Spotify Wrapped 2025: Is It Now a Competition?

Summary of Key Points

• Spotify Wrapped: Spotify Wrapped is now available for users to explore their listening habits from the past year.
• New Features: The new Wrapped Party feature introduces a competitive element to music listening among friends.
• Top Artists: Bad Bunny was named the most streamed artist globally for the fourth time in five years.
• Popular Content: The top song of the year is the duet “Die With a Smile” by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars.

It’s that time of year again, when all of our favorite streaming platforms start dropping personalized lists of what we’ve been consuming. Spotify Wrapped is perhaps the biggest of the bunch and it’s available for perusal right now.

As always, users can access Wrapped to find their most listened-to genres, artists, songs, albums and podcasts from the past year. This information is shareable via social media if you want random bald eagle avatars to comment on your music taste, but there’s a new interactive feature called .

This is a game of a sort. Spotify says it “turns your listening data into a live competition.” Wrapped Party hands out awards for stuff like listening to smaller artists and obsession with a particular artist, in addition to total minutes streamed. Finally, friends can settle the age-old debate of “who listens to music more.”

Spotify Wrapped is also about the platform itself, so we have plenty of little tidbits from the global user base. Bad Bunny was named the most streamed artist in the world, just ahead of his Super Bowl performance that internet bozos have turned into a . This is the fourth time he’s come out on top in the past five years. He also had the most popular album of the year.

The global top song is something of a surprise, as it’s not Bad Bunny or even Taylor Swift. It’s the Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars duet “Die With a Smile.” The top podcast is, as always, The Joe Rogan Experience. At least Spotify is with Rogan.

If you don’t use Spotify , other major streaming platforms offer something similar to Wrapped. Apple Music and Amazon Music . Even YouTube got in on the act this year, unveiling a