- Spotify has explained some of the methods behind Wrapped 2025
- It may clear up some confusion around the end-of-year recap
- Different data points are calculated using different methodologies
Earlier this week, Spotify Wrapped 2025 rolled out, leading to listening recaps being shared all over social media – and now Spotify has revealed all about how the stats are put together, which may explain why some of your Wrapped might have surprised you.
In the new blog post, Spotify says that “each data story uses the metric that makes the most sense for that specific narrative”: top songs are simply ranked by total listens, for example, whereas top albums use a different logic that’s based on streaming the majority of the tracks and how widely distributed your listening has been.
Spotify also confirmed that its Wrapped data collection starts on January 1 and goes up until November – so it’s not a full calendar year or a rolling 12-month window. Offline listening is included, but non-music tracks (such as white noise) aren’t.
With these different methodologies at play, there might be some confusion about certain results, Spotify says. The new Listening Age feature, which aims to guess your age based on the tunes you played over the year, has been particularly baffling for some users.
‘Easy to forget’
Spotify presents a few more reasons why your Wrapped stats might not be what you expected: the human element. As flesh and blood people, we’re not always great at remembering what happened six or 12 months ago.
“The year is long, and it’s easy to forget that album you had on repeat back in February,” explains the blog post. “Artists with large catalogs can also rack up a high stream count even if you only listened to each song a few times.” Devices you share with others might also have influenced your results, Spotify says.
You can find your Spotify Wrapped for 2025 inside the app for Android or iOS, and it should be promoted somewhere on the Home tab. If it isn’t showing up for you for some reason, there are some fixes you can try.
There are plenty of new features this year, across music, podcasts, and audiobooks. They include a Wrapped Party that lets you compete against your friends to see who was the most obsessed, got the rarest listen, and logged the most listening minutes.
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