On the morning of November 29, music listeners at East explored their Spotify Wrapped results on Spotify, recapping their year in music.
Spotify unveiled the 2023 Wrapped slide show, including top five artists, top five songs and other details about user’s listening habits throughout the past eleven months.
Along with the individual listener’s stats, the app also released the United States’ Most-Streamed Artists which can be found on Variety’s website.
- Taylor Swift
- Drake
- Morgan Wallen
- The Weeknd
- Bad Bunny
Spotify also created a list of the top 5 most streamed songs in the United States for 2023.
- “Last Night” by Morgan Wallen
- “Kill Bill” by SZA
- “Flowers” by Miley Cyrus
- “Ella Baila Sola” by Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma
- “Boy’s a Liar Pt. 2” by Pinkpantherss and Ice Spice
Juniors at East Ginger Sather, Ava Tyburski, Devin Hatch, and Cassie VanMeter, who have a combined listening time of 223,893 minutes, all share Taylor Swift as their top artist of the year. Tyburski and Olivia Speer, also a junior at East, are both in the top .05% of Taylor Swift Spotify listeners. Speer listened to 30,255 minutes just of Taylor Swift in 2023, and Tyburski listened to 42,064 minutes.
Although Taylor claims many number one spots, most highschool students’ top genre was rap, influenced by artists like Drake who topped Junior Dylan Baker’s Wrapped. Drake makes top 5 appearances in VanMeter, Woods, and Hatch’s Wrapped as well as his new album made him a popular artist this year.
To thank their fans artists also record video messages that play for their top listeners to make it more personal. Based on top artists and top songs, Spotify creates playlists just for the users to allow them to look back on their year in music and listen to a mix of some of their favorite songs.
Spotify started making Wrappeds in 2016 and since then have grown in popularity as users will post their results on social media and compare their results to others. The increase of Spotify Wrappeds presence on social media has led to an excitement around it as people wait all year to see the summary of their listening habits.
Now that the 2023 Spotify Wrapped has been released, people will start new listening habits and wait until the end of Nov. 2024 to once again see how their music taste changed that year.
Jordan Fikis, Mae Robinson, and Mia Rivera are staff writers for Oswego East’s online news magazine The Howl.