Spotify has gradually demonstrated to users how its data can provide fun insights into user listening habits. It shows a graph demonstrating how many minutes you listened each year, before looking at your number one song and artist for each year. The rundown also looks at how your music has changed over the 2010s. It also asks if you want to tweet at your number one artist to let them know. It breaks down artists by what time of year you listened to them, how many genres you tried out, how long you listened to each category, and even how many countries’ music you listen to. The rundown, released Thursday, offers a pretty comprehensive look at your stats. The service also released a list of the global top tracks and artists of 2019 and the decade.
But unlike last year’s rundown that focused on the year in review, Spotify is closing out the year with a look at both 2019 and the decade as a whole. You can run, you can hide, but you can’t escape data aggregation.Spotify Wrapped, the music streaming service’s annual rundown of your year in music, is back. So give in to Spotify Wrapped and let it drag you for absolute filth. To add insult to injury, Spotify Wrapped has end-of-decade features this year, so you can see the slow regression and narrowing of your taste since college. It’s humbling to know how many hours you spent with Mitski for the second year in a row. The whole thing is a harrowing journey of self-reflection. The app prompts and encourages you to share your stats on social media, which would explain all of the screenshots on Kpop stan Twitter this morning. The app then assesses your genre fluidity through bar graphs, and turns your most-played songs into a 2019 playlist. The “world citizen” feature tells you how global your tastes are, showcasing artists from different countries that made it into your heavy rotation. Then, it will tell you which “lucky” artists were your most played. Here’s how it works: Open the app and scroll to the top of the homepage, or visit in your browser, and Spotify will give you a personalized rundown of how “your sound changed with the seasons,” which in my case induced Seasonal Affective Whiplash from summer’s “ Want You in My Room” dominance to a Lana Del Rey autumn. Spotify Wrapped is back again for its definitive year-end lists: yours. Horrific tech inventions of the 2010s: advanced military drones, the Juicero, and music streaming services that keep track of and share your listening habits, so everyone knows how many times you played “ Escape” by Enrique Iglesias during a particularly bleak spell back in February.
Spotify knows you played “Bad Guy” 29,054 times this year
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