It's that time of year again: Spotify Wrapped is back. Providing a playlist of your own personal greatest hits of the previous 12 months, Wrapped has fun features and provides interesting insights into your listening habits. As long as you listen to Spotify throughout the year, whether it's on your Android phone or smart speaker, Wrapped becomes available near the end of each year.

If you're new to Wrapped — or just a little disoriented by its ever-changing implementation — you're in the right place. Here's everything you need to know about Spotify Wrapped 2023.

What is Spotify Wrapped?

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Spotify Wrapped is a sort of year-in-review of your listening inside the app, first implemented in 2016. Wrapped generally becomes available near the beginning of December (November 29, for 2023) and various Wrapped features are accessible in-app until the end of the year. Throughout the year leading up to Wrapped, Spotify tracks your listening habits by genre, artist, album, and song.

Wrapped illustrates your listening habits in a fun, colorful, story-style format that can be easily shared. We all enjoy a good year-end call-out, but the stats don't end there. You can also check how many artists you listened to and which artist you listened to most, complete with percentile rankings to let you know how your listening compares. In addition to an interactive slideshow about your listening habits, Wrapped includes some other goodies, including a personalized playlist of your 100 most-played songs of the year.

New for 2023, Spotify's AI-powered DJ feature can walk you through some of the highlights in a way that mimics a linear radio broadcast format — though the DJ character, X, will pepper in commentary that refers to you and your specific listening habits.

How do I find Spotify Wrapped?

Despite Wrapped now being a staple of the Spotify experience, it can be difficult to locate if you don't know where to look. On Android, you can access Wrapped through the Spotify app or using your browser.

Wrapped works a little differently this year, as all the Wrapped content — your 2023 Your Wrapped story, your Your Top Songs playlist for the year, tons of public 2023 in Music playlists, the DJ: Wrapped feature, and more — all live behind a new Wrapped tab that appears alongside options like Music and Podcasts at the top of the Spotify app. Here's how to get to your Wrapped content.

How to find Spotify Wrapped in the Spotify app

  1. Open the Spotify app on your phone or tablet.
  2. In the strip of buttons at the top, scroll to the right and tap the rainbow-colored Wrapped button.
  3. To start your Wrapped story, tap either of the two Your Wrapped options.
  4. The story will start. You can tap on the right side of the screen to advance through the slides, tap on the left side to go back, or tap and hold to pause.

How to find Spotify Wrapped on your mobile browser

If you can't find Spotify Wrapped from the app homepage or app search, you can manually locate and access it from your mobile browser. To do so, follow these steps:

Make sure the Spotify app is installed on your phone or tablet and you are signed in.

  1. Open your browser.
  2. Type spotify.com/us/wrapped. This takes you to the Spotify Wrapped page.
  3. Tap Log in.
  4. Log in using the same information you use to sign into the mobile app.
  5. Your Wrapped slideshow will play in your browser. (You can't skip back or forward while watching in your browser.)
  6. Once the slideshow ends, you'll see options to share your 2023 Wrapped, start it over from the beginning, or open your personalized Your Top Songs playlist in the Spotify app.

What info does the Wrapped story cover?

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Source: Spotify

At long last, you've found Wrapped! Now you can peruse the features and statistics at your leisure, alongside a comparison to how many people in the world are listening to the same things as you. Here's an overview of the 2023 Wrapped screens and stats:

  • A "Genre Sandwich" that illustrates your genre preferences as... a sandwich.
  • A "Sound Town" — a real life city where lots of Spotify users listen to similar music to you.
  • The total number of songs you've listened to and your most-listened to song of the year.
  • Your top five songs of the year and a link to your Your Top Songs playlist.
  • Your total listening time in minutes and days, including where you rank for listening time worldwide.
  • How many artists you listened to throughout the year and your most listened-to artist of the year.
  • Your top five artists, and a breakdown of which months you listened to each most often.
  • "Thank you" message(s) from your top artist(s).
  • How much time you spent listening to podcasts in Spotify, and a ranking of your top five podcasts.
  • How much time you spent listening to your number-one podcast.
  • A "Me in 2023" card that illustrates your listening habits with fun archetypes like Shape Shifter, Time Traveler, and Luminary.
  • A summary and a link to share it outside Spotify.

In addition to the option to share a summary of your Wrapped stats, you can also share individual screens from your story.

How to share your Wrapped stats

Wrapped stats are fun to check out on your own, but more fun when friends and followers can see them. Music, podcasts, and favorite artists are great ways to open up conversations and meet new people. Wrapped slides are designed for easy social media sharing, but they can also be saved and shared through messaging apps. Here's how.

  1. At the bottom of each slide is an icon labeled Share this story. Tap it.
  2. You'll see options to share the story in apps, send it in a text, copy a link to it, or download a copy directly to your device.

Can I access my Spotify Wrapped from previous years?

Accessing previous Wrapped stories is not currently possible, so if you want to be able to refer back to your current Wrapped slideshow later on, be sure to record or screenshot it before it disappears on January 1.

You can, however, access Wrapped's Top Songs playlists from previous years. You should be able to find previous years' playlists by searching for "Your Top Songs" along with the year you're looking for — so for example, to access 2022's playlist, you'd search "Your Top Songs 2022." You can save these playlists to your library to make getting back to them later easier.

That's a wrap!

A year of is a big chunk of time, and looking back on everything you've listened to can be fun and enlightening. Wrapped tracks everything, so what better way to reflect than some personalized and shareable stats? You can share them through chats, text, and social media or save them for your own memories. No matter what you want to do, Wrapped is a fun feature. Aren't you satisfied with Spotify's Wrapped stats? There are other platforms to listen to and keep tabs on your music listening habits.