Spotify Wrapped: users alarmed by their own listening habits

Streaming service gave subscribers a look back at their entire decade of music consumption

Spotify’s annual Wrapped feature, which reveals users’ favourite music from the past year, has been released to its 243 million users, prompting mixed emotions among subscribers.

The feature has become an anticipated event for regular users as it shows their most played songs, top artists, favourite genres and minutes listened for the year. But as 2019 comes to an end the world’s biggest music streaming service took advantage of its 10-year tenure and allowed users to look back at their entire decade of streaming habits.

imagine meeting someone at the start of the year, going on a date, falling in love, introducing them to your family and spending all your time together just for Spotify wrapped to come out in December and their artist of the year is lil xan

my spotify wrapped pic.twitter.com/qnWOMjwT4F

apple music users logging into twitter and seeing everyone posting their 2019 spotify wrapped results pic.twitter.com/Dub9vSXpWV

Spotify wrapped isn’t as fun when you listen to the same sleep tracks every night for 365 days pic.twitter.com/Vh2tuN0Kxe

the hell is up with the spotify wrapped genres pic.twitter.com/YxEQPcZLQd

Starting a support group for everyone who got “pop rap” as their top genre on Spotify rewind