Simply listening to music and podcasts isn’t enough — we need to track and compare our history on an annual or even seasonal basis. Spotify Wrapped has imposed a new tradition across social media and even in person, as many people choose to present their listening history to friends or the public. It highlights the service’s overwhelming popularity — in 2023 alone it tracked over 574 million users worldwide — creating something other audio apps want to recreate, with efforts like Apple Music Replay, YouTube Music Recap, and more.
All of that data is also piped back to the musicians and other creators on the other end, who now get more data on where they ranked on charts of individual users to see if they were anyone’s favorite in 2023.
Whether you need to find your Spotify Wrapped 2023 results or you just want to see what’s available in each app, we’ll round up this year’s efforts below.
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YouTube Music’s 2023 Recap has arrived.
Spotify and Apple Music have both released their end-of-year roundups, and now it’s YouTube Music’s turn. This year, YouTube Music will create a custom album art based on what you’ve listened to in 2023, as well as match your top songs to different moods.
You can also access your Recap from the regular YouTube app for the first time, but it might not have any stats if you aren’t a YouTube Music listener.
YouTube Music will generate a custom album cover based on your listening habits in 2023. Image: YouTube -
Image: Samar Haddad / The VergeOne of the more popular end-of-year items is Spotify Wrapped, where the music service puts together a roundup of everything you listened to that year in various statistical formats, wrapped up (well, that’s what it’s called, right?) in bright, fun graphics. You can see what music categories you followed, get a playlist of your top 100 songs, see where you stand compared to others, and find out what your listening personality is.
It’s easy to find Spotify Wrapped — and this year, you can do it using the mobile app or on the web.
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Illustration by Nick Barclay / The VergeSpotify Wrapped, the yearly roundup that offers insight into your listening habits, started having issues shortly after its launch. While Spotify is offering Wrapped on the web for the first time, the experience isn’t loading for some users.
Instead of landing on a login page when heading to Spotify.com/wrapped, some users (including myself and several others at The Verge) are seeing a blank webpage that says “500 Internal Server Error.” There are also numerous reports on X (formerly Twitter) with users reporting the same issue on both the desktop and mobile versions of the Spotify Wrapped webpage.
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeApple Music Replay has arrived. The year-end summary of your most-listened-to songs, artists, albums, and more is now available from Apple Music’s webpage — just days before Spotify is expected to drop its Wrapped stats.
While Apple launched Replay in 2019, it gave the feature a major update last year that makes it a lot more like Spotify Wrapped. But unlike Wrapped, which offers a set of super shareable charts, the stats presented in Apple Music Replay just aren’t as attractive to post online, and they’re not directly available within the Apple Music app. You can still get your 2023 Replay playlist in the Apple Music app, though.
