Don't Look Back
"Spotify 20: Your Party of the Year(s)" provides a comprehensive look at your "full listener journey from the moment they joined"
What song were you super into in 2006? Was it the Fray’s “How to Save a Life,” the Black Eyed Peas’ “My Humps,” Bon Jovi’s “Who Says You Can’t Go Home,” or, say, any song from the first season of Hannah Montana? How many times in a row did you play that song? Do you really want to remember? Well, now you can, since a new feature on Spotify allows users who feel secure enough in their taste in music to dive deep into their personal stats, going back to when the platform launched 20 years ago. Fortuitously, it also shows users how their musical interests have (hopefully) improved since then.
If you want to take a walk down memory lane, you can check out “Spotify 20: Your Party of the Year(s)” in the app. In addition to revealing a playlist of your top 120 all-time most-played songs, it will show your all-time most-streamed artist, it will tell you the day you joined Spotify, the total number of unique songs you listened to, and the first song you felt worthy of hitting play on. And of course, you’ll get the requisite recap image to post to Instagram.
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To access it, you can search “Spotify 20” or the clunkier “Party of the Year(s)” or just visit Spotify’s bespoke website for the feature on your mobile device.
Spotify product manager Axel Ulfson clarified the difference between Wrapped and Party of the Year(s) at a press event, according to Billboard, saying that Wrapped “reflects a single year in culture and listening,” while the new feature displays “the full listener journey from the moment they joined Spotify.” So look back … if you dare.