Yes, YouTube Music has a version of Wrapped. It's just called Recap instead. "Wrapped" is Spotify's name for its year-end roundup, so if you've moved over from Spotify or you use both apps, you won't find anything labeled "Wrapped" inside YouTube Music. Look for Your Recap instead. It gives you your top songs, top artists, total listening time, favorite genres, and a set of shareable cards, and it usually shows up in late November each year.

So the short version: same idea, different name. If you searched "youtube music wrapped" and came up empty, that's why. Below is what Recap actually includes, how it stacks up against Spotify Wrapped, when it arrives, and how to pull up your listening stats at any point in the year instead of waiting for December.

Why it's called Recap and not Wrapped

Spotify trademarked and popularized "Wrapped," so every other streaming service had to come up with its own word for the same annual feature. Apple has Replay. Amazon has Delivered. Deezer has its year-end recap too. YouTube Music went with Recap.

People still type "youtube music wrapped" or "yt music wrapped" into Google because Wrapped became the generic term, the same way people say "Google it" or "grab a Kleenex." YouTube even leans into this a little by launching Recap right around the same time Spotify Wrapped hype starts, so the two go head to head every year. If you're curious how the other services handle it, we've covered whether Apple Music has a Wrapped, whether Deezer has a Wrapped, and whether Last.fm has a Wrapped.

What YouTube Music Recap actually shows you

Recap pulls together your listening from the past year into a slideshow of stats and playlists. Recent versions have included:

For the 2025 Recap, YouTube added an AI angle called "Ask about your listening," built on its Ask Music feature. It suggests prompts like "How did my listening change over the year?" or the deliberately weird "Describe my listening as a weather report," and it can answer custom questions about your habits, then hand you a shareable graphic. YouTube began rolling the 2025 Recap out in late November, following its usual pattern of landing before Spotify Wrapped drops in early December (9to5Google).

Recap vs Spotify Wrapped: the real differences

If you're coming from Spotify and wondering whether Recap is the same thing, it's close, but there are a few honest differences worth knowing.

Timing. Spotify Wrapped is famously reliable. It shows up in the first week of December, and everyone posts it the same day. Recap tends to roll out gradually over late November, and it can appear in the YouTube Music app, the main YouTube app, or at youtube.com/musicrecap at slightly different times. That's why some people see theirs a week before their friends.

Shareables. Both make cards you can post to Stories. Spotify's are polished, colorful, and built to go viral. Recap's are decent and now include AI-generated animated options, but they've historically driven far less social buzz than Wrapped.

The data. Spotify has years of history to draw on and adds playful identity stuff like your "listening age" and listening personality. Recap focuses more on the current year and leans on Google's AI to answer questions about your patterns. Whether that feels richer or gimmicky depends on you (SoundGuys).

Buzz. This is the honest gap. Wrapped dominates the internet every December. Recap gets a fraction of the attention. Tech press has bluntly called YouTube's roundup a flop in the culture war against Wrapped, even when the underlying stats are fine.

What listeners actually say about it

The reaction to Recap is mixed, and the r/YoutubeMusic community is pretty vocal about it. The most common gripe isn't that Recap doesn't exist, it's that people expect it to feel as big as Wrapped and it doesn't. Some complaints are about accuracy. When YouTube's broader Recap rolled out for 2025, users reported top "interests" they'd never actually watched, with one widely shared thread flatly titled "2025 YouTube recap is AI slop" and another user pointing out that basic numbers like total watch time were missing entirely (AOL / In The Know).

The takeaway from the chatter is worth setting expectations around: YouTube Music Recap is real and it's usually accurate for music specifically, but if you're switching from Spotify, treat it as a lighter, quieter version of the ritual rather than a like-for-like replacement. If you want more than one snapshot a year, you don't have to rely on Recap at all, which we'll get to below.

How to get your YouTube Music Recap

When Recap is live, here's how to find it:

  1. Open the YouTube Music app on your phone (Android or iOS).
  2. Tap your profile photo in the top right corner.
  3. Select Your Recap, then tap Get your Recap.

If you don't see it there, open the main YouTube app, go to the "You" tab, and look for the Recap banner, or just visit youtube.com/musicrecap in a browser. Google's own help pages confirm Recap is now reachable on the web and desktop, not only the mobile app like in earlier years (YouTube Music Help).

One catch: you need enough listening history to qualify. Google requires roughly 10 hours of music listening between January 1 and November 15 for the end-of-year Recap, and about 4 hours for a seasonal one. If you barely used the app, or you just started, Recap may not generate for you. For a full walkthrough of the feature, timing quirks, and troubleshooting, see our main guide to YouTube Music Recap.

Don't want to wait until late November for a single snapshot? If you also listen on Spotify, our free tool shows your stats on demand. Music Profile Viewer gives you your top artists and tracks across every time range, any day of the year.

It uses official read-only sign in and stores nothing. It reads Spotify only, so it won't touch your YouTube Music account, but it's a quick way to check your listening without waiting for the next Recap or Wrapped.

How to see your YouTube Music stats any time, not just in December

Recap only comes around once a year, which is the biggest downside compared to always-on stats. The good news is you have a few ways to check your listening whenever you want.

Inside the app, YouTube Music keeps your history and builds personalized mixes based on what you play, so your recent activity and favorites are never far away. For the deeper stuff, top tracks by real play count, full listening history, and long-term trends, the most reliable route is a Google Takeout export of your YouTube and YouTube Music history, which downloads as a file you can dig through yourself. We break down every method, including Takeout, in how to see your YouTube Music stats.

One honest note on tools. The official YouTube Data API can surface your liked songs, playlists, and the artists you subscribe to, but it does not expose your play counts or listening history, since that older watch-history data was deprecated. So any tool promising your "top tracks by plays" straight from the API alone isn't giving you the full picture. True play-count history comes from that Takeout export. We're building an honest YouTube Music section around exactly this, so you know what's possible and what isn't.

And if you also use Spotify, you can see your Spotify listening stats any time with Music Profile Viewer. It reads Spotify accounts only, not YouTube Music, but it's a quick way to check your top artists and tracks without waiting for the next Wrapped or Recap to roll around.

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