The Sinister Grift of Spotify 2020 Wrapped is here | 2021 live cricket score

Spotify Wrapped

The Sinister Grift of Spotify 2020 Wrapped is here | 2021 live cricket score

The Sinister Grift of Spotify 2020 Wrapped is here | 2021 live cricket score
Spotify has launched its annual "Wrapped" round-up music streaming service, a look back at the 2020s most famous music for both individual users and the site as a whole. The list included their top songs of the year, their top artists of the year, top genres, minutes listened to and more for individual users, most of whom can currently see the feature on their app.

This year, there are a few additions to the feature. First off, an in-app quiz is here. It asked me to choose the artist in mind that I felt I listened to the most.

With your most listened to the album, you can also track your past, something I found profoundly uninspiring, but here we are. There's also supposedly a feature that gives you a rundown of podcasts that you're listening to on Spotify, but for that, I use another app, so it didn't appear on mine.

With Spotify 2020 Wrapped, the company also launched badges. Can't say it does too much for me to be granted random awards, but you might enjoy it, so no judgment over here.

A few other new additions are available, but they're pretty low-key. You can find out more here if you are very interested, but I don't know why you would do that to yourself.

Even, when it comes to streaming services, a catalogue of our year in music (and podcast) consumption is probably definitely the best of all possible lists. For instance, Netflix is notoriously discreet about its viewing figures, but imagine what your customized 2020 Netflix Top 10 will look like; chilling is the very thought. No one wants to know just how many times they watched season 3 of episode 5 of The Office, as it would reveal much too much about the darkness lurking inside of us.

So while it's fun to hate people who post screenshots of their Spotify Wrapped lists, the lists are kind of reassuring because they reveal that none of us is very cool. (The Twitter buzz about the HBO "The Undoing" show should be ample evidence of that, but this is only in case you need more.)

If there is something that individuals can keep in mind when we enter the months-long wait to manufacture and administer a vaccine, it is that the most important thing is to do this, not what we listen to as we do it.