
Apple Music offers a “Apple Music Replay” which ranks all of your songs for the year. Apple Music offers a less superior version of how Spotify ends the year. In response to the popularity of Spotify Wrapped, competitive platforms have also tried to do a recap of the year. Which feels fitting because all of my top five songs are from Olivia Rodrigo’s debut album, SOUR,” Junior Christina Giorgi said.

It was so fun to see a color that matches my music and to see my music can be described as ‘wistful’ and ‘energy’. With an audio aura they also paired two adjectives to go along with the ‘reading.’ Now thanks to Spotify your music taste can now have an aura. An aura reading is a colored radiation that surrounds any human, animal or object. This new feature was mimicking aura readings. This year they even introduced a new audio aura feature.

Sure– that is 165 hours but let’s not talk about that. I also learned that I spent a total of 9,933 minutes listening to Miss Swift. Personally I was in the top 0.5% of Taylor Swift’s listeners. One of the most fun features of Spotify Wrapped is the stats that come along with your top artist. As you tap through your slideshow you can see how many minutes you spent listening and your most listened to song. Instead of just a playlist, the app introduced a slideshow that walks you through your year of music. Over the years Spotify Wrapped has advanced. Now I have a playlist I can listen to and will not be excluded and I am very happy I got to share my Spotify Wrapped stats on my Instagram story,” Junior Bobbi Davidson said. “My friends were encouraging me to get Spotify last year and I am so grateful for them. For me, the Spotify Wrapped release is what truly starts the holiday season. According to Moengage, the first week of December in 2020 led to a 21% increase in app downloads.

Users post on their social media their top artists or songs and has led to a huge increase in downloads. Since then, Spotify Wrapped has been free marketing for the app. In 2016, Spotify started this wrapped experience. In addition, they create a personalized experience for each user whether you use the free or the premium version. Spotify releases general playlists of their most popular music and podcasts listened to on the platform worldwide. Since I have used the app from the beginning, I can fortunately confirm my favorite artist went from One Direction to Harry Styles. I have been eternally grateful to be an avid Spotify user, because the app introduced an end of the year recap feature five years ago. DecemTwo IWU students compare their Spotify Wrapped with each other.
