Your top artists and songs were almost identical anyway. Right now you may be thinking, okay big deal. I’m sure there are perfectly reasonable answers to these questions, I just don’t know what they are. But then why do it at the beginning of December? Why not make it a New Year’s tradition? Also, why does it take 2 months to prepare data that Last.fm tracks in real time? I can go there any day of the year and get an up to date report of my listening history for any date range I want. And of course any listening that happens after the Year Wrapped is released won’t count. Spotify has to prepare the data and create the slideshow. It also makes sense that there’s a cutoff date.

The songs you’ve been listening to lately, those in most recent memory, aren’t considered at all. Now we can see why people are sometimes surprised by Spotify’s top picks. In other words, the songs you play in November and December are not counted in your Year Wrapped stats. This gives our teams enough time to assemble everything. And voila: this moderator post on the Spotify Community board reveals the answer.Īny listening after this won’t be included.

Therefore, I looked to Spotify’s tracking methods to discover a reason for the discrepancy. So we can trust Last.fm is an accurate baseline.

My spotify top artists