Spotify’s annual Wrapped feature — which is coming out soon — provides listeners with a fun, personalized summary of their listening habits, and it has gained immense popularity over the years. As a result, many companies have seized the opportunity to create similar year-in-review experiences, offering users a recap of their habits, preferences, or interactions from the past year.
Here are some platforms and websites that mimic the Spotify Wrapped concept.
Amazon Music
Amazon Music’s equivalent of Spotify Wrapped is called “My Year in Review.” Unlike with Spotify, Amazon’s music streaming platform doesn’t provide as many interesting stats or shareable insights. Instead, it offers a playlist featuring 50 to 100 of the most popular tracks based on your yearly statistics. The playlist is in the “Playlists” section or “Made For You.”
Apple Music
Apple-owned music streaming service Apple Music rolled out its “Replay” experience in 2019. This feature offers a summary of top songs, artists, albums, genres, playlists, and stations, including play counts, total time spent listening, and other insights. You can also share personalized listening data on social media, and a year-end highlight reel offers an audio and visual recap of the music you listened to the most throughout the year.
Earlier this year, the platform also launched a monthly version of Replay, letting you access monthly music habits, such as top songs, artists, albums, and more. The experience is only available to paid subscribers on Apple’s Replay website.
Deezer
Deezer, another popular music streaming app, offers a yearly roundup called “My Deezer Year,” which provides a summary of your music consumption over the year, including top songs, genres, most-listened-to albums, and favorite artists.
Notably, two aspects that make it stand out are that it gives you the option to be “roasted” or “hyped-up” based on your music preferences, and it includes a quiz that tests how well friends and family know your music taste.
YouTube Music
YouTube Music’s Recap feature offers a personalized and interactive experience, including the top five artists, songs, moods, genres, albums, and playlists. It also shows your longest listening streak and the total number of minutes you listened in a year.
Access the feature by tapping on the profile avatar in the top-right corner and selecting “Your Recap.” It’s available in the Android and iOS mobile apps.
Duolingo
In addition to music streaming platforms, other types of platforms are also capatilizing on Spotify’s success, including the language learning app Duolingo. The platform’s “Year in Review” experience is a 10-page summary that reveals all types of learner insights, such as total XP earned, longest streak, and where you rank compared to other Duolingo users.
Netflix Wrapped
While Netflix doesn’t offer its own version of a year-end wrap-up, 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 subscribers’ “most bingeful day” and total watch time.
To use the tool, simply import your Netflix viewing history. You’ll receive various insights, such as total minutes and days streamed, the top shows and movies watched, significant binges (like when an entire season was watched in one day), and the most-watched movie actor, among other statistics.
Users on Reddit can view an extensive summary of their activity from this year through “Reddit Recap,” a feature that enables them to examine their yearly engagement on the platform. This tool provides a detailed breakdown of posts, along with the total upvotes and downvotes received, as well as any awards earned throughout the year. It’ll also display the total time spent using the platform, along with the most frequented subreddits and topics.
Wrapped for TikTok
In 2020, TikTok launched a feature that showed how many videos you watched and the engagement on your videos. However, it’s no longer available, prompting people to create their own versions.
One such tool was developed by Bennett Hollstein. It functions similarly to Kapwing’s tool, enabling users to export their TikTok data. To do this, visit the TikTok Settings page, click on “Settings and privacy,” then “Account,” and select “Download your data.” In both instances, it is important to choose “JSON – Machine-readable file” as the file format before uploading this file to “Wrapped for TikTok.”
Once the file is uploaded, you will then be able to view the total number of videos watched, total watch time, and engagement persona, such as “Interaction Monster.”
Since it’s still early December, more companies may launch their own annual recaps. Many services have released year-end wrap-ups in the past, including Goodreads, Hulu, Pandora, PlayStation, SoundCloud, Strava, Tidal, and others. Even the grocery store Aldi has participated.
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