Until now, Apple has essentially let Spotify dominate the year-end reviews for music streaming with Spotify Wrapped. The company has unleashed its best of 2022 lists and end-of-year recap for Apple Music users. The interface offers the platform’s flashy interactive feature with the aim of overtaking social media for a few solid days. Apple Music, made some charts for listeners, too, and comes with some changes this time around.
In the past, Spotify Wrapped has included blended playlists between friends, interactive games, and “aura” visualizations of their music taste. Charts showing top artists and genres are nearly inescapable online at the end of the year, and Spotify is already teasing this year’s Wrapped as users eagerly wait to see what data the platform has collected from them in 2022.
Apple Music Replay is available for users beginning today, accessed via the platform’s website. It’s not the first time Apple Music has tried competing with Spotify’s roundup — it launched Replay in 2019 in the form of custom playlists — but, until now, hasn’t had a major update.
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This year’s redesigned Replay includes more data-heavy, shareable features, like a personalized highlight reel of top artists, songs, albums, genres, and total minutes listened. Fans in the top 100 of an artist or genre will be able to see their standing, and users can track how their listening habits change until December 31st.
