Spotify Users SLAM Spotify Wrapped For Being ‘Boring’ This Year – As Someone Says ‘This Stinks Of AI’
After feverish anticipation from fans, Spotify Wrapped is finally here, giving you a look at your most listened to music of 2024.
Spotify’s annual Wrapped feature reveals the songs and artists you played the most over the past year, regardless of whether they’re cool or weird.
The viral marketing campaign presents each user’s listening habits – including favorite songs and artists – as a slick slideshow lasting a few minutes.
However, users have slammed Spotify Wrapped for being ‘boring’ and ‘ugly’ this year, while another angry commenter has complained that it ‘stinks of AI’.
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Another wrote: ‘#SpotifyWrapped is boring this year and stinks of AI and ugly design.’
They continued, “Literally only top artists, tracks and minutes listened.
‘No fun playlists, no interesting niche facts. Unless it gets better when it shows up in the app, this wasn’t worth the wait.”
After feverish anticipation from fans, Spotify Wrapped is finally here, giving you a glimpse into your most listened to music of 2024. But users have branded the experience this year as ‘boring’ and ‘ugly’.
Users have condemned Spotify Wrapped for being ‘boring’ and ‘ugly’ this year, while another angry commenter has complained that it ‘stinks of AI’
A third user wrote: ‘Spotify Wrapped 2024 was like listening to music this year. Here’s a general fact about your top number.
‘We expected a deep dive into our musical soul, not a superficial splash in the children’s pool.’
And a fourth posted: ‘spotify wrapped flopped so badly this year, like where are the music cities, the playlists, the top genres or the listening auras… all waiting for WHAT #SpotifyWrapped2024.’
Spotify users can start the Wrapped slideshow by simply going to the app’s homepage and tapping ‘Your Wrapped’.
This year’s experience also has several additional AI-powered features, including AI DJ, an AI DJ that presents a personalized radio-style highlights show featuring your top picks.
There’s also a ‘Wrapped AI podcast’, which is a brand new one feature powered by Google’s NotebookLM tool, where two AI hosts present your Wrapped results.
Meanwhile, with a little help from AI, Premium users can create personalized playlists using their Wrapped data for the first time.
Spotify has been transparent about its use of AI for these special Wrapped features, although it is unclear whether it uses AI for the basic slideshow.
This fan was unimpressed with the slideshow and visuals, calling it the most boring in years. Wrapped has been around since 2016
Another user said: “We were expecting a deep dive into our musical souls, not a shallow splash in the kiddie pool.”
The Spotify Wrapped slideshow presents stats such as total listening time, top five songs, top five artists, and number of artists listened to
Another said: ‘spotify flopped so bad this year like where are the music cities, the playlists, the top genres or the listening auras…all waiting for WHAT #SpotifyWrapped2024’
MailOnline has contacted the Swedish streaming giant for comment.
This year, the Spotify Wrapped slideshow presents stats such as total listening time, top five songs, top five artists, and number of artists listened to.
In addition to revealing personal data for each user, Spotify Wrapped announces the most streamed musician in its global user base of more than 640 million users – and this year’s winner is no surprise.
With more than 26.6 billion streams worldwide, Taylor Swift is Spotify’s Global Top Artist 2024 for the second year in a row, followed by The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, Drake and Billie Eilish.
Swift’s latest album ‘The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology’ was also the most streamed album of 2024 globally, followed by Billie Eilish’s ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’.
However, neither Beyonce nor her critically acclaimed album Cowboy Carter appear anywhere in the top 10, showing a shocking decline in her streaming popularity.
Looking specifically at Britain, Taylor Swift is also the most streamed artist of 2024, followed by Drake, Kanye West, Billie Eilish and The Weeknd.
Similarly, Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology’ is the most streamed album in Britain, followed by ‘Short n’ Sweet’ by former teen actor and Disney star Sabrina Carpenter.
Taylor Swift, 34, (L) was named Spotify’s Global Top Artist 2024 for the second year in a row, while Beyoncé, 43, (R) failed to crack any of the top ten lists this year
Ahead of today’s unveiling, Spotify posted a teaser animation of friendship bracelet beads – interpreted as a reference to the results.
Swapping friendship bracelets has become a trend among Swift fans (“Swifties”) during the singer’s concerts.
Spotify Wrapped is released on a different day every year, which keeps fans guessing and ultimately builds hype on social media.
Its release in early December each year is tied to a rise in Spotify’s app store rankings, so the Swedish streaming giant is doing everything it can to stoke the hype in advance.
Spotify Wrapped tracks users’ listening habits from early January to late October or sometime in November, meaning it omits the last few weeks of the year.
Therefore, Wrapped doesn’t really represent an entire year’s worth of statistics, despite being touted as the “story of your year.”
It also means you can listen to embarrassing artists to your heart’s content this December, safe in the knowledge that it won’t affect your Wrapped results.