Spotify Wrapped, the streamer’s extremely anticipated annual listening recap, has arrived. In addition to its normal personalised abstract detailing your favourite artists, songs, podcasts, and extra, the corporate this yr is introducing two new options, together with most notably, an AI-powered podcast of your 2024 Wrapped created with Google’s AI summarization software, NotebookLM.
Spotify can be rolling out a brand new knowledge story known as “Your Music Evolution,” which helps you to see how your musical pursuits developed over the previous yr.
While Spotify beforehand constructed its Wrapped options in-house, the addition of a Notebook LM-powered podcast now sees Spotify working with an out of doors associate on a flagship Wrapped function. Using Google’s Gemini AI, this yr’s Wrapped will help you discover a personalised audio overview of your music listening in 2024, together with issues like your prime songs, prime artists, prime genres, and extra. The result’s meant to really feel such as you’re listening to a podcast about your Wrapped.
The addition follows a breakout second for Google’s AI notetaking software, which went viral in 2024 as individuals started utilizing the service’s new Audio Overview function to create conversations between two AI hosts who riff on no matter matter you’ve fed into the app. Though designed that will help you summarize notes and analysis, individuals started feeding all types of content material into NotebookLM, like weblog posts, books, and even diary entries, resulting in attention-grabbing insights and generally hilarious commentary.
An AI-powered Wrapped ‘podcast‘
Spotify says it was impressed to work with Google on the brand new Wrapped function after seeing how customers reacted to the AI expertise.
When you play your Wrapped “podcast,” accessible from the Home display on Spotify’s app, the AI hosts will praise your music style and summarize your listening exercise. You may save the AI-created audio clip to your cell system or publish it to social media.
The function might be obtainable for a restricted time to each free and paid customers in English within the U.S., U.Ok., Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, and Sweden.
This yr, Spotify can be increasing its social media integrations to incorporate a technique to share to each your TikTok feed and your TikTok Stories — an excellent vacation spot for sharing the brand new personalised AI audio experiences.
While the AI podcast will possible be a success on social media, its inclusion in Wrapped feels considerably iterative. The launch follows final yr’s Wrapped’s addition of Spotify’s standard AI DJ function, which provided AI-generated commentary round your prime artists and songs. This yr, you’re once more getting an AI narrating your musical historical past, however now have two AI audio system as an alternative of only one.
The AI DJ function may also combine your Wrapped into its personal spoken commentary and tales. The AI DJ is on the market in each English and Spanish.
Another AI function is aimed toward Premium subscribers, who can enter prompts to generate AI playlists primarily based on their Wrapped expertise, constructing on the present AI playlist function, launched in April. For occasion, you might immediate Spotify to play extra artists like your prime 5 Wrapped artists.
Meanwhile, Wrapped didn’t introduce as a lot by way of new personalised knowledge tales because it has in earlier years, when the corporate experimented with enjoyable, designed-to-go-viral options like these figuring out your music persona, matching you to a city that shares your musical tastes, figuring out your “audio aura,” or turning your listening historical past right into a sport you possibly can share with buddies, amongst different issues.
Instead, its massive addition on this entrance is the function known as “Your Music Evolution,” which is able to observe as much as three distinct musical phases you went by means of in the course of the yr. For a yr that noticed Beyoncé doing nation, the celebration of a Brat summer season, a continued Taylor Swift Eras tour, an Oasis reunion, and quite a few notable collabs, Spotify could have rather a lot to select from in terms of monitoring customers’ altering pursuits.
The function may also include a personalised playlist that might be obtainable from the Wrapped feed in Home.
Audiobooks are one other new addition to Wrapped in 2024. Now obtainable throughout a spread of worldwide markets, together with the U.S., U.Ok., Australia, and others, Spotify’s audiobooks catalog doubled this yr to over 300,000 titles. Spotify Wrapped will embrace a brand new audiobooks editorial hub and can supply a devoted Wrapped expertise for authors and publishers who need to see how Spotify’s customers engaged with their work in 2024, just like the expertise it already affords for podcasters.
Other areas of the Wrapped expertise have additionally been tweaked or up to date. For occasion, your Top 5 Artists Story will now present your “Longest Listening Streak.” When you share music or podcasts, Spotify will inform you if what you’re listening to was in your prime 100 songs, prime 20 artists, or prime 5 podcasts.
The firm can be bringing again “Top Listeners,” which exhibits what percentile you’re in in your favourite artist — a function that lets customers brag to buddies how they’ve been into a favourite artist lengthy earlier than anybody else.
Artist video clips will return, too, with hundreds of artists sharing messages to prime followers, together with Billie Eilish, Usher, Sabrina Carpenter, Karol G, Peso Pluma, Chappell Roan, ROSÉ, and others.
This yr, Wrapped may also add Podcaster Clips, or video messages from podcasters like Emma Chamberlain (“Anything Goes”), Ashely Flowers (“Crime Junkie”), Markiplier (Mark Fischbach, “Distractable”), Steven Bartlett (“Diary of a CEO”), and others.
And in celebration of Top Artist Taylor Swift, a few Easter Eggs within the app will illuminate Spotify’s buttons with Era-themed animations — like sparkles for “Fearless” or seagulls for “1989 (Taylor’s Version),” amongst others. Fans may also have entry to a Top Artist AR friendship bracelet on Snapchat and Swift will obtain a Global Top Artist badge within the app.
Top Spotify lists of 2024
The firm at present additionally revealed its prime lists for 2024, together with the next (so as of recognition):
- Top Artists (Global): Taylor Swift (26.6 billion streams, 2nd yr in a row), The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, Drake, Billie Eilish (again for the 2nd time since 2019)
- Top Songs (Global): Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” (1.6+ billion streams), Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things,” Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather,” FloyyMenor and Cris Mj’s “Gata Only,” and Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control”
- Top Albums (Global): Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology,” Billie Eilish’s “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short N’ Sweet,” Karol G’s “Mañana Sera Bonito,” Ariana Grande’s “Eternal Sunshine”
- Most Viral Songs (Globally most shared on social media): “Die With A Smile” by Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga, “Birds of a Feather” by Billie Eilish, “Beautiful Things” by Benson Boone, “Lose Control” by Teddy Swims, “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan
- Top Podcasts (Global): The Joe Rogan Experience, Call Her Daddy, Huberman Lab, This Past Weekend with Theo Von, The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett
- Most Anticipated Podcasts (U.S. exhibits with the very best consumption in week one): Mind the Game with Lebron James & JJ Redick, Talk Tuah with Haliey Welch, Drowning Creek, Hysterical, Dateline’s Murder within the Hollywood Hills
- Top Audiobooks (Global): “A Court of Thorns & Roses” by Sarah J. Maas (additionally the highest world writer), “The Fellowship of the Ring” by J.R.R. Tolkien, “I’m Glad My Mom Died” by Jennette McCurdy, “A Court of Mist and Fury” by Sarah J. Maas, and “It Ends With Us” by Colleen Hoover.
