Spotify Wrapped 2025 turns listening into a competition

It’s time for year-end lists, annual reports and, of course, Spotify wrapped. The usual suspects are here, like your most played song, total listening time, and your favorite artist. You also get the 2025 Wrapped playlist, which now shows how many times you’ve listened to each of your top 100 songs this year. But, as usual, Spotify is also adding a lot of new things to its annual tradition, including… Wrap partywhich pits you against your friends to see who’s the biggest (or weirdest) music fan.

Wrapped Party is an interactive feature that you “play” with friends. There’s certainly not much you can actually do, since it’s mostly about what you’ve already listened to. You can’t go back in time and listen to a more obscure song from your friends, or retroactively listen to more horror audiobooks. However, turning music listening into a competitive sport is certainly a new twist on the annual cabbage tradition.

As part of the competition, you will receive individual prizes such as “The Onion Chopper” for listening to the saddest songs. But your entire collection will be judged on how good your taste is, from “Copy and Paste” when your listening habits are nearly identical, to “Chaos Crew” when you don’t subscribe to a single artist.

Spotify is also bringing back its interactive Song Quiz and Top Artist Race, which shows how the top five artists have changed month over month. But the company will also highlight our best albums for the first time. In the past, Wrapped focused entirely on individual songs and artists or genres. This year, the company is finally admitting that some of us still listen to albums from beginning to end. Wrapped 2025 will also go beyond music, highlighting your best audiobook genres for the first time.

There are two other new features that aim to provide insight into your listening habits Clubs A lifetime of listening. The first is basically a more fun way to engage with your favorite genre. Instead of simply saying you’ve listened to more metal than ever before, you’ll be placed on Grit Collective, which “believes in rebellion through music.” You will also be given a role in the club, such as that of a scout if you tend to be at the forefront of up-and-coming artists.

Where clubs foster a sense of belonging, the Listening Age seems more designed to highlight the possibility that you don’t fit in with your generation. It looks at your listening habits and basically says, “You’re listening to a 70-year-old’s music,” even if you’re only 38. If you’re still playing Nu Metal in the late 90s, he’d say your listening age is in your early 40s. Do you listen to stuff that was mainly released in 2025? Well, you may only be 18 years old.

Spotify wasn’t the first out of the gate with its annual “wrapped” feature this year. Apple Replay It took off on Monday, as it did Amazon deliveredand YouTube Music It dropped its synopsis before Thanksgiving. But while it may not be the first, Spotify’s annual recap is still the most extravagant.