Listen up, your Spotify end-of-the-year review is coming soon
29.11.2022
Translation: Eva Francis
As every year, Spotify is dropping your personal 2022 listening trends in the next few days. With that comes everyone who absolutely has to post this on every possible social media channel. I can’t wait!
It’s time for Spotify Wrapped again. The review shows you a kind of statistic of your most-streamed Spotify songs, artists, albums and genres in the past year. In the next few days, this review will be available in all premium accounts of the streaming service. Last year, it was released on 2 December.
Now don’t get me wrong, I think these Spotify statistics are quite interesting and give you in-depth insights into your listening behaviour. Spotify creates rankings, infographics, comparisons and fancy animations – a feast for every statistics fan. But there’s one problem: people can’t stop sharing their Spotify Wrapped all over social media.
Gegenerating into a social media music sharing event
Of course, very few users can just keep their Spotify review to themselves. Almost everyone has to share their personal collection of twelve Spotify stats on all their social media channels to prove how incredibly individual, fancy and special their taste in music is.
In fact, people seem to think December is the time when their true essence is revealed in their Spotify Wrapped stats. Forget the Myers-Briggs personality types – Spotify Wrapped is much more accurate in showing who you are. Some people even add a comparison with last year. After all, the world needs to know who the cool kids are who are so ahead of the times that they were last year already listening to what’s cool this year.
And so, once again, all Instagram stories will be full of infographics that prove everyone’s amazing taste in music.
Too late to change reality
If you’ve just realised that you’ve been listening to premade, uncool playlists and the charts all year – well, you’re running out of time. You’ll hardly be able to turn the tide for your coolness statistics, as it’s created based on the last eleven months. Listening to a few more niche indie artists now won’t have a massive impact. You’ll have to face the facts: your taste is mainstream.
And there’s nothing wrong about that. Own up to enjoying catchy melodies, metal or danceable rhythms. At least you didn’t have to spend the entire year listening to free jazz just for the sake of a 24-hour Instagram story.
Testing devices and gadgets is my thing. Some experiments lead to interesting insights, others to demolished phones. I’m hooked on series and can’t imagine life without Netflix. In summer, you’ll find me soaking up the sun by the lake or at a music festival.
