Spotify's annual Wrapped feature is coming soon, but it's been hugely popular over the years, giving listeners a fun, personalized summary of how they listen to their music. As a result, many companies are seizing the opportunity to create similar year-in-review experiences that provide users with a summary of their habits, preferences, and interactions over the past year.
Here are some platforms and websites that mimic the Spotify Wrapped concept.
amazon music
Amazon Music's Spotify Wrapped equivalent is called “My Year in Review.” Unlike Spotify, Amazon's music streaming platform doesn't offer as many interesting stats or shareable insights. Instead, you'll receive a playlist of the 50 to 100 most popular songs based on annual statistics. Playlists can be found in the “Playlists” section or “Made For You.”
Apple Music
Apple Music, the Apple-owned music streaming service, rolled out its “Replay” experience in 2019. This feature provides an overview of top songs, artists, albums, genres, playlists, and stations, including play counts, total watch time, and other insights. . You can also share your personalized listening data on social media, and our year-end highlight reel provides an audio-visual summary of the music you listened to the most throughout the year.
Earlier this year, the platform also released a monthly version of Replay, giving you access to your monthly music habits, including top songs, artists, albums, and more. This experience is only available to paid subscribers to Apple's Replay website.
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Deezer
Deezer, another popular music streaming app, offers an annual roundup called “My Deezer Year.” It provides an overview of your yearly music consumption, including top songs, genres, most listened to albums, and favorite artists.
Two aspects in particular that make this stand out are that it gives you the option to “roast” or “hype up” based on your musical tastes. It also includes a quiz to test how well your friends and family know about your music tastes.
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YouTube Music
YouTube Music's Recap feature provides a personalized, interactive experience with top 5 artists, songs, moods, genres, albums, playlists, and more. It also shows your longest continuous viewing time and the total amount of time you've listened in a year.
To access this feature, tap your profile avatar in the top right corner and select “Your Recap.” Available on Android and iOS mobile apps.
Duolingo
In addition to music streaming platforms, other types of platforms are capitalizing on Spotify's success, such as language learning app Duolingo. The platform's “Year in Review” experience is a 10-page summer that reveals all kinds of insights for learners, including total XP earned, longest streak, and where they rank compared to other Duolingo users.
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Netflix wrap
Although Netflix doesn't offer its own version of a year-end recap, a video editing company called Kapwing has developed a tool that uses Netflix viewing data to provide interesting statistics about individual subscribers. This includes insights like a subscriber's “most eaten day” and total watch time.
To use this tool, simply import your Netflix viewing history. You'll get a variety of stats, including total minutes and days of streaming, top shows and movies watched, major binges (like watching an entire season in one day), most watched movie actors, and more.
Reddit users can see a broad overview of this year's activity through “Reddit Recap,” a feature that allows them to examine their year-long engagement on the platform. This tool provides a detailed breakdown of posts, total upvotes and downvotes received, and awards won throughout the year. It also shows the total time spent using the platform and the most frequently used subreddits and topics.
Wrapped for TikTok
In 2020, TikTok launched a feature that shows the number of videos watched and engagement with the videos. However, it is no longer available, which prompted people to create their own versions.
One such tool was developed by Bennett Hollstein. This works similarly to Kapwing's tool and allows users to export their TikTok data. To do this, visit your TikTok settings page, click on “Settings & Privacy,” click on “Account,” and select “Download Data.” In either case, it is important to select JSON – Machine-readable file as the file format before uploading this file to Wrapped for TikTok.
Once the file is uploaded, you'll be able to view the total number of videos watched, total watch time, and engagement personas such as “Interaction Monster.”
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Since it's still early December, more companies are likely to release their own annual roundups. Many services have released year-end recaps in the past, including Goodreads, Hulu, Pandora, PlayStation, SoundCloud, Strava, and Tidal. Grocery store Aldi is also participating.