Whoa: Spotify Wrapped 2025 Assigns Users to Ominous 'Levels' and We're Absolutely Obsessed

Finally, a Year-End Recap That Matches Our Psychological State

If you're anything like us, you've been refreshing your Spotify app since midnight waiting for Wrapped to drop. And this year, the streaming giant absolutely delivered.

Wrapped 2025 now tells you where you are. We've never felt more seen.

This year's Wrapped introduces "Levels," a mysterious new classification system that assigns each user to a numbered designation based on their listening patterns. Spotify hasn't explained what the levels mean or how they're calculated, and we respect that. Not everything needs to be explained. You just need to trust the algorithm and let it place you exactly where you belong.

Most users reported being assigned to Level 0, which Wrapped describes as "the beginning" accompanied by an image of a pale yellow corridor stretching beyond the visible frame. Um, hello? The aesthetic. The fluorescent lighting. The vaguely unsettling institutional carpet. It's giving liminal, it's giving transitional, it's giving "you're where you were always going to be." We literally cannot stop staring at it.

But it gets better. Each level comes with its own "interval signal," a unique melodic tone that plays before your number is revealed. Ours was three ascending notes followed by what sounded like a door closing very far away, and it kind of slapped.

Some users reported receiving levels that don't appear on any official documentation. One user claims they were assigned to "Level -7," which Spotify's FAQ describes only as "below." Another received a designation that was just a string of coordinates pointing to somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. Incredible. Give the product team a raise immediately.

And can we talk about Listening Coordinates? This new feature displays your most-streamed tracks as a series of numbers that look like latitude and longitude but don't correspond to any known location. Ours pointed to a spot about 322 kilometers off the coast of Ireland, which is literally so random and perfect? We don't know what's there. The mystery is the point.

The Listening Archive feature is also chef's kiss. It generates AI summaries of your "significant listening days," and some of them are absolutely unhinged in the best way. One user's archive told them, "On March 3, you streamed a track that has since been removed from our catalog. There is no record of the artist. There is no record of the album. The track remains in your history." Like… yes? This is the kind of chaotic energy we need from our year-end data recaps. We have no memory of this track. We're at peace with this.

Another user's archive noted, "On September 9, a device registered to your account accessed a playlist that does not correspond to any known playlist ID. Duration: 4 hours. No tracks were logged. The session is marked as complete." Same. We've all had those nights where we dissociate into a playlist that technically doesn't exist. Spotify gets us.

A few users did report some… quirks. Several noted that their Wrapped Party invitation now lists their status as "Expected" rather than "Attending," which, okay, is a little ominous, but also kind of a serve? The algorithm knows we're going to show up. It believes in us. That's more support than we've gotten from some of our friends this year.

Others mentioned that their Wrapped concluded with a push notification containing no text. Just a five-digit number group, repeated twice, followed by silence. Which, firstly, is such a vibe. Second of all, has anyone decoded these yet? We're not saying it's a numbers station situation, but we're also not not saying that. Either way, we've screenshot it for our finsta.

The company's year-end blog post ended with, "Your Wrapped is ready. Please do not share your Level with users who have not yet received theirs. The architecture does not permit overlap. Thank you for remaining in range. We will be in contact."

We will be in contact. Literal chills. We've never felt more valued as a subscriber.

Wrapped 2025 is a 10/10, no notes. Can't wait to see what level we get assigned to next year, assuming we're still eligible to receive one. ■