About

Spotify Pie Chart refers to a third-party website that uses a Spotify user's listening history to show them their preferred artists and music preferences via a pie chart graphic. It's similar to the annual Spotify Wrapped that is officially headed by the company. The pie chart tool was released via Github in June 2022 by a UCLA student named Darren Huang. It generated buzz on social media, most notably on Twitter, in the following days as people shared their charts online.

History

On June 2nd, 2022, UCLA student Darren Huang posted a Story^[1] to his Instagram ^[2] that revealed he'd created a GitHub^[3] website that would create a pie chart for a Spotify user based on their listening history, similar to Spotify Wrapped. He shared his personal pie chart in the Story, showing his top artists as Bladee, Radiohead and Playboi Carti (shown below).

Features

The Spotify Pie Chart Github site allows users to sign into their Spotify accounts, upload their listening history and then produce a graph displaying their preferred artists and music genres.

Online Reactions

Inspired by Huang's Instagram Story, users on the platform started to share their charts starting on June 2nd, 2022. The sharing spread to Twitter shortly after when Twitter^[4] user pitifulthespian posted the first known pie chart on the platform. On June 3rd, multiple^[5] users shared their pie charts. Mass threads of quote retweets ensued going into the first week of June 2022. On June 7th, 2022, YouTuber Justin Whang posted a tweet^[6] including his Spotify Pie Chart, earning roughly 1,300 likes in less than a day (shown below).

Also on June 7th, Redditors began sharing their pie charts in subreddits like /r/teenagers^[7] and /r/SpotifyHub.^[8] Additionally, news outlets like USA Today^[9] and Yahoo!^[10] released articles about the website.

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