If you’re not into streaming your favorite music via services like Pandora, iHeartRadio, or Spotify, then you might be a little lost in this column.
Every year, Spotify releases a package of data gleaned from your listening habits on its application – termed “Spotify Wrapped.”
Spotify Wrapped (SW) has been released annually since 2016 and allows Spotify users to view a compilation of data about their activity on the platform over the past year and invites them to share it on social media.
However, I’ve not been an avid user of the application since just recently this year.
After all, I should mention that most of my usual music choices exist on iTunes and/or in physical formats like CDs and vinyl albums.
And even then, I’m piggybacking off my sister’s paid Spotify account by listening whenever she’s not at work.
Overall, we’ve both got similar music tastes across the board, but have different requirements to help keep focused on tasks.
She prefers Asian import popular musicians and bands while I prefer something fast-paced and bounce between playing rock, something from the 80s-00s decades, or general pop music.
Sometimes, I’m working late to finish my stories to make our printer’s 8 a.m. Tuesday deadlines so I’ll put in a few more hours a week on the app than she does, too.
However, we didn’t know how much more I was listening to her Spotify than she was until her Spotify Wrapped for 2023 came out about a week ago.
I managed to listen to one song more than anything else in the entirety of her music catalog and usual choices.
I found that statistic rather hilarious but she didn’t agree with my sentiments and I was told that I threw off her groove and that she wouldn’t be sharing her SW results on social media this year.
Since then, it’s sparked a small argument about how many times I repeat a song rather than an entire playlist and I’ve been asked by her not to re-organize her carefully curated playlists either.
Spotify has this feature where if you “like” or “Heart” a song or playlist then it’s added to your overall “favorites” catalog.
Basically, she doesn’t want to scroll down further for her playlist choice of the day because I like too many songs or other playlists without putting them in a separate folder.
Well, I’ve rectified my folder issues with her Spotify and am moving my favorites into an individual folder.
And, sure, this could all be resolved if I would just pay for my own Spotify account, but, then I’d have to shuffle my favorite list over there somehow – which means more work than I’d like to bother dealing with.
So, until I’m inspired to do that I’m just going to try hard to adhere to the new rules set down by my sister and try not to throw off her groove for next year’s Spotify Wrapped.
I’ll let you know how that pans out in a year – in the meantime, I’ll be trying to avoid enduring Christmas music as long as possible.
