I never thought Spotify’s Wrapped list would be the thing that led me to an existential crisis, but here we are.

The streaming giant’s annual round-up of users’ listening habits often produces intriguing wrinkles for social media to pore over: our top songs, albums, and genres of the year. But this year’s Wrapped, released on Thursday, has offered something new that’s confused everyone: your Spotify listening age.

Spotify Wrapped’s listening age is such a lie.

According to the streamer, your listening age is based on the idea of a “reminiscence bump”, which they define as “the tendency to feel most connected to the music from your younger years”.

“First, we look at the release dates of all the songs you played this year. Next, we identify the five-year span of music that you engaged with more than other listeners your age. We’re hypothesising that this five-year span matches your ‘reminiscence bump’, assuming you were between 16 and 21 years old when those tracks were released,” Spotify........

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