06 December 2024 - Spotify Wrapped 2024
Spotify Wrapped 2024: Backlash, Controversy And Memes
Dani Di Placido (Forbes, 05/12/2024)
After a long, agonizing wait, 2024’s Spotify Wrapped was finally released on Wednesday morning. Loyal listeners were sorely disappointed, lashing out at Spotify with memes and mockery.
Spotify Wrapped 2024 is here, and Taylor Swift is once again the platform’s most-streamed artist
Maria Sherman (AP News, 01/12/2024)
‘Tis the season to unpack Spotify Wrapped. And it should come as no surprise that for a second year in a row, Taylor Swift has been named its most-played artist.
Hate Your Spotify Wrapped? You Aren’t Alone
Maya Georgi (Rolling Stone, 04/12/2024)
Since its launch in 2016, Spotify Wrapped has become an end-of-year staple that people treat like a holiday tradition. But this year, Spotify Wrapped sucked the joy right out of the beginning of the month with a lackluster data dump that disgruntled several users online.
Spotify Wrapped is creepy, meaningless – and shows just how much data big tech has on you
Alexis Petridis (The Guardian, 30/11/2023)
As a marketing exercise, it’s hard not to be hugely impressed by Spotify Wrapped. In less than a decade, the streaming giant has somehow managed to turn what’s essentially a bit of automated data-scraping into a global event.