Why your Spotify Wrapped looks wrong
Wrapped follows Spotify’s own rules, and they are not the ones most people assume: it stops counting in mid-November, a play needs more than 30 seconds, and some listening is left out on purpose.
It stops counting in mid-November
Anything you play between the cut-off and 31 December counts towards no Wrapped at all. Wrapped 2027 starts counting on 1 January 2027.
How each list is ranked
| In Wrapped | Spotify’s rule | Source |
|---|---|---|
| A listen | Counts once a track has played for more than 30 seconds. One stream is one listen, however long the song. | Spotify |
| Top Songs | Ranked by number of listens. | Spotify |
| Top Artists | Ranked by a weighted count of streams: the main artist on a track counts for more than a featured one. | Spotify |
| Top Albums | An album makes the list once you have played at least 70% of its tracks. Its score weighs total streams and how evenly you played the album. | Spotify, and here |
| Top Podcasts | At least 60 minutes across three or more episodes on three or more days, ranked by minutes. | Spotify |
| Top Genres | From genre tags on each track. Spotify aims to show at least three. | Spotify |
| Minutes listened | Your actual listening time, not the length of what you played. It includes everything: Private Mode, excluded tracks, even white noise. | Spotify |
Spotify’s description of Wrapped 2025. It has published nothing for 2026 yet.
What is left out of your taste
- Private Mode sessions Spotify newsroom, 5 December 2025
- Songs and playlists you have excluded from your taste profile, including plays from before you excluded them Spotify newsroom, 5 November 2026
- Kids and family music, when the “Include kids and family music in taste profile” toggle is off Spotify newsroom, 5 November 2026
- White noise and nature sounds, which Spotify filters out as best it can Spotify newsroom, 5 December 2025
Why other apps show different numbers
Spotify itself points out that some other services count a full calendar year or a rolling twelve months instead. Spotify newsroom, 5 December 2025
Trackify, which runs this site, is one of them. For free it shows Spotify’s own rankings of your top artists and songs over the last four weeks, six months and year: rankings, not counts. Its Plus plan counts every play, with minutes, from the day you turn it on.
When Wrapped itself arrives
Spotify Wrapped 2026 is not out yet: it is expected on Wednesday 2 December 2026, rolling out from about 12:00 UTC, about 85% confident in the date (as of 12 November 2026, 22:23 UTC).
Updated 12 November 2026.