Apple may have beaten them to it, dropping Apple Music’s 2024 Replay playlists into subscriber’s account yesterday, but the real year-end big news remains today’s release of Spotify’s Wrapped 2024 charts. The increasingly relevant and popular annual Spotify list of most streamed songs and artists on the platform has become the benchmark metric for “How was your year?” for every musician.
And while Wrapped drops tailor-made lists of what you’ve been listening from across the year for its users, it’s the year-end charts – a chance for the industry to get an angle on an artist’s success in an age where ‘record sales’ mean nothing – that are the hot topic.
