Becca Monaghan
Dec 02, 2021
It’s officially December which means two things: Christmas and Spotify Wrapped.
The streaming service’s hotly-anticipated feature dropped to its 381 million monthly users on Wednesday (December 1). While some furious users had a hard time loading their Wrapped playlist, others jumped straight on social media to share their year-in-review.
Spotify named Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny as the most-streamed global artist for the second year in a row – with more than 9.1 billion streams.
Olivia Rodrigo took the crown for the top streamed song of the year with her chart-topping hit, Drivers License. She also secured number one for the most-streamed album of the year with SOUR.
Naturally, top tier Spotify Wrapped memes started rolling out on Twitter – and let’s face it, the memes were much funnier than seeing everybody’s “Audio Aura.”
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In a hilarious post, one user wrote: “To all the young people out there who haven’t gotten the Spotify Wrapped results they were hoping for, just remember that there’s no wrong path.
“I left school without a single Spotify Wrapped to my name and, hey, I seem to be doing okay.”
Others exposed their peculiar listening habits, including a piano rendition of Wii Sport – and who are we to judge?
right fuck this https://t.co/YTKhJupWDF— lauren o'neill (@lauren o'neill) 1638368587
i’m paying her rent at this point #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/EDORr9RuF6— ✧*༺ 𝖕𝖍𝖎 🦇 (@✧*༺ 𝖕𝖍𝖎 🦇) 1638372557
To all the young people out there who haven't gotten the Spotify Wrapped results they were hoping for, just remembe… https://t.co/inhvpunAAZ— Ross Sayers (@Ross Sayers) 1638370970
Priorities got momentarily pushed to the side as the nation was fixated on the only thing that mattered.
not now, mommy has to post her #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/hqEFQFbQmO— Flexy 🌟 (@Flexy 🌟) 1638372642
pain #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/oqQO5IP0eD— josh 🇰🇷 (@josh 🇰🇷) 1638349492
SPOTIFY WRAPPED: uhhhh i think someone understood the assignment, and that someone was YOU! ME: *silently staring… https://t.co/BrBDpTFmkq— Matt Buechele (@Matt Buechele) 1638400651
Naturally, non-Spotify users felt excluded, which pushed Rylan Clark to ask whether he was weird.
I don’t have Spotify. Am I weird?— R Y L A N (@R Y L A N) 1638374201
A lot of you should try being in the top 1% of listeners to women— Clarke (@Clarke) 1638381738
Others found fault with the 2006 ‘Paint’ graphics.
spotify needs to fire their graphic designer immediately #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/9uyLAPzG0x— 𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕚𝕟𝕖 (@𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕚𝕟𝕖) 1638375149
spotify wrapped: "vibe check! you understood the assignment and kept it on fleek with this podcast that lived rent… https://t.co/B3ZhuyQize— Astead (@Astead) 1638372777
spotify the only tech company to figure out how to successfully rebrand "we've been tracking you" to "isn't this FUN"— Delia Cai (@Delia Cai) 1638383076
It's that time of the year again #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/Aibnrim4fb— ältē 🎋🇳🇬 (@ältē 🎋🇳🇬) 1638309075
me getting ready to judge everyone's Spotify Wrapped even though i have the music taste of a 12 year old living in… https://t.co/fyYzdIGGgb— delaney ⚡ (@delaney ⚡) 1638341802
While one mocked the influx of ads for non-paying streamers.
My #SpotifyWrapped looks amazing tbh 😍 https://t.co/AEAxL5KUGg— Tyler (@Tyler) 1638431299
yall r like My spoTifY wraPped sucks mf u listened to it??— sativa (@sativa) 1638433956
My boyfriend apparently listens to more music than 100% of listeners in India. Woah #spotifywrapped2021 #Spotify https://t.co/SC6JSpWx4j— ☾︎ (@☾︎) 1638433852
Spotify also unveiled the biggest songs, artists and albums of 2021.
Most streamed artist:
- Bad Bunny
- Taylor Swift
- BTS
- Drake
- Justin Bieber
Most streamed song globally:
- “drivers license” by Olivia Rodrigo
- “MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)” by Lil Nas X
- “Stay” by The Kid LAROI with Justin Bieber
- “good 4 u” by Olivia Rodrigo
- “Levitating” by Dua Lipa feat. DaBaby
Most streamed album globally:
- SOUR, Olivia Rodrigo
- Future Nostalgia, Dua Lipa
- Justice, Justin Bieber
- =, Ed Sheeran
- Planet Her, Doja Cat
Let’s see what 2022 has in store.
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