Spotify Wrapped is a fun annual roundup of your listening habits. Every year, the music streaming app adds new features, like back in 2023, when it assigned people a Sound Town, meaning a city that supposedly matched their listening style. The Spotify Wrapped for 2025 just landed on Wednesday, and new features this year include a multiplayer game called Wrapped Party and an in-your-face assessment of your listening age.
That last one blew my mind a little. My actual age is 57. According to Spotify, my listening age is 79.
SEVENTY-NINE.
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President Donald Trump and former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are 79. Liza Minnelli is 79. Cher -- well, she's ageless, but technically, she's 79.
Look, I'm no teenybopper, I get it. I'm a proud Atari Wave Gen Xer. So it's not like I was 18 and was then told I was listening to AARP tunes. But does Spotify realize how it sounds to be hit with a listening age that's 22 years older than I really am?
What's my age again?
Lawrence Welk is about my speed, according to Spotify. Note giant GERITOL ad in the background. ABC Photo Archives /Getty Images
Is this the highest age Spotify Wrapped hands out? Someone listen to a bunch of Gregorian chants and see if you can get higher. Spotify Wrapped screenshot/Ty Pendlebury, CNET
I'm not the only one Spotify is aging up. My 18-year-old daughter was told she was 37, maybe because of her love of 1990s emo. Some people get aged down -- my colleague Corinne Reichert's 73-year-old mom was labeled 21. ("She listens to a lot of K-pop," her daughter says.)
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