Vratislav Holub The year has flown by and only the last few weeks separate us from the Christmas holidays and the new year. This is exactly the ideal time to compare your activities over the past year. At least that's what music streaming service Spotify is going by. Every year in December, its subscribers get the Spotify Wrapped feature with a clear goal - to show subscribers what music they spent the most time on, what they like and who their favorite artists are. It's all in the form of Instagram stories.
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Amaya Toman With the arrival of Spotify Wrapped, various social networks are literally flooded every year, where users want to share their musical taste or, for example, boast that they are among the too small percentage of the biggest fans of a particular artist. Apple was also inspired by this function and came up with its own Apple Music Replay solution. But it was nowhere near as successful as rival Spotify. The Cupertino giant, on the other hand, is running out of steam and it is quite a shame that it is forgetting about the most important possibilities.
Dominance Spotify Wrapped
As we mentioned above, with the arrival of December, the internet is literally overflowing with Spotify Wrapped summaries from the subscribers themselves. Apple therefore decided years ago to come up with the same solution within its music streaming platform Apple Music. But instead of success, he met with criticism. While the competitive overview provides details on the most listened to artists, albums, songs or genres and a number of other data, Apple took it a bit simpler - in the first versions of Replay, it showed the subscriber a list of the most listened to songs and artists. Something like this simply did not reach the scope of Spotify's solution.
It's no wonder, then, that Apple Music users felt a little left out. While others were sharing detailed reports from Spotify with each other, they were simply out of luck and had to make do with what was available to them. Of course, in the final, nothing is so important. Streaming platforms are mainly for playing music rather than just statistics. But Spotify made excellent use of its position as the absolute number one in the market and gave people exactly what they wanted - it was able to awaken passion and curiosity in them. Practically everyone then wants to look back and find out which performer accompanied them most often in a given year.
Apple Music Replay 2022
A real change came only this year. We have finally seen a significant shift in the Apple version of Apple Music Replay, which, in addition to the playlist of the most listened songs, also brings quite interesting data. As subscribers of the apple music platform, we can finally find out how many times we played our most played songs, how many minutes we spent listening to our favorite artists or what our most popular albums are for a given year. The best of the best are then available in a specially created playlist. On the other hand, although Replay has moved forward, it still does not reach the quality of Spotify Wrapped.
Sharing an overview
What Apple Music Replay lacks is easy sharing. Your personal overview is available within Web applications, when the only option is to download a picture of your chosen TOP artist, album or song. Something like this is simply not enough. In the image below, you can see what such an output actually looks like. On the contrary, Spotify Wrapped brings complete data informing about the complete selection. At the same time, the competitive overview goes against the artists themselves, who have the same overview at their disposal, just from the opposite side of the barricade. So they can easily boast about various data - for example, how many listeners they had, from how many countries or how many streams/hours they "played" in the ears of their fans.
Total bullshit. I use Apple Music and I know what I listen to and what I want to listen to. I'm not interested in any Replay at all. And I wouldn't even think of sharing it with anyone. Music is an intimate matter. Thumbs up Apple.