You can now turn Spotify Wrapped into a multiplayer party with your friends
Your 2025 music stats now come with group rankings and playful awards
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What’s happened? This year, Spotify has turned its yearly Wrapped moment into a group experience with a new feature called Wrapped Party. Instead of just comparing screenshots with friends, you can now invite them into a shared space inside Spotify where everyone’s music habits show up together in real time.
• Wrapped Party lets you create a private room and invite friends to join.
• Each person sees their own stats alongside everyone else’s, side by side.
• It works on both iOS and Android and supports up to 9 people in a room.
What it matters? Wrapped Party is a new interactive space inside the Spotify app where your personal Wrapped stats are compared to your friends’. It’s designed to feel like a party inside the app, complete with animated graphics and playful comparisons.
- You’ll see rankings that stack everyone’s Listening Stats against each other, including total minutes streamed, top artists, and quirky Wrapped categories.
- You can scroll through and react with emojis to who streamed what all year.
- There are special “group-only” cards to give out fun awards based on your music history, like who’s the “most hopeless romantic” in your group or who streamed the most mainstream tracks.
How to start Spotify Wrapped Party?
Initiating a Wrapped Party is simple.
- Update the Spotify app and open your Wrapped, then tap the Wrapped Party tile.
- Create a room and share the invite link or QR code with friends. Once they join, everyone’s cards populate automatically.
The feature supports up to 9 people, so it works well for groups looking for something fun to compare. Anyone 13 or older can join Wrapped Party, but they need at least 30 valid streams from five or more artists from January 2025.
Why should I care? Wrapped Party takes the most social moment of the Spotify year and turns it into something you can enjoy together, not just post about.
- If you want a fun, low-effort way to compare music tastes, this feature makes the whole experience more personal, shareable, and surprisingly revealing.
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