After weeks of anticipation, some Spotify users are left underwhelmed by the streamer's personalized year-in-review feature, Spotify Wrapped — with many even going so far as to call it "boring" or a "flop."

Chief among the complaints are that Spotify prioritized the inclusion of an AI podcast for Wrapped over the other, clever and creative data stories that it typically offers — like those that identify your music personality, match you to a town that shares your musical tastes, describe your “audio aura,” or turn your listening history into a game you can share with friends, among other things. Others are upset over the lack of more detailed stats and the exclusion of information they've come to expect, like top music genres and top podcasts. Spotify declined to clarify how they decided which features to include.

On X, a number of people are sharing their feedback alongside the #SpotifyWrapped2024 hashtag, where they're describing this year's annual review of their listening history as "boring," a "flop," "underwhelming," a "disappointment," and more. Although this hasn't stopped people from sharing screenshots of their Wrapped, a scroll through the hashtag currently surfaces more complaints than accolades.

For example, one top post calling Wrapped a flop has over 108,000 likes as of the time of writing.

This year, Spotify heavily bet on a partnership with Google to turn users' Wrapped experiences into an AI-powered podcast over the other details and features that have typically made Wrapped so engaging. One Spotify user specifically pointed to the lack of "quirky interactive bits" like the "silly personality assessments," while another noted the new "Your Music Evolution" feature was "quite strange." (The latter had repurposed the niche genres Spotify uses for its personalized daily playlist, Daylist, as a way to describe how users' musical tastes changed throughout the year.)

What Spotify users wanted was the same sort of Top Genre information they had in previous years, the complaints indicate.

Others found that Wrapped didn't include their Top Podcasts in 2024, but this feature appears to have been offered to some podcast listeners, and not others, posts on X indicate.

Spotify says users must have at least two top shows in order for Top Podcasts to be a part of their Wrapped experience. A show is eligible if the user listened for at least 60 seconds of two unique episodes and listened to the show on two different days throughout the year.