The day that millions of music fans wait all year round for finally arrived, and Spotify Wrapped 2025 landed on December 3!
After much speculation and lots of teasers from the platform itself, Spotify is finally revealed which albums, artists, and songs defined 2025. It’s been a great year for music, but a monumental one for Spotify itself following the launch of huge features such as Spotify Lossless.
This time around Spotify really had its work cut out given the backlash it received to last year's recap, and as Wrapped 2025 started to roll out to more users, it proved to be a huge success. Spotify definitely learned from its mistakes, and as a result we were introduced to a wave of new interactive features including Clubs and the highly divisive Listening Age.
We were all hands on deck with all the latest announcements and updates and now that it's over, I'm already wondering how Spotify will top itself next year – here's everything that happened during Spotify Wrapped 2025...
What you need to know
- Spotify Wrapped 2025 dropped on December 3
- Following backlash to last year's Wrapped, there was a lot of pressure for Spotify to deliver - and it was a success
- As well as a huge design upgrade, Wrapped 2025 revamped its classic features with Top Song Quiz and Top Artist Sprint
- Wrapped 2025 also introduced a slew of new interactive features, including Listening Age, Clubs, Archives, and Wrapped Party - a feature that pits your listening data against your friends and compares your listening habits
- If you're a superfan of a particular artist, the new Fan Leaderboard feature shows you where you rank among their top fans based on your total minutes listened
- For the first time in Wrapped history, Spotify revealed your top five albums of 2025 after years of subscribers begging for this stat - which was one of Wrapped's best new tools
How has Spotify been teasing Wrapped 2025?
Spotify gave our first glimpse of Wrapped 2025 a few days ago via its various social media channels, teasing this year’s roundup through a short-form video with seven graphics to reflect this year’s most-streamed artists including Lady Gaga, Pinkpantheress, Justin Bieber, and more.
That's usually a sign that it's imminent – last year, we saw those teasers appears a just a few days before Wrapped 2024 launched.
When might it land?
Spotify's teasers have hinted that Wrapped 2025 is imminent, but they've stopped tantalizingly short of giving us an exact date.
So when could it land? Looking back at previous years (below), today is a strong candidate – it's landed on a Wednesday for the last four years, with the 2024 edition arriving on December 4.
That said, going back to 2019 and 2018 it did also arrive on a Thursday. So based on those dates, our tea leaves are pointing to either today or tomorrow...
Year |
Spotify Wrapped launch date |
|---|---|
2024 |
Weds, Dec 4 |
2023 |
Weds, Nov 29 |
2022 |
Weds, Nov 30 |
2021 |
Weds, Dec 1 |
2020 |
Tues, Dec 1 |
2019 |
Thu, Dec 5 |
2018 |
Thu, Dec 6 |
2017 |
Wed, Dec 6 |
2016 |
Tue, Dec 6 |
How can we tell when Spotify Wrapped is on the way?
It’s fairly easy to tell how close Spotify Wrapped is when other music streaming services start the roll out for their own year in music reviews. YouTube Music beat both Spotify and Apple Music to the punch, rolling out YouTube Music Recap 2025 last week.
YouTube Music Recap 2025 adopts a similar style to its previous years, highlighting the artists, albums, and tracks you listened to most. As well as showing the total for minutes listened overall, this year there’s a new option to ask questions about your year in music which is powered by AI.
While we wait for more updates on Spotify Wrapped 2025, let's hand over to our audio editor Becky Scarrott to talk about Apple Music Replay 2025!
Apple Music Replay 2025 beats Spotify to the punch
Ahoy! Becky Scarrott, TechRadar's audio editor here and while Spotify users are still waiting for Wrapped, I woke up to an absolutely splendid Apple Music Replay offering this morning.
That's right, Apple Music has already beaten Spotify to the punch with its answer to Wrapped (which walked all over Wrapped last year too, in my opinion) and I can tell you that once again, I experienced zero issues when opening and viewing my Replay roundup this year.
So what should you expect? On mobile (on my iPhone 15 Pro Max, which is the only place I've viewed it so far – been a busy morning) the top-left icon of your home screen invites you to 'Replay your year in music', which quickly loads to a seven-slide shareable video that gets positively granular on your listening habits over the past 12 months.
Not only does it cite the minutes you've listened for the entire year, it also depicts your top artists each month, the number of new artists you invited into your life, the sum total of new albums you streamed, your number 1 song for the year (of course) and it even told me that for the first time since 2017, 'pop' was my top genre… I know.
My top song? No One Else by Tanerélle and barnacle boi. And I'm absolutely fine with sharing that.
Now let's hand things over to our homes editor Cat Ellis, who's excited for another yearly recap - but one you might not be thinking of...
