With the holidays rolling in and the year’s end fast approaching, we’ve made it to the year’s final month. This month, Spotify users finally received their annual “Spotify Wrapped,” a summary of their listening history for the past year. Listeners can view their top artists, songs, and listening trends throughout the year.
A great deal of mixed emotions were shared with the release of this annual end-of-year gift.
Some people didn’t think that the stats were accurate enough.
“I don’t think it was accurate,” Senior Ellery Curtis said. “My number three, four, and five [top artists] are all super random,” she said. “I listened to, like, two songs by them, and now, they’re on my top five.”
More students felt similar to Curtis’s dissatisfaction with Spotify Wrapped. This student disliked specifically this year’s.
“I didn’t like it that much, it wasn’t as good as I thought it would be,” freshman Caleb Miller said. “I like Spotify wrapped, but I don’t like how they did it [this year].”
Lots of students’ wrappeds from this year were similar to their past Wrappeds, with the same top artists during separate years.
“I get TV Girl as my number one every year, so I knew that was gonna happen,” junior Fern Sigurani said.
Senior Blaire Kircos had a similar experience with repetitive stats.
“I’ve had Mitski as my top artist for, like, three years,” they stated.
Admittedly, there were a few oddities about this year’s Spotify Wrapped. “I had TV Girl, Pitbull, which is peak, I had Sabrina Carpenter…” Sigurani stated. “Pitbull was kind of surprising, ‘cause I don’t really listen to him, but I think I might listen to him more,” she said. “I think some of it was kind of questionable, like the songs. The top songs were, like, I don’t think I’ve listened to that since January.”
Without this year’s Wrapped leaving much of a mark on people, some things could be changed. Many were disappointed that artists that they listened to later in the year didn’t show up on their Wrapped.
“Queens of the Stone Age was my number one for, I think, eight months,” senior Brody Duncan said. “A lot of the stuff I listened to from October through December, I wanted to be there earlier in the year, and it was just dominated by one man.”