The hotly anticipated Spotify Wrapped is revealing our prime tracks, artists and albums for 2025.
However how does the streaming service calculate personalised summaries of customers’ listening habits and rank the UK’s hottest artists?
Here is a have a look at how your knowledge is used.
The platform describes the annual statistics as “a chance to look back on your year in sound”.
It says knowledge is captured between January and mid-November on each account, though it largely excludes something streamed in non-public mode. (Don’t fret, your ardour for the Spice Women might be stored secret.)
Wrapped presents personalised listening statistics, which Spotify calls the “real story of your year of listening”, alongside international figures for comparability.
The streaming service says Minutes Listened displays the precise time spent listening to audio on the platform.
As soon as a person streams no less than 30 tracks, Spotify generates a listing of Your Prime Songs. Equally, Your Prime Artists ranks artists based mostly on whole minutes listening to a selected performer.
Different metrics determine the highest genres customers have performed, in addition to podcasts and audiobooks ranked by whole minutes listened. And if you happen to’ve listened to no less than 70% of tracks on a report, you will see prime albums too.
Spotify additionally creates Your Listening Age, a guesstimate of your age based mostly on the period of the music “you feel most connected to”.
The streaming service says the statistic is calculated utilizing a five-year span of music which customers engaged with greater than different listeners of an analogous age.
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Spotify has been summing up 2025’s most listened to tracks. Pic: Spotify
Swift vs Bunny
Pop celebrity Taylor Swift has been named the UK’s most-streamed artist on Spotify for the third 12 months in a row.
However she dropped out of the highest spot within the international rankings, coming second to Puerto Rican celebrity Dangerous Bunny, who secured greater than 19.8 billion streams. Third have been The Weeknd, adopted by Drake and Billie Eilish.
Dangerous Bunny’s LP Debi Tirar Mas Fotos was probably the most listened-to album worldwide.
Spotify revealed Drake was the UK’s second most-listened to artist, adopted by Sabrina Carpenter in third, The Weeknd in fourth and Billie Eilish in fifth.
Regardless of being probably the most listened-to artist, Swift failed to interrupt into the UK’s prime 5 most listened-to songs and albums of the 12 months.
Alex Warren’s Atypical was the most-streamed tune, and Brief ‘N’ Candy, launched by Carpenter final 12 months, the highest album.
