There’s something immensely satisfying about looking at a year’s worth of listening condensed down to a neatly packaged presentation. We’re now able to get this from a few different streaming services — yesterday saw the release of both Apple Music Replay 2024 and the first time Amazon has gotten into the game with Amazon Music Delivered 2024. Spotify, though, has been doing it for almost a decade, and today we get this year’s iteration of Spotify Wrapped 2024. A similar program started in 2015 under the name “Year in Music,” was rebranded as Wrapped in 2016, and has been going strong and growing ever since. For 2024, Spotify is adding a new way to feed you all your streaming info — an AI podcast.
You can still get your streaming info as you have in the past, as a series of Instagram-style story cards scrolling to your favorite tunes of the year, you can also get that information presented to you by two AI-generated podcasters. The new feature, called Your Wrapped AI Podcast, is powered by Google’s NotebookLM.
This isn’t Spotify’s first foray into the world of AI, having piloted a podcast translation feature last year that cloned podcasters’ voices to offer podcasts in other languages, as well as AI DJ. For those of us who want to get our yearly recap on the go, getting to listen to it instead of needing to read through the stats is an interesting proposition.
In addition to the story cards and the AI podcast, this year Spotify is introducing Your Podcaster Clips, where podcast fans will be able to see end-of-year messages from the top podcasters on Spotify thanking their listeners. There’s also a “2024 in Podcasts” hub that will have a slew of other stats and roundups for Spotify podcasts.
The experience extends beyond regular Spotify listeners, with Creator Wrapped. Artists, creators, and authors get their own stories to help them celebrate their year through Wrapped for Artists, Wrapped for Creators, and the new Wrapped for Authors. They’ll be able to see information about all aspects of fan engagement. Wrapped for Creators is adding eight different personality classifications, similar to what we saw debut with Listening Personalities in Spotify Wrapped 2022, as well as insight into listener tastes, age, and what other things they’re listening to.
“While Wrapped for Artists has always been a fun way for artists to look back on their year and celebrate with fans, we’re always looking to enhance the experience.” said Madeleine Bennet, head of Global Music Go-to-Market for Spotify. “The Spotify for Artists team has been super-focused on helping artists build stronger connections with their listeners around new music releases, especially through tools like playlist pitching, Countdown Pages, and Clips. Because releasing new music is such a crucial moment, this year’s Wrapped will put a special emphasis on these milestones.”
Getting to your Spotify Wrapped 2024 stats is a pretty straightforward process, as you’d expect considering it’s a major yearly Spotify feature. Open up the app on your device — be it Android or Apple — and you’ll be greeted with a Spotify Wrapped 2024 screen on Home that you can click to open your personalized experience. From there you can check out your story cards or listen to your AI podcast about you Spotify year.
It’s only possible to view the Wrapped experience in the mobile app (either on iOS or Android).
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Instagram is making its way to yet another screen, and this time, Apple TV is getting a taste of the Reels rabbit hole. The company has launched a dedicated Instagram app for Apple TV, bringing Reels, longer videos, and live shows to the big screen. So, if watching one quick clip on a phone somehow turns into an hour of scrolling, there's now a much larger screen for that.
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Audio-Technica, a brand well known for making some of the best studio and professional headphones on the market, has just come out with the ATH-AWX7000, which the company itself claims to be its "finest headphones ever." The new flagship closed-back headphone has debuted at an eye-watering price of $3,799. It combines hand-finished Japanese woodwork with a newly developed 58mm driver.
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