It’s Spotify Wrapped season, which suggests social media customers can as soon as once more scrutinize and share their listening habits with their pals.
The platform’s personalised end-of-year person streaming knowledge launched Wednesday, bringing a flood of social media posts from folks revealing their prime listens of 2024.
This yr, Spotify unveiled a function known as “music evolution,” which permits customers to look at their altering preferences over the yr. Similar to Spotify’s “daylist,” it can give customers personalised, area of interest music profiles to explain their style throughout these “phases.” Users also can see what their longest listening streaks are for his or her prime artists.
Spotify additionally launched a private AI-generated podcast that provides customers overviews of their listening habits. The podcast was made utilizing Google’s Notebook LM app, which went viral this yr for its means to create abstract podcasts with realistic-sounding hosts from folks’s notes.
As normal, Spotify additionally included an inventory of the worldwide artists, podcasts and authors who acquired probably the most streams this yr.
Unsurprisingly, Taylor Swift, who has had a dominant couple of years along with her Eras Tour and the discharge of her newest album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” snagged the highest artist spot. She amassed over 26.6 billion streams this yr, in keeping with Spotify.
The Weeknd and Bad Bunny have been the second and third most-streamed artists, respectively.
Despite Drake’s not too long ago accusing Spotify and Universal Music Group of artificially inflating the streaming numbers for Kendrick Lamar’s diss monitor towards him, “Not Like Us,” Drake was nonetheless the fourth most-streamed artist this yr. Billie Eilish adopted him within the No. 5 spot.
Meanwhile, “Not Like Us” didn’t land on the highest international songs record, nevertheless it was the second most-streamed music within the U.S. this yr. The monitor had over 928 million streams Wednesday morning.
The most-streamed music globally, in keeping with Spotify, was Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso,” which had over 1.6 billion streams Wednesday morning.
On the podcast entrance, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” and “This Past Weekend with Theo Von” have been among the many prime 5 podcasts globally. The exhibits made headlines this yr when Rogan and Von every hosted President-elect Donald Trump forward of the election and Cooper hosted Vice President Kamala Harris.
Spotify additionally revealed its first prime international audiobooks record after it launched 15 free hours of audiobook listening to its Premium subscribers final yr. BookTok favourite creator Sarah J. Maas took the No. 1 spot along with her e book “A Court of Thorns and Roses” and the No. 3 spot with its sequel, “A Court of Mist and Fury.”