Anyone had a look at this yet? For those that are unaware, Spotify gives an annual breakdown of your own personal 2025 of listening to music, audiobooks and podcasts. In my one, Alexei Sayle thanks me for listening to his autobiography and Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell also seem to thank me personally for my custom.
My listening age is 61 (about right). My 16 year old twins are 30 and 61 – which they put down to musicals.
My musical age is 69 apparently and I’ve listened to over 250 genres therefore can’t be classified.
My results are biased because I’m in a folk rock band and I listen to the songs we’re learning a lot which buggers up the stats.
Similar problem here…the choral society I’m in is performing Josef Rheinberger’s “The Star of Bethlehem” on Saturday, so it’s been on heavy rotation while I’ve been trying to learn it and now Spotify is convinced he’s one of my favourite artists.
My musical age is 34, no idea where that came from.
I got a listening age of 29 & put this purely down to my appreciation of Carly Rae Jepsen. Although I’d have thought my love for Half Man Half Biscuit would have balanced this out somewhat.
Apparently I have listened to 7,660 song this year over 398 genres, although most of these genres seem as leftfield as paint colours.
My listening age is 55 and I have listened to 346 genres. Top artist Josh Rouse and top song Grizzly Bear by Angus & Julia Stone. I always look forward to getting my wrapped and again as usual surprised at the results .
Listening age 73 !
How very dare you..
( Note to self, pack Spotify with English Garden and Mary next year ! )
Top artists ?
Michael Kiwanuka
Lilac Time
Joni.M
Stevie W
Beatles
Top song Mutton Birds, Dominion Road..
Another ’73’ here. 23 years older than I actually am. The nerve!
My 21 year old was 70 (too much Bowie probably), while my 19 year old was 23 (lots of Bad Bunny). And I was 76 though I’m a sprightly 53! I hereby call into question these Spotify so-called algorythms.
Listening age, 76! Noooo! I’ve listened to Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo and liked them, honest. I must be down with the kids. But I guess a lot of listening to Serge Gainsbourg, Francoise Hardy and Jane Birkin along with plenty of Krautrock has aged me. Apparently my top genre was Yé Yé.
Top artists reflect my year of French listening:
Clou
Teenage Fanclub (always)
Constance Amiot
Clio
Baxter Dury
Top song
Montparnasse by Constance Amiot – I highly recommend it.
I found time for 118,924 minutes, 392 genres, 11,098 songs, 372 albums, and 2,486 artists apparently. Surely a real 76 year old couldn’t match that. 😉
I don’t use Spotify, my top 5 artists on YouTube music (which isn’t the primary way I listen to music)
1 Jeff Tweedy
2 Wilco
3 Beth Gibbons
4 Bill Ryder-Jones
5 Bruce Springsteen
I abandoned Spotify for the green fields of Qobuz, halfway through the year – so effectively my Wrapped is only looking at six or seven months.
Listening age was 78 – only 14 years too old.
Looks like I only listened to 54 genres.
Three of my top 5 tunes were classical.
My number one listen was Radiohead’s Pyramid Song, in an a cappella arrangement by Voces 8.
Well, well…
Mine tells me, I’ve a listening age of 77 and my top genre is swamp music 🤭
..Er a bit of an outlier here: my listening age is 16!
Apparently I wasted 17 days listening to Spotify (and I was on Tidal for two months back in Spring).
I’ve got a listening age of 17 – it seemed to suggest that it was down to the fact that I mainly lsiten to new music… it doesn’t seem to take into account the fact that the majority of others listening to that same new music are over 50! I imagine that there are many frequencies I could hear when I was 17 that I’ll never hear again!
So, I think hink the general view is that we’ve got a class action to pursue against Spotify for their age-shaming software, which has triggered us / made us feel unsafe / compromised our sense of self worth…you choose..
I still have a Spotify account but switched to Tidal for most of my listening back in the Spring, so my stats are fairly limited. Apparently my listening age is 25 which is surprising given that Bob, Van and Bruce are three of my most listened artists and classical and folk two of my most listened genres. Lucy Dacus must be doing a lot of heavy lifting there…
I wonder what the upper limit is on that listening age? If i spend next year listening to Al Bowly and Bing Crosby, will it come back and tell me I’m dead?
Tidal don’t do a “listening age”, but if they did I think I’d be getting a telegram from the King.
1 Wilco
2 Steve Earle
3 Bruce Springsteen
4 Joni Mitchell
5 Neil Young
34 here, Mrs Moles is 73 which makes me a toyboy!
Top 5
Throwing Muses (saw them in aug, refreshing my knowlede of their catalogue)
Gyorgy kurtag – listened to a 73-track piano album
Haim
Saint Etienne
Taylor Swift (no escape from the Swift Industrial Complex)
I would reckon none of the top 5 had more than a 100 listens, so it’s all a bit of a nonsense.
I’m also a scout for the Cloud State Society whatever that means.
2,200 different artists for me over the year.
Both Spotify and Tidal subscriptions are no more chez Mike but I still have free accounts if I choose to log onto them.
I’ve probably only logged onto Tidal a couple of times this year. To see if music I couldn’t find on Qobuz was on there. It wasn’t. Haven’t logged onto Spotify at all in ’25.
The streamers all use algorithms to point you at music they think you’ll like.
Qobuz’s algorithm is getting quite well-trained these days, though I wish it wouldn’t enable playing algorithm-chosen tracks after an album that I’ve selected has ended. I keep turning it off in the app settings, but app updates keep turning it back on again, which is annoying.
Bandcamp seems to be the only site that recognises that once the Afterworder has listened to, for example, Depeche Mode’s Violator album all (s)he wants to is enjoy the silence of completion.
(*Yes – put down your red biros – I’m sure Violator is not on Bandcamp, but let a brother have a non pedant-punctured pun for once)
I think you’ll find that Violator isn’t on Bandcamp, Sewer.
(I’m sorry but if you take away our pedantry, then what are we, really?)
Spotify told me that I’d listened to OMD more than Depeche Mode. I mean…as if!
They only seem to register online listening. If you have downloaded Violator and play it 100 times, then Spotify Wrapped is none the wiser.
I’m not sure that’s true. I listen almost exclusively to downloads on Spotify and I could have had a pretty good guess at the top albums and to tracks. It also recognised that I usually listen to full albums and I don’t think I’ve ever done that without downloading first.
Hmmm – not sure what’s happening then.
The notorious OMD elves – they sneak in during the night and clock up repeat plays of History Of Modern on your phone. It’s a nuisance, but I put up with it cos they save me a bundle on shoes..
Cobblers!
That’s interesting, I almost always download first on the phone.