Spotify Wrapped 2025 has arrived, and with it comes a new feature that determines the “listening age” of users.
Every year, the music streaming service introduces a personalized list that shows each user their listening habits over the past year, such as top artists, songs and albums, and the number of minutes they spent listening to music.
For 2025 Experience Completedthe company decided to change things up and add several special categories in addition to the classics. One feature that has caught the attention of users and social media is the “age of the listener.”
“The story compares your music tastes to those of others in your age group, based on the release years of the tracks you listen to the most,” Spotify explained about the new element in a press release.
“Age is just a number. So don't take it personally,” says a slide showing Spotify's listening age, before revealing a number to reflect the user's taste.
Other updates include Top Song Quiz, Top Artist Sprint, Clubs, Fan Leaderboard and Clubs. But users seemed most interested in their listening age, as it was very different from their actual age.
Many have playfully criticized Spotify for essentially aging them by decades on X.
One user wrote“Going on 67, still bumping into someone,” above two photos of her best album being Pop Smoke's “Meet The Woo 2,” despite the fact that she was 66 years old.
“Since you were into the music of the late 70s. You're an old soul,” read the explanation under her listening age.
Just one more tweeted a series of question marks when Spotify determined that they were 60 years old because they liked listening to music from the early 80s.
Streamer Austin Shaw said“Oh, come on!” when he was given the audition age of 83 due to his love of late 50s music.
“There’s a story in your headphones,” the explanation went.
One shared account screenshots their hearing age compared to their father. Dad's Spotify Wrapped 2025 showed a listening age of 19 because he primarily streamed new music. “Your taste is on trend,” the explanation went.
But for User X, Spotify said they were 78 years old because they listened to music from the early 60s, considering them an “old soul.”
Although some users joke about being slightly offended, Today's presenters were proud of their Spotify Wrapped and Apple Music Repeat results.
Savannah Guthrie's best song was Ella Langley's “Were not for the Wind,” and Craig Melvin joined many Apple Music users in constantly having Kendrick Lamar and SZA's “Luth” in his rotation.
Al Roker was a big fan of Elton John's “Philadelphia Freedom” this year, and Sheinelle Jones loved hearing Olivia Dean croon “Dive.” Rounding out the list of TODAY hosts, Willie Geist frequently aired Morgan Wallen's “Just In Case,” and Jenna Bush Hager criticized Alex Warren's “Ordinary.”
