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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Donna Ferguson

I spent hours listening to Sabrina Carpenter this year. So why do I have a Spotify ‘listening age’ of 86?

Sabrina Carpenter on stage
‘I have spent 722 minutes listening to Sabrina Carpenter’s songs.’ Photograph: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy

“Age is just a number. So don’t take this personally.” Those words were the first inkling I had that I was about to receive some very bad news.

I woke up on Wednesday with a mild hangover after celebrating my 44th birthday. Unfortunately for me, this was the day Spotify released “Spotify Wrapped”, its analysis of (in my case) the 4,863 minutes I had spent listening to music on its platform over the past year. And this year, for the first time, they are calculating the “listening age” of all their users.

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