Welcome and thanks for clicking in for issue #138 of the Spotify Newsletter.

And hello to the new Spotify Newsletter subscribers who have joined us this week!

✔️ What a week to be on Team Spotify!

Spotify Wrapped is here! Rejoice!

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year Andy Williams

All the year-end charts, data, and graphics are released and ripe for sharing. In addition to the standard personal data (top artists, songs, etc.), Spotify is providing listeners with social-friendly stats the company hopes will generate the kind of buzz it has in the past.

A cool, new part of Wrapped is the Listening Personality: a ‘music personality’ feature to analyze how you listen and assigns you one of 16 flattering categories, such as “Adventurer,” “Fanclubber,” and “Specialist.” If you love personality tests—who doesn’t—you’ll love diving into the 16 possible listening personality types created for 2022 Wrapped.

For the record: Adventurer.

I’m proud to say that my #1 tune this year is a repeat champion!

Spotify Wrapped is awesome. A genuine cultural phenomenon. And lots of fun. There will be those lugheads in media who try to rain on the Spotify parade — but to hell with them. Let’s all enjoy the annual overview of our music taste and revel in the joys of music and streaming and Spotify.

✔️ Amid all the Wrapped hoopla I’m excited to debut a new feature to the weekly newsletter: Featured Playlist.

The debut installment comes by way of the most excellent Music Club, a newsletter here on Substack featuring music recommendations delivered directly to your inbox every week. Lora does a bang-up job, and I highly recommend checking it out; from album and set recos to curated playlists spanning all genres, you’ll have music to listen to all month.

I’m happy to feature a new playlist from Music Club designed to get you ready for the weekend. Take a listen below.

✔️ I wanted to make mention of the passing of Christine McVie, the Fleetwood Mac singer- songwriter, who died Wednesday aged 79. I was only able to see Fleetwood Mac once - Hollywood Bowl on the reunion tour in 1997 - and they were, of course, awesome. But I always loved McVie. She was a sensational musician and singer.

★In the SPOTlight★

🔥 Spotify Wrapped 2022 Is Live

Spotify released its 2022 Wrapped recaps on Wednesday that dig through the data about your musical tastes for the year. 

This year's Wrapped includes new features like your Myers-Briggs-style "listening" personality type and a tracker of how your musical mood changes over the course of a day. As usual, Wrapped also sums up your own top artists, genres, songs and podcasts, plus total minutes listened on Spotify.

🔥 Spotify Instafest: How to Create and Share Your Dream Festival Lineup

Seen those festival lineups on social media? Here's how to get yours.

🔥 Bad Bunny is Spotify's top artist, duh

Bad Bunny has filled arenas, beaches, and most of the playlists on Spotify.

🔥 Spotify debuts WonderWrapped music space on Roblox

As an addition to Spotify Island, Spotify is introducing Spotify Island: WonderWrapped as a new space for fans to engage with music artists on Roblox.

🔥 Joe Rogan Had the Most Popular Podcast on Spotify in 2022

“The Joe Rogan Experience,” which has been exclusively available on Spotify since December 2020, took the No. 1 slot for most popular podcast of the year globally and in the U.S., for the second year in a row.

🗣 Podcast Action 🗣

Inevitable Foundation, Spotify Launch New Grant Program for Disabled Podcasters

Joe Rogan, Alex Cooper and Emma Chamberlain Top Spotify’s Most Popular Podcasts List

Spotify wants to help newbie podcasters sound like the pros

🎧 The Playlist List 🎧

Spotify Wrapped: Harry Styles had the most-streamed song of 2022

Every Song With Over 1 Billion Spotify Streams

Learn About Those Music Genres You May Not Have Heard Of

Celebrate the Holidays With the Bittersweet Sounds of Our First Sad Sierreño Spotify Singles Collection

New Lamborghini Spotify Playlist Is Inspired By The Huracan Tecnica's V10

💡 Tips & Tricks 💡

How to create your Instafest fake music festival lineup via Spotify

6 Powerful Ways to Convert Spotify to MP3

What Happens When You Clear Spotify Cache

🖌 Design Notes 🖌

Spotify Introduces Kitsune Vulnerability Management Platform

🥊 SPOTIfight! 🥊

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek posts lengthy tweet-storm complaining about Apple

Spotify, Epic Games get ally in Musk in fight against Apple fees

🔥 Extra News 🔥

These are the highest-earning World Cup songs on Spotify

Tourism campaign lures Aussies with sounds of Canada via Spotify

Spotify Expands NextGen Audio Program to Historically Black Colleges & Universities

The Astros Had A Fun Spin On Spotify Wrapped

⚡️ Featured PL ⚡️

Ready for the Weekend By Music Club Playlist

🎵 New Adventures 🎵

Bicycle Race - Remastered 2011 Queen

Patience Tame Impala

Bondurant Women The Texas Gentlemen

Mean Flower Joe Henry

Sugar on the Floor Etta James

Under My Wheels Alice Cooper

Save Me Wilson Pickett

Rest In Peace.

Show Me a Smile Fleetwood Mac

Sweet Revenge Christine McVie

Hold Me - Early Version; 2016 Remaster Fleetwood Mac

Say You Love Me - Early Version Fleetwood Mac

Little Lies - 2017 Remaster Fleetwood Mac

📧 Get In Touch 📧

If you have a question, idea, request, or simply a desire to chat about Spotify, please email me at jeff.spotifynewsletter@gmail.com.

😀 Have a Nice Weekend! 😀

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