What Spotify songs did you play to death this year? Spotify Wrapped has the answer. The music streaming service's retrospective of our most played songs, artists and albums gives us a chance to reflect on our tastes and shows how much of ourselves as cultured consumers we have and thinking about audio is perhaps nothing. Spotify Wrapped brings you the most played songs of the year, the diversity of your tastes - many of us in the office have been labeled "genre fluid" - the number of countries your music originated from, the number of new artists you discovered, or if you just played Daft Punk, Get Lucky, repeat it for several years. This is an extremely useful tool for analyzing how your tastes have evolved over the years, or just how they've stayed the same, giving you easy-to-share infographics that you can post to Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. Not surprisingly, Apple has also copied the format of its Apple Music streaming service. But hindsight is not always kind to us. Even a quick look around TechRadar's office revealed a mix of surprises and hard-to-take favorites, as our editor discovered that David Guetta was his artist of the decade, when it turned up that a personal writer, kept anonymous for his own safety. , had spent more than three days listening to Counting Crows in 2019. That's 1% of the entire year.
(Image credit: Spotify / TechRadar) Some of the staff proved better than others - our video game writer Vic Hood was pleased to find Nirvana to be his most played band over the past decade and continues to command our unwavering respect for their likes. This writer was shocked to discover that his most performed artist in 2019 was due to one song, Tokyo's White Lies, performed thousands of times, rather than any of the lo-fi hip-hop artists who had been proselytizing all along. year. (Frank Ocean, Biig Piig, sorry!) And while it's nice to poke fun at our sometimes crazy music consumption, I remember my student years, when I passed out from stress while writing my thesis, with Damon Albarn's Lonely Press playing in my headphones. for 10 hours and continue to maintain a controversial relationship with the song: the data tracking implemented in Spotify Wrapped shows how hard data often doesn't fit our own perception of the situation.
(Image credit: Spotify / TechRadar) You can go to Spotify Wrapped and enter your Spotify login information to see what you've been mindlessly saying over the past ten years, whether you have a free account or an account. Spotify Premium. Did you have big surprises? Or do you not have the strength to admit them? As Spotify Wrapped says: "Here's something you can share with the world, or hide, or whatever."