The whole point of Spotify Wrapped has become to show your friends — and, often, the internet at large — that you have impeccable taste in music. The question is: How long does the company track your listening for the super-popular year-end product?
We don’t know, exactly, when Wrapped will be released — though we do have a good idea — but there clearly isn’t too much time left to affect your top songs.
Unfortunately, Spotify has been tight-lipped about when it stops tracking your listening habits to include them in your Wrapped. The best practice would be to assume Spotify is including your listening up until the day of Wrapped, but we do have more info about when they might actually stop tracking.
When does Spotify stop tracking for Wrapped?
There was a persistent rumor that Spotify stopped tracking listening habits for Wrapped once October ended. The streaming giant outright denied that rumor a few years back, so it feels safe to assume the tracking goes into November.
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We here at Mashable have actually asked Spotify about the tracking period and, well, the company is not sharing the exact timeline. It does say, however, that it tries to include as much time as possible.
“We start at the beginning of January with all of your listening that begins right then at the beginning of the year, and it goes all the way through collecting data up until a few weeks before we launch the Wrapped product,” Molly Holder, the senior director of product for personalization at Spotify, told Mashable last year.
“We aim to get as much of your year in listening covered as possible,” Holder added.
We do know for sure that the period after Wrapped is released and before Jan. 1, 2026, is an untracked no-man’s land. So once Wrapped does drop, feel free to fire up your guilty pleasures.
