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Three Spotify leaders explained their yearlong process to build Wrapped.
  • Spotify Wrapped takes over a year to build, with work across designers, data scientists, marketers, and more.
  • Three Spotify leaders brought Business Insider into the process, which one called "the biggest thing we do every year."
  • After 2024's mixed reception, a Spotify leader said that they used what "underwhelmed" and

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Spotify Wrapped 2025

Every year in December, Spotify releases Wrapped: a full wrap-up (as it were) of all of the music you listened to that year. But what dates does it actually cover?

Spotify gives users their listening data in shareable screenshots meant for social posts that show off their top genres, artists, and songs, and are given an accompanying playlist that showcases their top listens.

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Spotify Wrapped 2025 is here, dropping in the early morning hours on Wednesday. And after 2024's version received decidedly meh reviews, a lot has been changed and added.

The company referenced that, let's say, constructive feedback at a press event for Wrapped 2025, promising this year's product was jam-packed with cool stuff. We've got the details on everything you want to know about Wrapped 2025



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Spotify Wrapped 2025 is here. The fan favorite was released on Wednesday morning — that's Dec. 3, 2025, the exact date we expected at Mashable — setting off the annual tradition of everyone sharing their musical taste for the year.

Here are the details you need to know to get yours.

What is Spotify Wrapped?

Started in 2016, Wrapped is the annual year-end product from Spotify that details users'



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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the America Business Forum at Kaseya Center in Miami on November 06, 2025.
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says AI isn't overhyped because the real payoff — automating the costly, boring backbone of business — is only just getting started.
  • Eric Schmidt said AI is "under-hyped" because automating routine corporate work is still ahead.
  • He said firms use AI to automate the "boring" backbone of operations, such as billing.
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People wear face coverings inside the arrivals area at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on August 12, 2021 in Kenner, Louisiana.
The interior of New Orleans Airport.
  • A man has been charged with making a bomb threat after he couldn't pay for airport parking.
  • The 35-year-old Louisiana native was arrested at New Orleans airport last month.
  • "We have the bomb," he told an airport phone operator during a "threatening" call.

A man faces a maximum of up to a decade in prison after calling in a bomb threat when he


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This set contains detailed elements from season five of Stranger Things. If you haven't watched the first volume of episodes yet, beware of spoilers ahead!

To celebrate the series finale of Stranger Things, Netflix and Lego have teamed up to drop an incredibly exciting new set for fans to build. The huge Lego Icons Stranger Things: The Creel House set is jam-packed with Easter eggs, though fans


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A new grading of safety in major artificial intelligence models just dropped and well, let's just say none of these AIs are going home with a report card that will please their makers.

The winter 2025 AI Safety Index, published by tech research non-profit Future of Life Institute (FLI), surveyed eight AI providers — OpenAI, DeepSeek, Google, Anthropic, Meta, xAI, Alibaba, and Z.ai. A panel of eight


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