Spotify Wrapped 2025 turns listening into a competition

Wait, is 78,432 minutes expected to beryllium a lot?

It’s clip for year-end lists, yearly roundups, and, of course, Spotify Wrapped. The accustomed suspects are here, similar your astir listened to song, your full clip listened, and your favourite artist. You besides get your 2025 Wrapped playlist, which present shows however galore times you listened to each of your apical 100 tracks this year. But, arsenic usual, Spotify is besides adding a ton of caller worldly to its yearly tradition, including Wrapped Party, which pits you against your friends to spot who is the bigger (or weirder) euphony fan.

Wrapped Party is an interactive diagnostic that you “play” with friends. Granted, determination isn’t overmuch to really do, since it’s mostly astir what you’ve already listened to. You can’t spell backmost successful clip and perceive to a much obscure opus than your friends, oregon retroactively perceive to much fearfulness audiobooks. Still, turning listening to euphony into a competitory athletics is decidedly a caller twist connected the yearly Wrapped tradition.

As portion of the competition, you’ll person idiosyncratic awards similar “The Onion Chopper” for listening to the saddest songs. But your full radical volition beryllium judged based connected however good your tastes lineup, from “Copy and Paste” erstwhile your listening habits are astir identical, to “Chaos Crew” erstwhile you don’t stock a azygous creator successful common.

Spotify is besides bringing backmost its interactive opus quiz and apical creator sprint, which shows however your apical 5 artists changed period by month. But the institution volition besides beryllium highlighting our apical albums for the archetypal time. In the past, Wrapped has been wholly focused connected idiosyncratic songs and connected artists oregon genres. This year, the institution is yet acknowledging that immoderate of america inactive perceive to albums from commencement to finish. Wrapped 2025 volition besides spell further beyond music, highlighting your apical audiobook genres for the archetypal time.

Two different caller features that purpose to connection immoderate penetration into your listening habits are Clubs and Listening Age. The erstwhile is fundamentally a much amusive mode of approaching your favourite genre. Rather than simply saying you listened to metallic the most, you’ll beryllium placed successful the Grit Collective, which “believes successful rebellion done music.” You’ll besides beryllium fixed a relation successful the club, specified arsenic Scout if you thin to beryllium connected the cutting borderline of up-and-coming artists. 

Where Clubs foster a consciousness of belonging, Listening Age seems much designed to item however you mightiness not acceptable successful with your generation. It looks astatine your listening habits and fundamentally says, “You perceive to the euphony of a 70-year-old,” adjacent if you’re lone 38. If you’re inactive spinning precocious ‘90s Nu Metal, it’s gonna accidental your Listening Age is successful your aboriginal 40s. Listening to worldly that chiefly came retired successful 2025? Well, you mightiness lone beryllium 18 then.

Spotify wasn’t archetypal retired of the gross with its yearly Wrapped diagnostic this year. Apple Replay launched connected Monday, arsenic did Amazon Delivered, and YouTube Music dropped its Recap earlier Thanksgiving. But portion it mightiness not beryllium first, Spotify’s yearly recap remains the astir extravagant.