Spotify Wrapped 2023 LIVE: World reacts to learning their favourite songs

It’s that time of year again. Spotify is telling its users just how bad their music taste is with its Spotify Wrapped roundup – and it has some special new features this time around. The annual marketing campaign tracks subscribers’ music consumption, from favourite genre or artist all the way through to the total number of minutes they spent listening to songs over the year. There are some surprises too, including a system that gives you a city based on your listening habits – or a “sound town,” as Spotify calls it. Follow live as Spotify’s 574m subscribers make sense of the annual bundle of stats that gets everybody so excited. How Spotify compiles its Wrapped statistics November 29, 14:44 Spotify have never officially said how they compile their data for Wrapped, but a Reddit user in 2021 revealed how they believed it works. In the post Hudsonlovestech pointed out six key takeaways that they discovered after downloading their data from the music platform. They were: This year the data was logged from January 1st 00:00 to November 15th 23:59. You have to listen to a song for more than 30 seconds for it to count in your song rankings. Your top songs are calculated by play count rather than total time listened. In your top 100 playlist only the first 10 songs are sorted by play count, the rest are close but sorted by artist. Your total time listening includes podcasts. Your top artists are calculated by total play counts rather than total time listening. Here's what Alicia Keys thinks will be on her Spotify Wrapped 2023 November 29, 14:43 @spotify We asked some of your faves who they think will make an appearance on their #SpotifyWrapped this year 💚 Who is definitely appearing on yours? Spotify has asked celebrities who they thought would make it onto their Wrapped. Here's what they said... How to see your Spotify Wrapped 2023 November 29, 14:38 Finding your Spotify Wrapped couldn't be easier. You just need to go to your Spotify app on the day it drops and it'll be there waiting for you at the top of the app alongside your saved songs and albums. Alternatively, if you just use Spotify on a laptop or desktop you can visit spotify.com/wrapped and use it from there. These are the biggest songs of 2023, according to Spotify Wrapped November 29, 14:37 Miley, check. Harry Styles, check. Taylor Swift, check. No surprises there, then. Mae Muller reveals her Spotify fan stats November 29, 14:29 How could we forget the UK's valiant contender for Eurovision 2023? Mae Muller finished right at the bottom, in 25th place, in Liverpool earlier this year. But with 6m new listeners turning to her on Spotify, it doesn't seem to have done her career any harm... Spotify Wrapped just keeps getting earlier... November 29, 14:20 The past few years Wrapped has arrived earlier and earlier, as reported by the Radio Times, so it's not surprise that its arrived on November 29th. Here are the dates it arrived on the previous years. 2017: 6th December 2018: 6th December 2019: 5th December 2020: 2nd December 2021: 1st December 2022: 30th November Female pop stars dominate Spotify in 2023 November 29, 14:19 As people scramble to check out their personal listening habits, Spotify has also released its global trends – and female pop stars came out on top. Taylor Swift was the most streamed artist in the UK and across the world, with an eye-watering 26.1bn global streams this year. She also had the second-most streamed album with Midnights, narrowly beaten by Bad Bunny's Un Verano Sin Ti. SZA took the third spot with SOS. Miley Cyrus’ record-breaking hit Flowers was the most streamed song, with more than 1.6bn global streams this year. In the second and third spots respectively, were Kill Bill by SZA and As It Was by Harry Styles.