Every year, music listeners await for the highly anticipated Spotify or Apple Music Wrapped every single year. The commonly used music streaming platform Spotify releases a user personalized music summary at the end of every calendar year called Spotify Wrapped. It provides users with insightful and personalized information ranging from total minutes listened and his or her top listened artist. This service collects data from the start of the year and it’s sometimes astonishing to see how much one’s music taste could change within a year. Additionally, it comes along with a bunch of surprises when people don’t realize how much they have listened to a single song. 

This year, we took a look at some of our editorial staff’s Spotify Wrapped to see what they have been listening to all year. From our investigation, we discovered that the most listened to artist this year was the queen herself Taylor Swift; 70% of our writers had her as his or her favorite artist. We also had a couple of other top artists such as Phoebe Bridgers and Luke Combs. 

We all found out that some people are just always listening to music whether it’s in school or at home. We ranged from around 600 minutes to over 88000 minutes this year. Also, our staff listened to a variety of different genres including the top choice being pop, contemporary country, rock, and alternative music. 

Avid music listener and student Jaideep Babra expresses his excitement about this year’s Spotify Wrapped and states, “This is all I’ve been waiting for this year.” He also is content with his list of top artists listened to this year and plans on listening to more minutes next year in college. 

Spotify Wrapped is a perfect and fun way for students to share what they have been listening to all year in hopes to discover new artists and genres to listen to the following year.