The Simple Truth About How Your Wrapped Comes to Life

Every minute matters. This story sums up all the time you spent listening this year, whether you were bingeing podcasts at 1.5x speed or getting lost in playlists in Private Mode. Here’s a breakdown of how we calculate your total minutes listened, displayed in both minutes and days.

• It includes everything: Private Mode sessions, content marked Exclude from Taste Profile, and even tracks filtered out from Wrapped’s taste-based stories like white noise. 
• Wrapped’s total minutes reflect your actual listening time, not the length of the content. So if you listen to a podcast at 2x speed, we’ll only count the actual minutes you spent listening.

Your Top Genres is based on a genre-tagging system that categorizes tracks in our catalog. Here’s how we determine them.

• Each track is tagged with relevant genres, and we calculate a score for every genre you listened to based on streams of the associated tracks.
• We aim to identify at least three of your top genres across your listening habits.
• We also show the total number of genres you explored throughout the year.

Your Top Songs highlights the tracks that defined your year. If you’ve streamed at least 30 tracks, we’ll rank them based on how often you’ve listened to each one.

Albums make the list when you’ve listened to at least 70% of an album’s tracks, whether from the album page, within playlists, or any other place on Spotify.

• You need to have listened to at least one album to see this within the Wrapped experience, and at least three albums to unlock your full Top Albums list.
• Albums are ranked by how often you played their tracks and how evenly you listened across all of them.
• You might notice more than one version of an album in your top five if the artist put out multiples.
• Singles, EPs, and compilations aren’t included as albums.

Your Top Podcasts reflects the voices and stories that kept you company throughout the year. They’re ranked by the time you spent listening across episodes and days.

• You need to have listened to at least one podcast for a minimum of 60 minutes across three or more episodes on three or more different days. They’re ranked by total minutes listened.
• Your Top Podcasts also shows how many minutes you spent listening and the global fan percentile you belong to.

Your Top Audiobook Genre reflects what you listened to most this year, based on total time spent with audiobooks in that category.

• An audiobook counts toward your top genre once you’ve completed at least 70% of it.
• The highlighted audiobook is the one you spent the most time with in your top genre. We also highlight the number of audiobooks you explored, counting any with 70% completion or at least 60 minutes of listening.

These are the artists who shaped your year. We show you your total minutes listened and global fan percentile. 

• We count every play, giving the spotlight to the main artist you listened to on each track, while featured artists on those same tracks receive supporting credit. 
• We then compare your listening to fans around the world to see where you rank in an artist’s top percentages.

Get ready to brag. Unlocking the Fan Leaderboard means you’re officially one of your top artist’s biggest fans, based on how many minutes you’ve spent listening. Keep an eye out for other fans you’ll “fly by” from around the world along the way.

• Only the very top listeners of their top artist are shown the ranks, and the exact amounts vary by artist, but in the range of 10 to 999,999.

Your Top 5 Artist Sprint shows the journey of how you listened to your top five artists throughout the year. Artists appear “sprinting” across the screen, with their positions indicating how your listening shifted month by month. Up to three personalized race callouts showcase your top moments, such as listening streaks, favorite tracks, and album stats. 

• To see this, you need to have listened to one of your top five artists over a period of more than two months during the year.
• These are the different types of callout that can appear: day streaks or total streams for an artist, track, or album within each month. We then select the ones that are most noteworthy for each user.

Your Club captures the emotional qualities of your year in music. That includes the moods, genres, and musical terms that defined what you listened to most.

• Each track is tagged with descriptors, for example, “heartbreak” and “yearning,” because of the titles of the user playlists that it appears on. 
• These descriptors roll up into six possible Clubs. For each of the six, we calculate a score based on streams and assign you the Club with the highest score.
• Your role in a Club is determined by your standout on-platform behavior and listening compared to the rest of your Club.

Your Listening Age is based on the idea of a “reminiscence bump,” which is the tendency to feel most connected to the music from your younger years. 

• First, we look at the release dates of all of the songs you played this year. 
• Next, we identify the five-year span of music that you engaged with more than other listeners your age. 
• We’re hypothesizing that this five-year span matches your “reminiscence bump,” assuming you were between 16 and 21 years old when those tracks were released.
• For example, if you listen to way more music from the late 1970s than others your age, we playfully hypothesize that your “listening” age is 63 today, the age of someone who would have been in their formative years in the late 1970s.
• To receive Your Listening Age, we needed a reported date of birth in your account of 1925 or more recent, plus five streams within a five-year release date band.

This feature delivers users a unique report of their listening for a selection, in English, of special days throughout the year, including Your Biggest Discovery Day, Your Biggest Listening Day, and Most Nostalgic Day. 

• First we map your listening to our menu of special days to identify which you are eligible for, and then we pick up to five of the best days.
• Once those days are selected, we use AI for this feature to generate a summary report for each. Summaries can include the artists, podcasts, and audiobooks you listened to.
• In order to see your Listening Archive, you must have more than 20 days of significant listening and be eligible for two special days.