How to See Old Spotify Wrapped
The slides are gone for good. The playlists are still in your account, and so is the data they were built from.
Here is the answer on how to see old Spotify Wrapped: the interactive experience from a previous year cannot be reopened, because Spotify takes it down when the campaign ends. What remains is the playlist it generated, sitting in your library like any other playlist.
What remains is the playlist it generated, usually named for the year, sitting in your library like any other playlist.
For the underlying numbers, request your data from Spotify's privacy page, which returns your streaming history.
Everything a year-end summary shows is built from plays accumulated along the way, which is the part that can still be influenced. Plays on a track acts on it.
Wrapped is a campaign rather than a feature, and that distinction decides what you can get back.
A feature lives in the product and has a history you can scroll. A campaign is built, published, promoted and retired. Spotify generates the Wrapped experience for a window of weeks and then removes it, including the shareable cards, which is why old links stop working rather than loading an archived version.
Three things outlive it.
The playlist, which is created in your library and behaves like any other: it can be renamed, shared, and kept indefinitely. For most people this is the real archive, and it is why deleting old playlists in a tidy-up is a decision worth making deliberately.
The screenshots people took, which is the only record of the slides themselves.
And your own streaming history, available through a data request, which is raw rather than pretty but contains everything the summary was built from. Extended streaming history covers years and takes longer to arrive than the basic export.
What does not exist is a route back into the old experience, and no third-party site can reconstruct it, because they never had access to the campaign in the first place.
Finding the old playlists
Search your library for the year, or for the Wrapped naming Spotify used that season.
They are ordinary playlists and can be sorted by date added, which groups them neatly.
If a playlist is missing, it was deleted at some point. Spotify keeps recently deleted playlists recoverable for a period through the web account page.
Followed playlists are different from created ones, and the Wrapped playlists are created, so they are yours.
Recently deleted playlists can be restored from the account page on the web for a period after deletion, which is the one recovery route that exists here. It is not in the app, which is why most people never find it.
Requesting your data
The privacy settings on Spotify's account page offer a data download.
The basic package covers the last year and arrives faster. Extended streaming history covers everything and takes considerably longer.
The files are JSON, which is readable with any spreadsheet tool after conversion, and contain timestamps and track names.
This is the only route to the raw listening that Wrapped summarized.
The extended archive is the one worth asking for, and it can take weeks. Request it when you think of it rather than when you need it, because the wait is the whole obstacle.
Statistics outside Wrapped
The app's top artists and top tracks, with short, medium and long-term ranges, work all year.
Third-party services built on Spotify's API produce continuous statistics and can show years of history once connected, though only from the point they started tracking.
Some of them replicate the Wrapped format, which is as close as a past year gets.
All of them require granting access to your account, which is worth considering before connecting one.
If this year's is missing rather than last year's, a Wrapped that will not open covers the causes, and for numbers rather than slides, streams per song is available all year.
Rebuilding a past year from your own data
The data request returns raw listening history, and turning it into something readable is easier than it sounds.
The files are JSON, with one entry per play: the timestamp, the track, the artist and how long it was played. A spreadsheet tool opens them after a conversion, and any text editor confirms what is there.
Counting plays per artist and per track reproduces the two lists Wrapped shows, and summing the playback time gives the minutes figure.
The differences from Wrapped are instructive. Your own count covers the calendar year rather than Spotify's window, counts short plays that Wrapped's threshold excludes, and includes any listening Wrapped attributed to another profile.
Several open-source projects do the conversion for you, and they all require you to hand over the archive, which is a privacy decision rather than a technical one.
The archive is also the only record that survives leaving Spotify, which is reason enough to request one every year whether or not the slides interest you.
For artists
Spotify for Artists keeps historical data and does not retire it after a campaign.
Streams, listeners, playlist adds and sources are available across years.
The artist-facing year-end summary is also a campaign, but the underlying dashboard persists.
That makes the artist side the one place where last year's numbers are genuinely retrievable.
The artist dashboard also keeps the source data behind each year, including which playlists drove listening and in which countries. For anybody planning a release calendar, that history is more useful than any version of the listener-facing campaign.
Keeping the next one
Screenshot the slides when the experience is live. There is no other way to keep them.
Rename the generated playlist to something you will recognize in five years.
Request your data once a year if you care about the history, since the export covers a limited period by default.
And if you use a third-party tracker, connect it early in the year rather than in December, because it only sees what it watched.
For an artist, the equivalent archive is the dashboard rather than the campaign, and the listening behind it happens months earlier. Plays on a track acts on that, alongside the rest of the Spotify services we carry.
Screenshots are worth taking on the day rather than later, because the slides are removed with the campaign and the shareable cards stop resolving. A dozen images cost nothing to keep and are the only record of the format itself.
Questions people ask about past Wrapped years
Can I open last year's Spotify Wrapped?
No. The experience is removed when the campaign ends and is not archived per account.
Where are my old Wrapped playlists?
In your library, named for the year. They behave like any other playlist you created.
Can I get the data behind an old Wrapped?
Yes, through a data request in Spotify's privacy settings. Extended streaming history covers years and takes longer to arrive.
Do third-party sites keep old Wrapped?
No. They can show statistics from the point they started tracking your account, which is not the same as recovering a past Wrapped.
I deleted the playlist. Can I get it back?
Recently deleted playlists can be restored for a period from the web account page. After that, no.
Do artists keep their yearly numbers?
Yes. Spotify for Artists keeps historical data across years, unlike the listener-facing campaign.
Keep reading
- plays on a track — Everything a year-end summary shows is built from plays accumulated along the way, which is what plays on a track acts on.
- a Wrapped that will not open — If this year's is missing rather than last year's, a Wrapped that will not open covers the causes.
- streams per song — For the numbers rather than the slides, streams per song is available all year.