It can be a long wait for Spotify Wrapped, the end-of-year promotion that allows you to view and share your listening habits with everyone you know. Now, you can keep an eye on those stats daily, plus share your listening habits with friends.
You can view your Spotify usage statistics every 24 hours and share your updates via social media services, such as Instagram Notes or Spotify Messages. The new share icon gives you access to eight different services where you can post your stats.
Users can share their stats to eight different services.
SpotifyEvery week, you'll get updates on your top artists and songs from the past month, and Spotify will recommend new playlists. The app also gives you a "special highlight" based on a specific artist or song.
To access your personal musical data, click on your profile in the top left corner of the app and scroll down to "listening stats."
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The new features are somewhat similar to Spotify Wrapped, the service's annual end-of-year review of users' listening habits, which is designed to be shared. Every year, Spotify adds extra details to Wrapped, such as assigning users a listening personality or a city that supposedly reflects their music tastes. It's been the most popular way for Spotify users to view and share their music listening in the past. A number of third-party services do the same thing, including Volt.fm.
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Spotify is the world's largest music streaming service, offering 100 million tracks and serving more than 713 million users. In addition to its $12-per-month subscription service, Spotify also offers a free, ad-supported option.