How does Spotify Wrapped work - and who are the top artists and tracks of 2025?

The hotly anticipated Spotify Wrapped is revealing our apical tracks, artists and albums for 2025.

But however does the streaming service cipher personalised summaries of users' listening habits and fertile the UK's hottest artists?

Here's a look astatine however your information is used.

The level describes the yearly statistic arsenic "a accidental to look backmost connected your twelvemonth successful sound".

It says information is captured betwixt January and mid-November connected each account, though it mostly excludes thing streamed successful backstage mode. (Don't worry, your passionateness for the Spice Girls tin beryllium kept secret.)

Wrapped presents personalised listening statistics, which Spotify calls the "real communicative of your twelvemonth of listening", alongside planetary figures for comparison.

The streaming work says Minutes Listened reflects the existent clip spent listening to audio connected the platform.

Once a idiosyncratic streams astatine slightest 30 tracks, Spotify generates a database of Your Top Songs. Similarly, Your Top Artists ranks artists based connected full minutes listening to a peculiar performer.

Other metrics place the apical genres users person played, arsenic good arsenic podcasts and audiobooks ranked by full minutes listened. And if you've listened to astatine slightest 70% of tracks connected a record, you'll spot apical albums too.

Spotify besides creates Your Listening Age, a guesstimate of your property based connected the epoch of the euphony "you consciousness astir connected to".

The streaming work says the statistic is calculated utilizing a five-year span of euphony which users engaged with much than different listeners of a akin age.

Swift vs Bunny

Pop superstar Taylor Swift has been named the UK's most-streamed creator connected Spotify for the 3rd twelvemonth successful a row.

But she dropped retired of the apical spot successful the planetary rankings, coming 2nd to Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny, who secured much than 19.8 cardinal streams. Third was The Weeknd, followed by Drake and Billie Eilish.

Bad Bunny's LP Debi Tirar Mas Fotos was the astir listened-to medium worldwide.

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Spotify revealed Drake was the UK's 2nd most-listened to artist, followed by Sabrina Carpenter successful third, The Weeknd successful fourth, and Billie Eilish successful fifth.

Despite being the astir listened-to artist, Swift failed to interruption into the UK's apical 5 astir listened-to songs and albums of the year.

Alex Warren's Ordinary was the most-streamed song, and Short 'N' Sweet, released by Carpenter past year, the apical album.