2025 Spotify Wrapped is Here With Three Unique Features Compared to Apple Music Replay

[MacRumors]

Spotify Wrapped has returned for 2025, and it offers three particularly unique features compared to this year's edition of Apple Music Replay.

First, there is a new top song quiz that allows you to guess which track you listened to the most on Spotify this year, before it is revealed.

Second, there is a new Wrapped Party feature on mobile devices that is designed for both group chats in messaging apps and in-person gatherings. This fun and interactive feature lets you compete with up to nine friends, to see who streamed the most minutes of music, who discovered the most new artists, and more throughout the year.

Third, there are now Wrapped Clubs. Spotify will sort you into one of six clubs based on your unique listening history over the past year.

As always, Spotify Wrapped is an end-of-year highlight reel that lets you view the total time you spent listening to music, podcasts, and audiobooks on Spotify. You can also view your top five songs and top five artists that you listened to this year, and for the first time, you can now view your top albums of the year as well.

Just like Apple Music Replay, Spotify Wrapped provides you with a playlist of your top songs in 2025, and highlight reel cards that are designed to be shared on social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat.

Many other new features were added to Spotify Wrapped this year, so make sure to check out Spotify's list if you are interested in learning more.

Spotify also shared year-end charts and more.

2025 Wrapped is prominently featured at the top of the Spotify app.

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[aloysiusfreeman]

I do feel the appeal for many Spotify users is this time of year when they can share these end of year wrap ups.

Very much content with Apple's replay (which is nothing extraordinary) as it doesn't come with the baggage that is Spotify.

 

[zachz]

Maybe I’m “old” but I never understood the appeal of posting these things for everyone to see. I couldn’t care less what someone listened to during the year just like I don’t care that someone drinks coffee everyday yet feels the need to post it each morning.
The people I do care about, we talk about what we’re listening to already

 

[Jpcope]

AirPlay 2 STILL waiting

 

[aloysiusfreeman]

It's kinda cool, especially to have a report of what you listened to the most each month and such. Kind of tells a story in its own way.

But yes, kinda like the person sharing their coffee every morning, it's an egotistical thing to share it to everyone and feels very much like a compulsive trend thing to prop up Spotify as the super cool platform (to overlook its horrible flows)

 

[Ctrlos]

‘Three Important Features!’

1. No way to fill in gaps in the music catalogue with your own CDs

2. Pays artists half the pittance Apple does (which is still a pittance)

3. No way to buy an album outright

 

[WarmWinterHat]

‘Three Important Features!’

1. No way to fill in gaps in the music catalogue with your own CDs

2. Pays artists half the pittance Apple does (which is still a pittance)

3. No way to buy an album outright

1. You can add your personal music collection to Spotify. I have several albums that I've ripped from CD that aren't available to stream (from anywhere) added to my Spotify playlists.

2. Yet artists still make more with Spotify because of the volume of subscriptions and streams, but no small-time artists make enough from either of them to matter. For example, a friend and her husband have a fairly popular group, in their area. They make more on a single Bandcamp album purchase than than an entire years worth of royalties from either service. It's a not a career for them, so no biggie, but it does show how little most make.

3. From Spotify? No, but can buy it anywhere else and use it in Spotify.

I've tried Apple Music several times. Just don't like it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

[ralph_sws]

AirPlay 2 STILL waiting

but we have Spotify Connect. Direct streaming to device

 

[orbital~debris]

Spotify Wrapped has returned for 2025, and it offers three particularly unique features

They may be unique features, but I'm not sure how useful or compelling they actually are.

 

[mcilwraith]

Spotify: King of music streaming. now with Lossless.

 

[MysteriousStain]

People are really keen to tell us that sharing your music taste is weird while sharing their gripes on an online forum 🤷‍♂️

 

[dwd3885]

This is cool. You can really tell the Apple Music users in this thread based on their responses.

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

‘Three Important Features!’

1. No way to fill in gaps in the music catalogue with your own CDs

2. Pays artists half the pittance Apple does (which is still a pittance)

3. No way to buy an album outright

Went in the Apple store earlier, outright refused to sell me a pager.

