YouTube Music leapfrogs Spotify Wrapped with new seasonal recap playlists

YouTube is introducing new seasonal recaps of your prime artists, songs, albums, and playlists to YouTube Music, beginning first with the Spring Recap. YouTube rolled out a Spotify Wrapped-style annual recap on the finish of final 12 months, however now YouTube proprietor Google is taking the idea additional with seasonal rundowns.

“Much like the 2021 Recap, you’ll discover your customized content material within the Spring Recap touchdown web page on the YouTube Music app alongside along with your customized Spring Recap playlist,” YouTube product supervisor Ayshaw Khan wrote in a weblog submit. “Need to inform your folks about your favourite songs of the Spring? Simply share your Spring Recap playlist and stats by merely tapping the arrow on the backside of your stats card.”

The discharge of Spotify’s annual recaps usually mark a pleasant few days on the web yearly — it’s all the time enjoyable to choose thoughtfully observe what music individuals listened to probably the most. Evidently YouTube is making an attempt to make that shared expertise a extra frequent custom, although I haven’t but seen any YouTube Music recaps cross my Twitter timeline simply but.

In case you have a recap out there, please share it, I’m begging you. I’d return the favor, however in scanning my very own YouTube Music web page, the recap doesn’t appear to be exhibiting up. I not too long ago resubscribed to Apple Music, and I’d supply up my Apple Music Replay 2022 playlist, however the service is telling me I haven’t listened to sufficient music but to generate one. Ouch.