- Spotify has explained some of the methods behind Wrapped 2025
- It may clear up some confusion around the end of the year
- Different data points are calculated using different methods
Earlier this week, Spotify rolled out Wrapped 2025, which led to listener caps being shared all over social media – and now Spotify has revealed all about how the stats are compiled, which may explain why some of your Wrappeds may have surprised you.
In the new blog post, Spotify says that “each data story uses the metric that makes the most sense for that specific narrative”: Top songs are simply ranked by total number of listens, for example, whereas top albums use a different logic based on streaming the majority of tracks and how widely distributed your listening has been.
Spotify also confirmed that Wrapped data collection will start on January 1 and run until November – so it’s not a full calendar year or a rolling 12-month window. Offline listening is included, but non-music tracks (such as white noise) are not.
With these different methods at play, there can be some confusion about certain results, Spotify says. The new Listening Age feature, which aims to guess your age based on the tunes you’ve played over the year, has been particularly confusing for some users.
‘Easy to forget’
Spotify presents a few more reasons why your Wrapped stats might not be what you expected: the human element. As human beings, we are not always good at remembering what happened six or 12 months ago.
“The year is long and it’s easy to forget that album you had on repeat back in February,” the blog post explains. “Artists with big catalogs can also get a high number of streams, even if you’ve only listened to each song a few times.” Devices you share with others may also have affected your results, Spotify says.
You can find your Spotify Wrapped for 2025 inside the app for Android or iOS, and it should be promoted somewhere on the Home tab. If for some reason it doesn’t show up for you, there are some fixes you can try.
There are plenty of new features this year, across music, podcasts and audiobooks. They include a Wrapped Party that lets you compete against your friends to see who was the most obsessed, got the rarest listens, and logged the most listening minutes.
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