Subscribers to both of the major music services can explore the data, and show off or shy away from what they’ve been listening to.
It’s that time of the year: if you have kids, it’s time to share how much they have influenced your musical tastes by hitting repeat on Disney and K-Pop Demon Hunters, and if you don’t have kids, time to show how much you’ve liked K-Pop Demon Hunters, as well. There’s clearly no excuse, beyond loving it, which you are totally allowed to do.
Regardless of what you listened to, we’re at that time of the year where music services are ready to show just how much we listen to, and the trends in our tastes.
For Apple Music subscribers, it means Apple Music Replay is live and available in a neat little carousel of tastes and information on phones, as well as offering a little more detail in the full app with a grid of tastes for each month.
That last one is largely tanks to Apple Music’s shift to supporting monthly replay tallies, which it added last year.
Meanwhile, Spotify Wrapped is up, as well, showing a different variation between subscribers who listen and those who are also artists. The presentation on Spotify is in typical Spotify style, meaning it’s animated, playful, and may even include a message from an artist you’ve been listening to in a big way.
Perhaps crazily, Spotify Wrapped launched to be viewed by over a staggering 200 million people in the first 24 hours, a mark that took nearly three days last year.
Across the world, Spotify Wrapped goes beyond music, covering podcasts and audiobooks also served up on its platform, while Apple Music Replay focuses on music alone.
Both feature a lot of data, with monthly trends, top artists, the amount of minutes that have seen you jamming along, and in some instances, a leaderboard for the biggest fans.
It’s not just about what you listen to, either.
Artists with music on the Spotify system also get a variation of Spotify Wrapped talking about their most played songs, as well as the countries internationally that played the most of their tunes.
It seems like it’s a good time for anyone who’s into music to learn about others, such as how much K-Pop Demon Hunters they’ve all been playing, and how often the word “Golden” has appeared on playlists.
