"Listening age is just a number..."
By Alex Rigotti 3rd December 2025
Close-up images show Spotify (Photo by Matteo Della Torre/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Fans have reacted to Spotify Wrapped’s new feature displaying a user’s “listening age”.
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The streaming service’s annual report has officially launched, where listeners can check statistics like their top albums, songs and artists of the year.
AdvertisementThis year, Spotify has included a brand new feature called a “listening age”, which compares “your musical tastes to others’ in your age group, looking at the release years of the tracks you listen to most”.
Now, fans have reacted to the new feature, expressing outrage and shock at their bizarrely high listening ages – with stars like 26-year-old Laufey posting about her listening age of 85.
“My listening age is 68 i am unc”, one user bemoaned, while another wrote: “My parents have a younger listening age than me HELP”. “Listening age is just a number”, one person consoled themselves. See a range of other reactions below:
happy spotify wrapped day please show me yours… my listening age is 68 i am unc… pic.twitter.com/3CbefGGNCx
— rly cool girl (@hikingshawty) December 3, 2025
my parents have a younger listening age than me HELP pic.twitter.com/59sxq9fXtM
— cez 🎤🫶🏻 (@cerysmhh) December 3, 2025
Recommendedthe listening age i just got on spotify wrapped…….pic.twitter.com/5WkgvD6m8i
— CO ☀️ (@_emxnchj) December 3, 2025
listening age is just a number #spotifywrapped pic.twitter.com/OL85cOXMvm
— Lulu (@bellzthehellz) December 3, 2025
Laufey shares her top songs and her listening age via ig stories 😭 #SpotifyWrapped pic.twitter.com/R3QcphZHEa
— daily laufey 🕰 (@dailylaufeylin) December 3, 2025
Advertisementi just know none of y’all beat my listening age 👵🏼 pic.twitter.com/BLAshnPBn4
— c🥟 (@moretierney) December 3, 2025
This year’s Spotify Wrapped has several new features, including six clubs that “represent a unique listening style” and a Listening Archive, which details your “most memorable streaming days” using AI-powered personalised snapshots.
Bad Bunny reigns supreme as Spotify’s top artist for the fourth time. He nabbed the top spot in 2020, 2021 and 2022 previously – and this year, he netted more than 19.8billion streams worldwide in 2025.
Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ ‘Die With A Smile’ was the top song of the year with more than 1.7billion streams.
In the UK, Taylor Swift has once again taken the top spot again as the most streamed artist, Alex Warren’s ‘Ordinary’ is the UK’s most streamed song, and Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short n’ Sweet‘ was crowned the most-streamed album in the UK this year.
Earlier this year, Spotify landed in hot water this year due to owner Daniel Ek’s investments in a military drone and AI company. A wave of artists including Massive Attack have boycotted the platform, with the trip-hop band vowing that their new material shall never be released on it.
“The economic burden that has long been placed on artists is now compounded by a moral & ethical burden, whereby the hard-earned money of fans & the creative endeavours of musicians ultimately funds lethal, dystopian technologies,” they explained in a lengthy statement.
