Spotify Got My Top Artists WRONG 😱😱😱

and now i must unwrap and rewrap my wrapped to SOLVE THE CASE

I love Spotify Wrapped. I have a group of former colleagues that participate in a “Wrapped Swap”, where we all submit our top song, and then as a group we try to guess whose song is whose. It’s a delight.

But something is amiss. While the Top Songs list is always impeccably selected, something has seemed… suspicious… about my Top Artists.

As you can see, four of these top artists are simply the performers of top songs.

I was promised distinct Top Artists and Top Songs! Recycling one list for another is not fair! I’m a paying Spotify Premium customer!

I had to dig deeper. And so I exercised my GDPR-given right to request my Spotify listening history, and with a little analysis in Python, I was able to replicate the Top Artists list.

And what I found confirmed my concern.