Every year the music streaming platform “Spotify” does a fun little review for its users to find out their most-listened to songs, artists, and podcasts for the year. This “Spotify Wrapped” feature isn’t just something they give their listeners though – they also send it to their musicians and podcasters. Just as we loved showing up on your “Spotify Wrapped” posts, we also loved finding out more about our followers through our own “Spotify Wrapped”.
Spotify listeners, here are some of the fun stats we learned about you:
- The episode you listened to most was “How to get insane value from your Amex points – Episode 201“
- The episode you shared the most was “How to turn a $95 card into 4 ocean cruises – Episode 191“
- 73% of you discovered us in 2023, and most of you newcomers came from the United States, Canada, Australia, UK, and the Philippines.
- You streamed our podcast on Spotify from 55 different countries this year.
- 2,826 of you had our podcast in your top 10 podcast list for 2023!
- 842 of you had us as your top podcast!
As it turns out, almost all of us are Spotify listeners too. So as we were each reviewing our “Spotify Wrapped” summaries for 2023, Tim had the fun idea for a little game. We each sent him our top 4 most-played Spotify songs of the year, which he then turned into a “Party of Five” playlist. Then, we each had to guess who submitted which songs. Before I tell you which of us won this little “Party of Five Playlist” game, let’s see how well you do.
Can you guess which Frequent Miler teammate contributed which songs to the Party of Five playlist?
Remember, these aren’t our favorite songs necessarily, but our most-played songs, (which I suppose you could argue are more favorite than the songs we might call our favorite.)
You can listen to the playlist here, then take a quiz to test how well you know us below.
Take the Party of Five Playlist Quiz:
The rest of the Frequent Miler fellas are of the age group where playlists were painstakingly created by hitting “record” on a tape player once the right song came on the radio. But this tediousness should not be confused for dedication to the playlist craft. I doubt Greg, Nick, Stephen, or even Tim were “emo girls”, and we all know that us emo girls were masters of the cryptic coding and decoding of communication-via-song-selection. We emo girls may have been an embarrassing bunch, but we sure knew how to analyze and over-analyze a playlist.
All this to say, I’m very interested to see if any of our readers can beat my current winning place of 18/20 correct. Can any of you best me at this Party of Five Playlist game?
Let me know in the comments below!
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I use Spotify now but my first streaming music was Pandora’s ad-supported version where they injected commercials based on what songs and artists you chose. I quit when the only commercial they could find for me was for the Jewish Home For The Aged in Riverdale.
Which is just to say that I recognize two (2) of the artists on that list.
If it is any comfort, I think many of us were unfamiliar with each other’s music. Carrie did the best of us at guessing by far.
But I nonetheless found it fun listening to the list and imagining that a lot of FM content was probably created to that soundtrack.
Lol! I hear that Riverdale location is fantastic. 🙂
Caroline, drop the 2003 emo playlist!
Let’s see…2003 was just before I created my MySpace account and went full-emo…I think that would’ve been my Switchfoot and Matchbox 20 era.
As a Switchfoot and Matchbox Twenty fan, I approve of this message