Spotify Wrapped has been around since 2015, first appearing as a feature called “Year in Music” , and it officially took on the “Spotify Wrapped” name in 2016.

Quick Scoop

  • Spotify launched its first big year-end listening recap in 2015 under the branding “2015 Year in Music.”
  • The campaign was rebranded as Spotify Wrapped in 2016, and the name has stuck every year since.
  • That means the feature, in some form, has been around for about a decade now and has grown into a major yearly pop-culture moment by the mid‑2020s.

In short: if you remember a world before sharing your top artists every December, that was pre‑2015 streaming culture.

Little Timeline

  1. 2015 – First year-end recap rolls out as “Year in Music,” summarizing user and global listening trends.
  1. 2016 – Rebranded as Spotify Wrapped , pairing personal stats with fun visual storytelling.
  1. Late 2010s–early 2020s – Wrapped becomes a viral annual tradition, widely shared across social media and embraced by artists and fans.

TL;DR: Spotify Wrapped (under that exact name) has been around since 2016, but the year-end recap concept started in 2015—so you’re looking at roughly ten years of Wrapped history.

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