2025 Wrapped thrills the internet compared to Spotify's 2024 mess
People seem to enjoy Spotify's 2025 Wrapped, especially compared to the mess from last year.
A much better year for Wrapped.
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Tim Marcin
Tim Marcin
Associate Editor, Culture
Tim Marcin is an Associate Editor on the culture team at Mashable, where he mostly digs into the weird parts of the internet. You'll also see some coverage of memes, tech, sports, trends, and the occasional hot take. You can find him on Bluesky (sometimes), Instagram (infrequently), or eating Buffalo wings (as often as possible).
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on December 3, 2025
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Last year's Spotify Wrapped was widely received online as a boring, plain mess. By that standard, Wrapped 2025 has been a stark raving success.
In case you missed it, Wrapped dropped on Monday and Spotify loaded it with updates in changes. (We've got all the details at Mashable.) Spotify added new features like Listening Age, Clubs, Top Albums, and much more. Spotify itself noted during a press event this week that it had seen pushback to the 2024 Wrapped heading into this year. So far, it seems people have liked the changes and a return to form for one of the internet's favorite days.
And not a moment too soon for Spotify, which has suffered one PR disaster after another these days — most notably widespread protests and defections over its CEO's military ties and the platform allowing ICE recruitment ads.
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But the internet cannot help but share its taste in music on Wrapped day and that rang true on Wednesday.
That’s right it’s the song of the year, “MacArthur Park Suite” by Donna Summer
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— BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL (@edsbs.bsky.social) December 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Spotify Wrapped is a yearly reminder that something is very wrong with me.
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— Mike Drucker (@mikedrucker.bsky.social) December 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
My Spotify wrapped age is 62. My actual age is 44. No notes.
— Jenn 🩷 (@alldolledup44.bsky.social) December 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
There were also folks who posted about not wanting to see Wrapped posts or about leaving Spotify this year.
I canceled my Spotify subscription this year so they sent my Wrapped through my living room window attached to a brick
— amy brown (@amybrown.xyz) December 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Topics Spotify
Tim Marcin
Associate Editor, Culture
Tim Marcin is an Associate Editor on the culture team at Mashable, where he mostly digs into the weird parts of the internet. You'll also see some coverage of memes, tech, sports, trends, and the occasional hot take. You can find him on Bluesky (sometimes), Instagram (infrequently), or eating Buffalo wings (as often as possible).
