When does Spotify Wrapped come out? Full list of previous dates and potential 2025 release
Spotify Wrapped is just around the corner - but when exactly could it come out? 👀🎤
- The wait is on for Spotify Wrapped in 2025.
- A yearly highlight, users are waiting for the round-up.
- But when exactly could it arrive this year?
It is the most wonderful time of the year and it will soon get even more special. Spotify Wrapped is just over the horizon and excitement is already building.
Users will be counting down the days until they can discover what their listening habits looked like this time around. Taylor Swift was the top artist last year, but will she keep the crown?
Having been an annual fixture, it means we have plenty of years to look back over to get clues about when it could arrive. Here’s the potential release dates in 2025.
When did Spotify Wrapped come out last year?
It might be hard to believe but we are nearing a decade of Spotify Wrapped releases. The very first one came out in 2016, following an earlier attempt in 2015 called ‘Year in Music’.
The release dates for the last eight Spotify Wrapped round-ups look like this:
- 2017 - December 6
- 2018 - December 6
- 2019 - December 5
- 2020 - December 2
- 2021 - December 1
- 2022 - November 30
- 2023 - November 29
- 2024 - December 4
When could Spotify Wrapped release in 2025?
Look back through the recent years of Spotify Wrapped, you may have noticed a trend that saw it move steadily earlier each year - until 2024 that is. The date had crept forward from early December to late November over the course of the first half of the 2020s.
However, last year’s release bucked that trend and moved it back to a December launch date. It has traditionally come out on a Wednesday, especially for the 2020 dates.
Spotify Wrapped has tended to be released on the last week of November/ first week of December. Following the push back to December 4 in 2024, it is likely that the 2025 edition will also come out in the final month of the year.
If we open up our calendars, that would mean December 3 would be the prime date for Spotify Wrapped’s release this year. Meaning you still have plenty of time to influence what your round-up will look like.
When does Spotify Wrapped’s tracking period start?
The counting period for 2025 started all the way back on January 1. Once the calendar flipped over from 2024 to this year, the tracking started.
It means Spotify has been keeping an eye on your listening habits for eight full months already. So, there is likely to be a few surprises awaiting you when Wrapped is rolled out this year.
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