Duolingo unveils its 2025 review
The music streaming services aren't the only ones looking back over the past 12 months – Duolingo has also rolled out its Year in Review, which you can access by tapping the icon that appears at the bottom left when you open the app.
You'll be shown a nice little presentation including the number of lessons you've completed, your language score (something the green owl is now encouraging you to add to your LinkedIn profile), and the number of minutes you've poured into the app.
I've apparently spent 3,394 minutes on the Welsh course, which is equivalent to two days, eight hours and 34 minutes (dau dydd, wyth haur, a tri deg pedwar minud).
Duo's Year in Review will also remind you of your overall streak length. You can check this any time within your profile, but it's still nice to receive a little kudos for your efforts.
Finally, you'll see how much XP you've earned over the last 12 months, and where that puts you in terms of global ranking. I'm not going to read too much into that 2% though; according to the company's last annual report the app has been downloaded 950 million times, but only 103 million people access it once per month.
If you've been using the app for a while, you'll be relieved to know that the annual review doesn't feature quite so many illustrations of the green owl's butt as it did last year. Which is nice.
What went wrong with Spotify Wrapped last year?
When Spotify unveiled Wrapped this time last year, it wasn’t welcomed with the warmest of embraces, with some saying it was one of the worst music recaps. For starters, tonnes of personal insights were sacrificed for AI features that no one asked for. This included the AI podcast and a special Wrapped revamp of AI DJ – though I use the word ‘revamp’ very loosely.
Earlier this year, Spotify admitted it made mistakes with Wrapped 2024, implying that the company had some plans up its sleeve to give Wrapped 2025 a fresh overhaul. Has Spotify learned from its mistakes? What do you think?
Spotify Wrapped 2025 has launched!
It's here! The time has come to unveil Spotify Wrapped 2025 and its range of new features. Which artists and songs summarized your 2025? Let us know in the comments.
Can't find Spotify Wrapped 2025?
If Spotify Wrapped isn't showing for you, don't panic, there's a way around it.
Most users should see their Spotify home page updated with the new 'Wrapped' filter tab at the top, but if this isn't showing for you can type 'spotify:datastories:wrapped' into the search bar, and your year in music should appear. You can also try these 3 fixes if you're still running into problems.
You should also note that Wrapped won't appear if you don't have the latest version of the Spotify app - so be sure to update it.
First impressions
From what we've seen so far, the Wrapped user experience has been completely revamped for 2025 - much to our relief following last year's disaster.
As well as spotlighting your top artists and songs as usual, Spotify has introduced a range of new features and insights to your listening habits, and we can't wait to get into them. But for now, let’s start with the classics.
Say hello to the new Top Song Quiz and Top Artist Sprint
Spotify has given its classic Wrapped features a much-needed makeover. As well as showing you your most listened-to genres, Spotify has created a ‘Top Song Quiz’ where you can select from multiple tracks to guess your crowning song of 2025. Similarly, your top artists stats have also been refreshed.
With ‘Top Artist Sprint’ you can watch your top five artists race to the finish line and see which one will come out on top. It also visualizes how your top artists shifted month by month, which I think is a pretty neat new personal insight.
As always, Spotify will generate a personalized Your Top Songs 2025 playlist, but it’s different this time, as it now shows how many times you streamed each of your top 100 tracks this year – I don’t think I want to know how many times I’ve streamed Abracadabra by Lady Gaga.
Listening Age you say?
Old classics got a cool visual upgrade, but Spotify has rolled out a tonne of new features that tell you what type of listener you are – let’s look at the new Listening Age stat.
New to Wrapped, Listening Age compares your music taste to other Spotify users in the same age group as you and examines the release years of the tracks you listened to most. As a 25 year-old, I apparently have a listening age of 66 - what can I say, Stevie Wonder took over my summer.
Are you young at heart? Or an old soul?
Finally, top album stats are here!
Tired of Spotify not revealing your top albums? Well, that’s a thing of the past because for the first time in Spotify Wrapped history, the music platform is shedding light on your top albums of 2025 - has Spotify actually listened to us for once?
For me, it was a toss-up between Lady Gaga’s MAYHEM (obviously), HAIM’s I Quit, or Wolf Alice’s The Clearing. But out of the 159 albums I listened to this year, my loyalty was with Gaga once again.
What are your top albums? And what's your favorite release from 2025?
A new social feature? Sign me up
What’s this? A new social feature you say! Spotify Wrapped 2025 introduces a new slide; welcome Clubs.
