- Check the app for the YouTube Music 2025 Recap
- It’s distilled stats from your listening across the year
- You can also get AI answers about your music tastes
It’s the season of music recaps, and YouTube Music is getting in ahead of Spotify Wrapped 2025 with its own annual rundown of user listening history: if you use the service, check inside the app now to see if your summary has arrived.
As spotted by 9to5Google, the YouTube Music 2025 Recap is now starting to appear for users. If you don’t see it immediately after opening the app on your phone, tap your profile picture (top right), then pick Your Recap.
The format is similar to previous years, with a social media story-style format that takes you through your stats for 2025. You’ll see the artists, albums, and tracks you listened to most, as well as the total for minutes listened overall.
YouTube Music will also tell you how diverse your choice of tunes was over the past 12 months, and tell you where your favorite artists are from. You can tap and hold on the screen to pause the recap, and restart it at any time.
The songs of 2025
As with previous years, a playlist of your year is created automatically: tap the button on screen in your recap to save it permanently to your library. You can also jump back to specific sections of your recap once it’s finished playing.
New for this year is the option to ask questions about your year in music, which – as you can probably predict – is powered by AI. You’ll see an Ask about your listening box on your recap page: just tap in it to ask a question.
YouTube Music suggests prompts such as “what’s my musical mascot?” or “write a haiku about my listening”, but you can really ask anything you like – bearing in mind the usual “AI can make mistakes” disclaimer is displayed.
I asked the AI about the oldest song I listened to in 2025 and got Laughing by R.E.M. from 1983 – then asked again, and told the bot to really think about it, and got God Only Knows by the Beach Boys from 1966… so be wary about what you’re being told.
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