 

[grammatica]

Apple is too complacent. The "we're not first but best" schtick is a lame excuse. The only thing Apple Music excels at is Live Lyrics and the karaoke feature.

 

[commanderclif]

As a Gen X I'm content to just have a music app that does...Music. Work on my library, curate my own playlists and listen to the music I want.
While I like the idea of guess your most played song...I don't REALLY need that as a feature do I? In fact I already have it, just before I open my Replay I can close my eyes and make a GUESS.
Chatting in a Music app? Nope. Thats what Message app is for.
As for being put in one of six groups....based on my unique listening.Well thats just an oxymoron now isn't it.

 

[techfreak23]

Cue the bombardment of social posts with their wrapped screenshots…

but we have Spotify Connect. Direct streaming to device

Connect is far better than airplay in many ways. I love being able to seamlessly switch stream sources across ALL of my devices instead of only controlling them from one source.

 

[9Jooey]

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[Lynxpoint]

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I am half your listening age, but apparently trending, which is funny since I am also into the most esoteric of artists as well, according to Spotify.

 

[svish]

Interesting to see this! Have not subscribed to Spotify so I won't be having access to this. Would have liked to see a similar feature for Apple Music too.

 

[wanha]

Maybe I’m “old” but I never understood the appeal of posting these things for everyone to see. I couldn’t care less what someone listened to during the year just like I don’t care that someone drinks coffee everyday yet feels the need to post it each morning.
The people I do care about, we talk about what we’re listening to already

I'd actually argue that there is a huge untapped social aspect to music and if it's done right, could help people come together in a way that is neither competitive nor intellectual - just based on the sonic vibes we all enjoy

 

[rom3o]

I'd actually argue that there is a huge untapped social aspect to music and if it's done right, could help people come together in a way that is neither competitive nor intellectual - just based on the sonic vibes we all enjoy

Apple unsuccessfully tried to tap into the social aspect of music with iTunes Ping. Based on how many years they took to implement collaborative playlists in Apple Music, I don’t think they'll give it another go anytime soon.

 

[wanha]

Apple unsuccessfully tried to tap into the social aspect of music with iTunes Ping. Based on how many years they took to implement collaborative playlists in Apple Music, I don’t think they'll give it another go anytime soon.

It's one thing iTunes Ping didn't take off.

It's a whole other problem how little Apple invested in Ping after the initial launch and how quickly they gave up on it.

They are like the guy who went to the gym to lose weight and after two times said "what's the use? I'm clearly not getting thinner"

 

[Artemis70]

1. You can add your personal music collection to Spotify. I have several albums that I've ripped from CD that aren't available to stream (from anywhere) added to my Spotify playlists.

As far as I can tell, what Spotify provides is not the same thing. It doesn't upload the files, they are only available for playing on my local device. On Apple Music I have playlists with this music and they work on all of my devices. Is that possible with Spotify as well? For clarity, I don't intend to have all my ripped music on my work laptop, but do listen to those songs on my work laptop.

 

[Nightflyer720]

Dropped Spotify about four years ago, when I opened up my app one day to find that playlists no longer displayed song counts. I will never comprehend why these people did something so incredibly braindead, then acted dismissive and unbothered when users called them out on it. Turns out they just FELT like taking this feature away. Which is fine, since I just FELT like canceling their service and giving my business to their direct competitor. Best response to a rude, ignorant, disrespectful company will always be to hit them where it hurts the most. These idiots will never again get the chance to run my pockets.

 

[Jpcope]

but we have Spotify Connect. Direct streaming to device

Spotify Connect does not work with HomePods, so the only way to play Spotify is through AirPlay. This is why the audio constantly cuts out. Spotify still only supports AirPlay 1, which is unreliable and depends on your phone staying active. AirPlay 2 completely fixes these issues, and Spotify actually promised to add it back in 2021 but never delivered. Until they support AirPlay 2, streaming Spotify to HomePods will continue to be a bad experience.