It's that time of year when companies begin pretending that a) the year is already over, and b) you should be grateful to them for giving you a tiny yearly glimpse of your own data.  

But your data is yours. You shouldn't have to elaborately ask for it, but that tends to be the state at the moment. You can get your streaming history from Spotify by going to Account > Security and privacy > Account privacy (of course). They're hoping you don't, because they really want you to eagerly wait for them to tell you what you listened to this year (not counting the last few weeks of it) in parsimoniously abbreviated detail and laboriously garish graphic design.  

But if you do, because you can, and you get a Spotify API key, which you can, then you can play with Curio, my experimental app for organizing music curiosity. Curio does a potentially puzzling assortment of things that I like to do, but it also has a query language, so that neither of us is limited by what I already think I want.  

And so, among other things, you can make your own Wrapped.  

Request your data. When you get it, it'll be a zip file. Unzip it and you'll get a folder full of files. Go to the Curio query page. Hit the "Load more data" button and select all the downloaded files in that folder whose names start with "Streaming_History_Audio_". Curio will stitch them all back together for you. Now you have your listening history.  

Of course, to make sense of your listening history, you would need a bit more data. But you could run this query:  

listening history
:ts>=2024
:ms_played>=30000
|id=(...spotify_track_uri,([:]),split.split:@3)
|track info=(.id.other tracks)
:(.track info.album.release_date:>2024)
|date=(...ts,(T),split.split:@1)  

Translated, that says:
- start with your whole listening history
- filter that to just the plays from 2024
- filter that to just the songs you played at least 30 seconds of
- perform some arcane shenanigans to extract the ID from the Spotify track URI
- use that ID to get the full track info from the Spotify API
- filter the list to just the tracks that were released in 2024, because to a music person that's what "year in music" means
- extract the date from the Spotify timestamp  

Hit Enter to run that, and then type "2024 tracks full" in the query-name box to the right, and hit Enter there too.  

 

Now you have the right data to start doing some analysis.  

You could now, for example, run this query:  

2024 tracks full
/artist=(.track info.artist:@1),song=(.track info.name),date
|points=(....count,sqrt....sqrt)
/artist,song
|points=(.of....points,total)
#rank=points  

- take the 2024 tracks from the first query
- group them by artist, song name and date
- give each artist-song-date triplet the quad root of the number of times you played it that day (because I don't trust looping very much)
- group the artist-song-date triplets into artist-song pairs
- score the pairs by totaling their triplets
- sort and rank the pairs by points  

You could save that one as "2024 songs scored". Notice that it doesn't end after 5, or even after 100.  

 

You could also do a very similar query for artists, just skipping the song part:  

2024 tracks full
/artist=(.track info.artist),date
|points=(....count,sqrt)
/artist
|points=(.of....points,total)
#rank=points  

 

And if you save that one as "2024 artists scored", then you could also use it for:  

2024 artists scored
/genre=(.artist.artist genres.genres)
|points=(....count,sqrt....total),top artist=(.of:@1.name)#rank=points  

and now you have a top genre list that isn't limited to 5, shows you artist counts and your top artist for each, and because this is all data, even lets you see which artists belong to every genre (click the "of[...]" link).  

 

But those are just questions I asked. You can ask your own.  

You should always be able to ask your own questions about yourself. You should demand to be.