With countless different genres, millions of listeners, and artists, another musical year has now come to an end as the well awaited Spotify Wrapped officially arrived once again on Wednesday, December 4th, 2024.
Spotify Wrapped gives listeners an annual recap based on music or podcasts that they have streamed. Spotify allows users to see their top artists, top songs, and how their taste in music varied over the course of a year. The annual feature of Spotify Wrapped has become a tradition that sparks conversations in the hallways and classrooms of HHS yearly. To commemorate the 2024 Wrapped, we polled HHS students to find out their top artists and listening habits.
This year, the students of HHS have been quick to share their Wrapped on many social media platforms and with friends and peers, as most of the students at HHS utilize Spotify as their favorite streaming app, according to HHS students polled. All of the attention to the Wrapped has created a snapshot of the school’s diverse music taste as a whole.
Collectively, most of the students of HHS participated in listening to mostly hip hop, rap, pop, and rock music in the past year, while a fewer number of individuals also enjoyed some country, indie, and bollywood tunes.
Many students had different top artists with similar overall genre interests, however some of the more popularly listened to artists among the students of HHS include Taylor Swift, Travis Scott, Drake, Frank Ocean, SZA, Tyler, The Creator, Chappell Roan, Kendrick Lamar, Don Toliver, Charli XCX, and Lana Del Rey.
Students at HHS also had a huge number of different top songs, however according to our poll, many students have the following songs in their top five: 505 by Arctic Monkeys, Red Wine Supernova by Chappel Roan, and Suburban Legends by Taylor Swift.
Focusing more on the quantity of music that HHS listened to this year, on average, each student at HHS listened to about 46,726 minutes of music. However, outlying students in HHS exceeded that average substantially, listening to a far greater number of minutes. In addition, on average each student at HHS listened to about 662 artists over the course of this past year.
HHS Students feel that music is important to individuals, community, and life overall. Sophomore Adam Khashab said, “Music gets you through the tough nights when nobody’s around”, and freshman Lilly Bandi said that “Music can express things that our language cannot”.
As the year winds down, Spotify Wrapped offers an exciting way for students to reflect and connect on their year through music. Music is not only for fun and entertainment purposes, but also provides serious connections in communities. Music, a universal form of expression, has the ability to bring people together and in HHS, Wrapped provides a perfect reason to chat with others and discuss music experiences, and to discover new artists and songs. No matter what peoples’ music tastes may be or how many minutes of music each person listened to that year, one thing is clear from our data: music plays a big role in bringing the students of HHS together.
