When does Spotify Wrapped 2024 release? It's time to be on the lookout
The most wonderful time of the year is nearly here, the time when you get to flex your superior music taste to all your friends and family.
That's right: Spotify , the popular music streaming platform, will soon release Spotify Wrapped – your personalized listening history from 2024 "wrapped up" in a set of Instagram-worthy graphics.
But when will this year's Spotify Wrapped release? And don't worry, Apple Music users. We haven't forgotten about your yearly Replay, either.
Here's everything you need to know about the viral campaigns.
When does Spotify Wrapped 2024 come out?
The platform has yet to announce when it plans to release Spotify Wrapped 2024. However, USA TODAY reports that Spotify has bumped up its release date in recent years, and could drop its 2024 Wrapped in November or early December.
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Spotify Wrapped 2023 came out Nov. 29.
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In 2022 , Spotify Wrapped released Nov. 30.
Does Spotify Wrapped include listening data from January through December?
Despite rumors that Spotify Wrapped only collects data from Jan. 1 to Oct. 31., the platform recently confirmed that the round-up does, in fact, track listening data past Halloween.
After social media users joked that their time to manipulate their listening data would end Oct. 31, the audio streamer shared a Halloween graphic on X of a jack-o'-lantern filled with candy and a message reading: "Spotify Wrapped doesn't stop counting on October 31st."
🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 https://t.co/kl5qJOL7wm
— Spotify (@Spotify) October 31, 2024
The platform has not confirmed when exactly it stops tracking listener data for Wrapped this year, but we know it will at least be past Oct. 31.
What is Spotify Wrapped?
The idea behind Spotify Wrapped came in 2015 , when the mega-popular music platform released its Year in Music feature, allowing users to see which artists they listened to most over the previous 365 days. The Year in Music campaign shared much of the same data Spotify Wrapped does, including listeners' most played songs and how many hours of music they listened to in total.
The feature got a major face-lift the following year, though, complete with the new Spotify Wrapped name. The marketing campaign has seemingly become more and more viral each year, as Spotify ups its graphic design and data personalization game.
In 2018, Spotify included data about the astrological signs of the artists a user listened to most during the year. In 2019, Spotify Wrapped adopted an Instagram Story format, allowing users to easily share (or show off) their highly-curated listening history to their social media stories. In 2020, the platform included podcast-listening data.
In last year's Spotify Wrapped, listeners were assigned a "Sound Town" – matching users with a city that aligned with their favorite genres and artists.
Only time will tell what new, quirky data will appear as part of users' 2024 Spotify Wrapped portfolios.
Does Apple Music have an end-of-year feature?
In 2022, Apple Music announced its version of Spotify's end-of-year campaign called Apple Music Replay. Apple's feature includes much of the same listening data as Spotify's, including a user's top songs, top albums, top artists and top genres from throughout the year.
Apple Music Replay functions a bit differently than Spotify Wrapped. As of this year, it began releasing monthly Replay experiences, highlighting a user's listening habits at the end of each month.
Apple Music users can access their Replay by locating the Listen Now tab in the app, scrolling to the Replay section, tapping the Replay '24 playlist and then selecting the plus button in the top right. After that, Apple Music users can check out their Replay '24 throughout the year in the Playlists section of their library.
Similar to Spotify, Apple Music users will also receive a big Replay '24 roundup designed to share to social media. In 2023, it released Nov. 28 .
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