When has Spotify Wrapped come out in previous years? What to know

From Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” to Charli XCX’s “Brat,” 2024 has proven to be an exciting year for music and Spotify is ready to celebrate it.
The annual Spotify Wrapped is set to drop soon, allowing users to look back at their most streamed songs, genres and artists of the year.
While Grammy Award nominations revealed the music industry’s darlings last week, Spotify’s campaign honors listeners’ favorites. The streaming platform also creates a playlist with a user’s 100 most streamed songs and shares fun facts like whether they’re in the top 1% of Taylor Swift’s listeners or what their music aura looks like.
While an official release date has yet to be confirmed, here’s what to know about so far about Spotify Wrapped 2024.
Spotify has yet to announce when its 2024 Wrapped will drop, but based on previous years, it’s coming in late November or early December. Over the past few years, Spotify has bumped up the Wrapped release date.
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Last year’s Wrapped dropped on Nov. 29 while in 2022 it was released on Nov. 30. In 2021 and 2020, it was released on Dec. 1. In 2019, it was Dec. 5 and in 2018 it dropped on Dec. 6.
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Users have long speculated that the service only tracks data between Jan. 1 to Oct. 31. However, Spotify has debunked that theory, confirming that it continues to track listening habits for its annual Spotify Wrapped past Halloween.
Spotify users can find their previous Spotify Wrapped playlists, showing their 100 most streamed songs of the year, through the platform’s search engine.
However, the Wrapped presentation sharing annual statistics is only available to see for around a month.
Established in 2016, Spotify Wrapped is an annual campaign that combines Spotify listening data into an interactive display of the music the user listened to the most.
Typically, Spotify Wrapped displays a user’s top songs, artists and genres. Users are encouraged to share their Spotify Wrapped on social media.
User data is collected from Jan. 1 through the fall of that same year to produce a user’s Spotify Wrapped.
When Spotify Wrapped 2024 releases, users can see their results on the app, as long as no updates are pending.
Contributing: Greta Cross