Spotify says that Clubs is designed to ‘celebrate the streaming habits that defined your year’. You’ll be sorted into one of six Clubs that each represent a different listening type, and it’ll also tell you the Club’s vibe and the rarity percentage of global listeners that fall into it. Within your Club you’ll be assigned a role within that community which tells you even more about your music personality.
Tell us, are you Club Serotonin? Or are you a more relaxing and lowkey listener in Cloud State Society?
Spotify unveils a new fan insight feature
Spotify has always been clear on its dedication to music fan bases, and this is something that comes with Wrapped 2025.
Do you have a favorite artist that’s always on repeat? Using your total minutes listened for your top artist, you can see where you rank among their global listeners and have evidence that you’re a true fan.
This one didn’t appear in my own Spotify Wrapped review, but I don’t really need Spotify to tell me that I’m a HAIM superfan.
Move to the groove with Wrapped Party
For the first time, you can compare your Spotify Wrapped stats with your friends – it’s like Blend playlists, but for Wrapped.
The new interactive feature turns your listening data into a live competition you can play with friends. It reveals interesting insights including who had the most overall minutes listened, who’s the most obsessed fan, and even who played the rarest track.
At the end of the experience, it presents your friendship group with a special award based on how common your music tastes are. I can’t wait to ridicule my loved ones once again.
Artist videos have also made a comeback, and look who popped in to say hello!
Podcasts have their time in the spotlight, and audiobooks make their Wrapped debut
Spotify has become so much more than a music streaming app, it's also a hotspot for the most popular podcasts and audiobooks out there, both of which are a big part of Wrapped 2025.
For the first time you can get insights to your audiobook listening habits in Spotify Wrapped with the Top Audiobook Genre slide. Additionally, Spotify is including author video messages from big names such as Dan Brown, James Patterson, and Abby Jimenez - and the same goes for popular podcast hosts and creators.
A big upgrade from last year
As mentioned, Spotify had a lot of pressure to really deliver with Wrapped 2025 after it received backlash for last year's yearly review. After playing around with this year's Wrapped, it's safe to say that it's a success.
When Spotify rolled out Wrapped 2024 it was missing a lot of the social and interactive features we love to see each year, but thankfully the streamer has made up for that this time around with Fan Leaderboards and Clubs.
What's your favorite new feature in Wrapped 2025?
The new look back, archival feature is a highlight
Alright, Jacob chiming in here to talk about my favorite part of Spotify Wrapped 2025, and as Rowan said, this is a big update year over year. Beyond Spotify confirming that my top artist is, in fact, Bruce Springsteen, I love the archive look back at the very end.
Billed as pulling some of a listener's files – aka a look back at a specific day – I can see what tunes rang in the new year for me, my biggest listening day, my most diverse day, and my most nostalgic day. It's a very cool look back at the genres, songs, and artists I spun one after the other, and it even reminds me of some key drop dates for 2025's best albums, in my opinion.
Let's not forget the top global stats
As well as rolling out Wrapped, Spotify has also unveiled the top artists, albums, and songs that defined our 2025. Coming out on top and beating Taylor Swift to the punch was Bad Bunny, who accumulated an impressive 19.8 billion global streams. This is his fourth time as Spotify’s Global Top Artist.
Following Bad Bunny, we have Taylor Swift in second place, The Weeknd comes in third place, while Drake lands in fourth place, and Billie Eilish in fifth place.
Did any of these artists make it into your Wrapped?
What about the top global albums?
Not only did Bad Bunny snag the title as Spotify's Global Top Artist, but his album Debí Tirar Más Fotos proved to be a huge success and has been named the number one top album of 2025.
The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack from the incredibly popular Netflix movie lands in second, while Hit Me Hard and Soft (Billie Eilish) SOS Deluxe: Lana (SZA), and Short n’ Sweet (Sabrina Carpenter) take third, fourth and fifth place.
Just missing out on the top five we have Lady Gaga’s ferocious comeback with MAYHEM – which is one for the pop music history books.
Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars take the top spot for global songs
He may have taken two of the top spots, but Bad Bunny missed out on snatching the Global Top Song. Instead, Die with a Smile by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars is the new reigning champion with over 1.7 billion streams, but it doesn't come as a huge surprise - that song was inescapable.
Spotify Wrapped came back bigger, and better
Compared to last year's music recap, Spotify Wrapped 2025 was a roaring success, and I'd go as far to say it's one of the best Wrapped reviews we've had in recent years.
Not only is it more eye-catching and funky in design, but the new interactive and social features are a reminder of why music lovers have always been excited for Wrapped - particularly the Clubs feature, which is a fun way of revealing what your music personality really is.
To top things off, Wrapped Party is another unique new addition to the Wrapped ecosystem, and brings you and your friends even closer together in the space of music fandom and streaming.
