When is Spotify Wrapped 2025 coming out? Release date history, how to access after app update message

As we near the final weeks of the year, platforms of all stripes will soon begin rolling out their annual recap features, which let users see the content they have interacted with most.

While numerous tech giants release these recaps, music streamer Spotify is usually the most anticipated.

Known as Spotify Wrapped, this look-back lets you see which songs you interacted with most over the past 12 months. 

So when will Spotify Wrapped 2025 be available? Here’s what you need to know.

What is Spotify Wrapped 2025?

Spotify Wrapped is the music streamer’s annual year-in-review compilation that allows Spotify users to see which songs, albums, and artists they interacted with most throughout the year. The company also reveals the most-streamed songs, artists, and albums worldwide among all its users.

While the feature is ostensibly a year-end gift to users, Wrapped doubles as a massive free marketing campaign for the company. Millions of Spotify users frequently share their Wrapped results publicly on social media and privately in group chats and DMs.

This kind of online virality benefits Spotify since, by sharing their Wrapped results, users are essentially advertising the company’s streaming service to their friends and followers.

Spotify Wrapped: Release Date History

Spotify has historically released its annual Wrapped compilation at the end of each year, but the exact date varies. 

Spotify Wrapped has existed since 2016 (or 2015 if you count its first “Year in Music” recap), and Fast Company has covered the annual launch nearly every year since. In years past, these are the dates Spotify Wrapped launched:

• 2024: December 4
• 2023: November 29
• 2022: November 30
• 2021: December 1
• 2020: December 1
• 2019: December 5
• 2018: December 6
• 2017: December 13
• 2016: December 14
• 2015: December 6 (called Spotify’s 2015 “Year in Music”)

Spotify Wrapped 2025 Release Date

As you can see from the dates above, the annual Spotify Wrapped compilation has been released as early as late November and as late as mid-December. 

Fast Company has reached out to Spotify seeking more information about this year’s Wrapped launch date.

The streamer has not publicly hinted at a date yet, but it does currently have a placeholder page on its website teasing Spotify Wrapped 2025.

Based on historical dates, it’s unlikely that Spotify will announce Wrapped 2025 over the weekend. That means the most likely dates for the launch of Spotify Wrapped 2025 would be sometime next week.

Either way, Spotify likely wants to achieve maximum press and social media attention for the feature.

How do I access Spotify Wrapped 2025?

When Wrapped 2025 is released, you’ll be able to access it as you have in years past: through the Spotify app on iOS and Android.

On Spotify’s Wrapped 2025 placeholder page, the company provides a QR code that users can scan to download the Spotify app. The page also includes a message telling users to “Get the updated app to experience 2025 Wrapped at its best.”

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