As the year starts to come to a close, taking a look back at your year as a whole is something many people begin to do. They look back at the people they spent their time with the adventures they went on, the lessons they learned. There also happens to be an app that releases an overview of your year of listening. Since 2015 Spotify has been releasing their users own personal yearly listening overview, something they later named Spotify Wrapped.
Spotify Wrapped allows users to see things such as how many minutes they listened to music, their top artist, top song, and many other little things specific to the user. “I think Spotify wrapped is a fun little thing to look forward to towards the end of the year, seeing how music has changed overtime, and being able to see everyone’s opinions and thoughts on what music they enjoy listening to,” said freshman Mia Brillhart.
Spotify wrapped is something that many students share with their friends in order to compare their own listening experiences. Listening hours can range for a number of reasons. While Brillhart had a total of 117,663 minutes of musical listening other students differed with sophomore Eve Harbeck having a total of 15,000 minutes, and senior Mason Xu listening to 70,359 minutes.
A new and fun feature that Spotify has done this year is include a music evolution, of which gave users different ‘phases’ or ‘seasons’ that correlates to the type of music they listened to that specific month, as for Brillhart, her favorite phase was her “‘October was your pink Pilates princess strut pop phase’ this was my favorite cause during that time, I had many upbeat fun happy songs that I liked, and I’d listen to these songs constantly! I had lots of fun with it!” said Brillhart. Brillhart’s phase was very different from Xu’s as his favorite phase was in January and was labeled “vampire wrestling rap”. This was my favorite because when it showed what artists I listened to during that month, it kinda made sense why it was labeled that way, but it also intrigued me,” said Xu.
Looking at the Spotify wrapped as a whole it is very well thought out as there are so many little details of which feed into the making of each individual’s wrapped, however, there are always things that can be changed or improved. In Xu’s opinion, there is a way to enhance the users wraps even further, “Something that I wished Spotify Wrapped included is the number of minutes for all your top 5 artists so you can compare it to your most listened-to artist,” said Xu.
Spotify wrapped has a large hold on many of those which use the platform, and it is an incredible way to have fun with your friends while also giving you the opportunity to look back at your year as a whole and see what all you spent your time listening to.
