December 1st Means Spotify Wrapped And Its Parodies Are Here Again
Yesterday, Spotify dropped its fourth installment of Spotify Wrapped, its end-of-year feature which reveals a user's most listened-to songs and artists of the year (well, everything from January 1st-October 31st). And, as has become tradition, the memes soon followed.
With 2020 being, well, you know, Spotify's annual slideshow made plenty of references to the difficulty of the year, at one point joking "Thanks for spending all 67 months of 2020 with us." Listeners had a similar take on their year in music, joking about how their year-end list reflected their depressed mood throughout 2020.
Others were disappointed to find that they didn't agree with what Spotify's statistics told them was their year in music.
#SpotifyWrapped yeah um this is what my spotify wrapped felt like lol pic.twitter.com/jI7XkkEINz
— allison (@iiloveguyfierii) December 2, 2020
me: “my spotify wrapped is going to be great this year”me when I see all the basic songs on my spotify wrapped: #SpotifyWrapped pic.twitter.com/jeUq6vh4HF
— Eliott💥 (@CaseForTheFBI) December 2, 2020
And loads of people took the opportunity to remind people that Spotify pays its artists a rather paltry sum of money per stream.
i wonder if artists see themselves at the top people’s 60,000+ hour spotify wrapped like “wow that person gave me at least $3.74”
— giabuchi lastrassi (@jaboukie) December 2, 2020
that time again where ppl forget their whole politics and give free advertising to spotify en masse
— katie dey (@katie_dey) December 2, 2020
I get the fun in doing the whole Spotify year end thing, truly. BUT THEY ARE KILLING INDEPENDENT MUSIC ON PURPOSE!
— Nathan "Will Not Celebrate His Birthday" Walker (@nathanisariot) December 2, 2020
Overall, the Spotify wrap up was for many yet another reminder of how bizarre 2020 was, but one thing about the tradition didn't change: the FOMO from Apple Music listeners.
Me seeing everyone talk about their Spotify stats for the year, but I have Apple Music pic.twitter.com/rXnYLwcE7v
— 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐨𝐛 #TLOU2GOTY (@JacobGOTY) December 2, 2020
every year apple music users get re-played while spotify users unwrap each other pic.twitter.com/Zo3ThixNr7
— yeet lover's pizza (@chunkyfila) December 2, 2020
When you're an Apple Music person… pic.twitter.com/nUV2rCa8vw
— Aubrey Strobel (@aubreystrobel) December 2, 2020
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