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Except in some cases, not all of those things have been done accurately.

Just anecdotally talking with people outside the internet-o-sphere and you’ll quickly find people with iffy Spotify Wrapped statistics.

Spotify Wrapped 2024

Even stranger,they then reported that Spotifyturned the feature off.

Again, this isn’t the first time strange stats have been found amongst Wrapped playlists.

But it’s not just the hallucinated stats that users are unhappy about this time around either.

Spotify Wrapped 2024

Where’s the flavor?

It was imaginative, and artistic, and reflected the creativity of the artists that people were listening to.

It was colorful, bright, and engaging almost none of which comes across in Spotify Wrapped 2024.

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Users don’t like the block shapes and boring colors.

A quick look at complaints on X shows you that people were expecting something more personal, more fun.

Instead, they got something that looked almost identical to that which their friends recieved.

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That seems to be all but gone this year, replaced instead with rushing squares and circles.

Each page almost completely identikit, in color, shape, and animation.

None of it felt like there was a person involved something we’ll get to later.

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There was loads missing

Spotify Wrapped wasn’t just about your listening stats, far from it.

It was filled with fun stats, genre rankings, and even paired you with a city last year.

It dripped with personality, which made it more fun to share with your friends and family.

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All of that was gone this year.

So what did we get instead?

One of them is the most interesting; the AI podcast.

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Now, personally, I don’t really get it.

But it does go to show that Spotify isall inon AI.

That’s a more worthy addition to the musical wrap-up, but users aren’t completely convinced.

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I have reached out to Spotify for comment, but I am yet to hear a response.

What can we do?

First off, there are other streaming platforms with year-end roundups.

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