as Apple Music Replay, YouTube Music Recap, Tidal Rewind, and Deezer My Year.
The popularity of Wrapped extends beyond music, reflecting broader trends in personalized analytics. Many apps now offer yearly summaries for fitness, shopping, reading, and even banking, often paired with shareable visuals.
Why Spotify Wrapped Matters
Spotify Wrapped is more than just a recap of songs played — it has become a social media event, influencing music trends and sparking online conversations. Fans use the shareable graphics to showcase their tastes, compete for bragging rights over top artists, and discover new music through personalized playlists.
