YouTube is rolling out its 2025 recap listings for YouTube Music subscribers, which, very similar to Spotify’s widespread “Wrapped” yearly summaries, gives an summary of what you listened to within the app.
However this time round YouTube has added an additional particular factor.
That’s proper, YouTube has added an AI question immediate to this 12 months’s overview, so you may ask questions on your music and podcast listening habits all year long.
As you may see in these screenshots (posted by 9 to five Google), YouTube Music customers can now entry an summary of the music they listened to in 2025, with a Tales-like abstract of various development notes.
And as you may see beneath the primary itemizing (within the first picture above), there’s additionally an AI question choice, so you may ask questions like “What animal matches my music style?” in-stream.
Sure, that is an precise choice, as proven within the above pattern queries, although you can too pose any conversational query about your listening habits.
Which looks as if an pointless use of AI, which in all probability gained’t add a heap to this abstract. However should you needed the system to “Hype my listening utilizing Gen Z slang,” you may. If you’d like.
It feels a bit of like overkill, like “we are able to, so we did,” with none actual consideration of worth right here, exterior of it simply being one other AI characteristic. As a result of AI is the factor of the second, and since everyone seems to be hyped about AI, however I think that chucking AI into each single factor will finally flip individuals away from these choices, particularly with such weak instance prompts.
However perhaps I’m simply previous, and perhaps this may show to be a worthwhile addition for youthful audiences, giving them new methods to interact with their YouTube Music annual listings.
YouTube’s recap additionally lists your “musical bestie,” being the artist you listened to most all year long (which features a calendar view that exhibits what days you listened to them on), whereas there’s additionally a “Musical Passport” factor, which exhibits the place you had been tuning in.
It is an attention-grabbing overview of your 12 months in music and podcast engagement, which might additionally spotlight extra about your individual behaviors and habits than you notice.
YouTube’s 2025 music recap is rolling out now, with YouTube Music subscribers being prompted to take a look at the recap in-stream, whereas you can too entry it by tapping in your profile avatar.
