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It’s that time of the year again. The one reason to still have Spotify instead of Apple Music has arrived. To paraphrase a tweet I saw yesterday, “If nothing else I’m just a girl who likes being shown statistics about herself.”

I find it hilarious watching everyone having such a strong opinion about Spotify wrapped. Some people seem to despise seeing another persons wrapped more than genocide. Some people make out their whole life revolves around this fateful day. And some people swear to god that it’s all false and that their favourite artist isn’t actually KSI. Yeah right we see right through you.

So here I am to do exactly all of that.

First thing I realise every year is that maybe my taste is not quite as varied as I think. Four of my top five artists for the last 3 years haven’t changed. I was hoping something cool would slip in there, maybe Mungo’s Hifi or Minnie Ripperton. But nope. Without fail every year we have; A Tribe Called Quest, Oasis, Loyle Carner and IDLES. In past years we’ve had Arctic Monkeys and The Streets in there, this year it’s Fontaines D.C. grabbing fifth spot. You’d probably find me in a Brewdog pub convincing you to try this pint, “it’s the best IPA you’ll ever taste !” (you wouldn’t, I once had a job interview at Brewdog, it didn’t go well, pricks).

Anyway, was this what I was expecting? Yeah pretty much to be honest. But here’s me swearing to god that it’s fake, Oasis being second I was not expecting. I go months without listening to the Gallaghers only for them to always sneak in my top 3. I guess that’s me grasping onto the younger Jack and wishing I was still 16.

My top genres seem to always be the same aswell. No matter how much I try to vary what I listen to, I guess I’ll always float back to Rock, Hip Hop, New Wave and Soul. To be fair, that sounds pretty good to me. Guess that’s why they’re my most listened to genres. Makes sense.

Some more quick facts that aren’t really intriguing but you can have them anyway; I listened to 48,585 minutes of music and 883 different artists. No idea if that’s a lot or not. But I guess you can compare it to yourself and see if you’re a bigger music fan than this guy that calls himself a “music journalist’.

Every year they seem to jazz up wrapped a little more. They are adding more and more features and statistics. I give it 3 more years before they ruin the fun. Cos apparently that’s what these massive companies seem to love doing.

This year they basically told you which city you should move to. Based off the fact that I listen to Loyle Carner, The Streets and Mungo’s HiFi apparently I should be living in Brighton. Can’t complain Brighton’s a cool city, but I doubt many people were told that they should be living in Grimsby or Norwich were they.

One thing that does seem to change every year is my most listened to songs. And I can never guess what comes out on top. I guess this is good. See, I do have some variety in my taste, I swear !

You could have given me 100 guesses and I wouldn’t have got it this year. Apparently my most listened to song of 2023 is… ‘California Dreamin” by the Mamas And the Papas. Eh? Really? Apparently I listened to it 83 times this year ?? I swear I’ve had days when I’ve listened to a song over 83 times in 24 hours. For example, been obsessed with ‘No Scrubs’ by TLC recently, no idea why, but if Spotify decided to wrap up the whole year instead of ending in October for some reason, TLC would for sure be crowned my unlikely champions. ‘Arte Bella’ by Ken Boothe and the Bill Withers classic ‘Ain’t no sunshine’ came in at second and third. But no chance I listened to them less than The Mamas and The Papas. No disrespect to Mama Cass and co. but come on. Shoutout to Weezer sneaking in at fifth, lol.

Anyway, that’s my 2023 Spotify Wrapped. For those of you who hate seeing people put it on their insta story, firstly get over yourself you moody bastard. You must really despise me for writing a whole article about it. But I guess you’re not reading this so who cares 🙂 It’s just abit of fun init.