When Is Spotify Wrapped 2024?
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Hint: it’s later than usual
Every winter, music lovers wait with bated breath to see Spotify’s analysis of their listening habits. With funky colours, shareable infographics and cryptic ‘auras’ (in 2023, anyway) that come to define your entire personality – online, at least – Spotify Wrapped Day has morphed into something of a cult-followed holiday. So when will it land in 2024? Here’s what you need to know.
Spotify Wrapped 2024: Release Date, Themes & More
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What Is Spotify Wrapped?
Spotify Wrapped is an annual feature of the music streaming service, providing users with statistical insight into their listening habits over the past year. The data is presented to the user in an Instagram-story style slideshow with aesthetic infographics available to easily download and share on various social media platforms.
While specific themes and categories vary year on year (from your listening ‘aura’ to your adventurousness), every year the data includes your top artists, top songs, preferred genres and the biggie: your total minutes spent listening. Another feature that reveals hearty competition among music stans is the top artist result, which comes with an extra layer: Spotify will tell you what percentile of listeners you are in, with fans competing for the coveted 0.001 percent slot (the perfect infographic for some online boasting).
Spotify also reveals data gathered from all of its users across the globe (of which there are a whopping 640 million), meaning your results can be compared on a global scale. At the end, listeners are presented with a special 2024 playlist titled ‘Your Top Songs’, containing your top 100 listened to songs.
When Is Spotify Wrapped 2024?
No specific news just yet on when our Spotify Wrapped analyses will land, though the music streaming platform has assured us it is ‘coming soon’, adding ‘good things come to those who wait’.
As we move deeper into December, Spotify Wrapped is increasingly delayed: in recent years, it has landed at the very end of November. However, if we trace the dates further back, Spotify seems to release Wrapped on the final Wednesday of November or the first Wednesday of December. This means Spotify Wrapped 2024 could drop tomorrow, 4 December 2024.
The previous release dates are:
- 2023: 29 November
- 2022: 30 November
- 2021: 1 December
- 2020: 2 December
- 2019: 5 December
- 2018: 6 December
- 2017: 6 December
Spotify Wrapped is big news: with 640 million users across the globe, in 2023, the music streaming platform revealed more than a third of its listeners engaged with their personalised Wrapped content.
How Can I Access Spotify Wrapped?
Spotify Wrapped is available to all Spotify users, including those with free accounts. The day it drops, Wrapped pops up on your homepage as soon as you open the app – though technical glitches as millions of people flock to the platform can cause delays.
For a user to qualify, Spotify says they must have listened to enough music to extract data from – ‘a few hours’ will reportedly do the trick. For an individual song to qualify, it must have been listened to for at least 30 seconds.
Finally, the key facet to ensure you are involved: you must have a Spotify account. That said, Apple has introduced a competitor year in music feature, too, called ‘Replay’, while YouTube Music has ‘Recap’, Tidal has ‘Rewind’ and Deezer presents ‘My Deezer Year’.
