- Apple Music Replay 2025 has landed before Spotify Wrapped
- Any subscriber can access it in the Music app or on the web
- It will highlight top tracks, top artists and genres as a start
Instead of following in Spotify Wrapped’s footsteps, Apple Music is moving forward with its annual Replay. Of course, it’s the Cupertino-based tech giant’s take on the classic sharing of stats for all the tunes you’ve listened to this year, your top artists, and some stats that will probably surprise you and maybe catch some eyes.
While Spotify Wrapped is generally seen as the gold standard, albeit with some missteps, Apple Music Replay 2025 really hits the basics with some extra stats. You can also easily access the Replay experience through the Music app on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, or even on the web.
One note: if you try to access it on macOS, it will jump you to the web experience, even though the year roundup playlist is available.
I was greeted with it, front and center, in the top row of the Music app on my iPhone, and I especially love the moving gradient of colors, like “Replay: Your music story is here.” is set against.
From there, you’re transported to a simple Replay interface that invites you to start with a highlights wheel and then scroll down for your top artists, tracks, albums, playlists and genres of 2025. You can also dive further back into previous years or view 2025 month by month.
Apple Music’s highlight wheel approach doesn’t assign you a music genre or personality type; rather, it sticks to the numbers. The first slide runs through the key stats, with album covers flying through and total listening time, before zeroing in on the artist you’ve been most loyal to – shocker, it’s Bruce Springsteen for me. It will then run through top tracks, top albums and even genres month by month before inviting you to share it to Instagram for Stories or Reels, as well as TikTok.
However, the biggest change from previous years is that you can now get more actionable, insightful trends from the month. Of course, you can also dive straight into your Replay playlist for your best songs. It also fits in with Apple Music’s monthly summaries, which it has offered a bit – something I’d like to see Spotify copy at some point, but Last.fm will do fine for that.
Of course, if you have a setup like mine where you’re spread across different music streaming services – Apple Music, Spotify and Nugs are mine – one service doesn’t necessarily paint the whole picture. And Apple Music doesn’t do the best job of integrating iTunes Match selection either, but while it’s not a massive redesign, there’s no doubt that Apple Music Replay 2025 hits those classic notes with some updated theme.
Even with the polish surrounding Apple Music’s year-end, it’s safe to say we’re curious to see how Spotify can raise the bar with Wrapped 2025. Yes, we can all assume we’ll get character traits based on the music we listen to, a personality genre delivered as a character, and maybe even a short video recording from our top artist or artists. Spotify even offered an AI-generated podcast last year that unpacked each user’s Wrapped; We’ll see if it holds up in 2025.
I think it’s safe to say that it will definitely be a little flashier, ready with memes and all social platforms soon enough.
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