Spotify released its annual Wrapped listening summaries for all platform users on Wednesday. For Trojans, many were eager to share which artists and songs topped their list this year.
Anne Fitzgerald, a junior studying media arts and practice, said her top artists of the year were similar because she listens to Taylor Swift a lot.
“My top five were Taylor Swift, Gracie Abrams, Noah Kahan, Mt. Joy and Olivia Rodrigo, " Fitzgerald said. “I feel like it’s pretty accurate. I was not surprised.”
This year’s top global artist on the platform was Taylor Swift, topping the chart with more than 26.6 billion global streams following the release of her 2024 album, ‘The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology.’
This year’s Wrapped dropped a few days later than in the last four years. The list’s earliest release came in 2023, when it came out on Nov. 29.
Joining Swift on the chart, The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, Drake and Billie Eilish follow Swift at the top of the list.
Fitzgerald said Swift’s Tortured Poets Department was her favorite album this year.
“My top [song] was ‘My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys’, but I liked them all,” she said.
Ivette Arriaga, a junior studying accounting, said her top artists this year were different compared to previous years.
“My top five artists were John Summit, Zedd, Role Model, Porter Robinson and Rezz,” she said.
Sabrina Carpenter also enjoyed a big year with the most streamed songs in the U.S. and globally with her most popular song “Espresso” reaching over 1.6 billion streams, according to AP News.
This year, Spotify introduced a new feature that included a dataset called “Your Music Evolution,” tracking down three distinct musical phrases for each user and a personalized playlist. The “Your Top Artist” feature also changed, now including data on a user’s “Longest Listening Streak,” in addition to “Top Listeners” from previous years, according to ABC News.
Daniel Cortez, a sophomore studying human biology, said his Wrapped this year was the same as last year because he listened to many of the same artists.
“My top five were Kanye West, Y$ which is like Kanye and Ty Dolla Sign together, Ty Dolla Sign, Travis Scott and The Weeknd,” Cortez said.
Apple 2024 replay also had a breakthrough year with many record artists such as Kendrick Lamar topping the charts for songs with the most streams. His track “Not Like Us,” spent more than six weeks at the top of the Global Daily Hot 100 chart since its release in May.
Sylvia Ettinger, a senior studying flute performance, said her top artists this year were pop music artists, and that she prefers Apple Music to Spotify.
“It’s Gracie Abrams, Taylor Swift, Clairo, Holly Humberstone and Maisie Peters, " Ettinger said. “I get very hyper-fixated on one artist. So I’ll listen to their entire discography until I get tired of them.”
Kaid Ismail, a junior studying economics, said his top five were Travis Scott, Comethazine, Playboi Carti, Y$ and Kanye West.
“‘Vultures’ from Kanye West, one of my favorite ones so far this year, Travis Scott. I like all of them, ‘Rodeo,’ and ‘Nightcrawler’ is a good one,” Ismail said. “I love ‘AstroWorld.’ It’s another one of my favorites, and the new one, ‘Utopia,’ is really good too, like ‘Meltdown’ and ‘Modern Jam.’”
Arriaga said the albums and songs she had streamed the most were all over the place.
“The top songs were ‘Tough’ by Lana del Rey, and then I had ‘Go Back’ by John Summit, and then I had a Sabrina Carpenter song in there, ‘Please, Please, Please,’” Arriaga said. “Then I had another EDM one, and then another song by Conan Gray. So it doesn’t add up.”
Podcasts had a big year as well. More than one-third of the top 50 podcasts on Spotify were video podcasts this year, compared with only one out of seven in 2023.
“The Joe Rogan Experience,” Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” and “This Past Weekend with Theo Von” were among the top five podcasts globally on Spotify. The podcasts made headlines when Rogan and Von each hosted Donald Trump ahead of the presidential election and Cooper hosted Vice President Kamala Harris.