Lagos, Nigeria, and NAIROBI, Kenya, [DATE]: Spotify is celebrating 20
years of sound, discovery and culture with the launch of Spotify 20:
Your Party of the Year(s), a new mobile-only in-app experience that
gives listeners a personalised look back at their music history on
Spotify.
Now available to eligible users in Nigeria and Kenya, Spotify 20 turns
each listener’s journey into a nostalgia-filled celebration, revealing
the songs, artists and milestones that have defined their time on the
platform.
Through the experience, listeners can discover personalised insights
including:
- Their first day on Spotify
- The total number of unique songs they have listened to
- Their first streamed song
- Their all-time most-streamed artist
- Their All-Time Top Songs playlist, featuring their top 120 tracks,
complete with play counts
Each data story comes with a share card at the end of the experience, making it easy for fans to save their results, send them to friends, or share them across social platforms.
For listeners in Nigeria and Kenya, Spotify 20 offers a new way to
revisit the songs that have soundtracked everyday moments, major
milestones and cultural shifts.
“Spotify has always been about making listening personal. With Spotify
20, we’re giving fans in Nigeria and Kenya a chance to look back at
the artists, songs and moments that have shaped their journey with us.
It’s a celebration of discovery, nostalgia and the communities that
form around music,” says Jocelyne Muhutu-Remy, Managing Director for
Spotify in Africa.
Spotify 20 is part of the global celebration of Spotify’s 20th
anniversary, which also spotlights the platform’s all-time
most-streamed content. Globally, the top three most-streamed artists of
all time are Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny and Drake. Bad Bunny’s Un Verano
Sin Ti is the most-streamed album, while The Weeknd’s “Blinding
Lights” is the most-streamed song, followed by Ed Sheeran’s “Shape
of You”. The most-streamed podcast globally is The Joe Rogan
Experience, and the most-streamed audiobook among Premium subscribers is
Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses.
As part of the wider Spotify 20 celebration, Spotify’s editorial team
has also curated a selection of global playlists spotlighting defining
eras, movements and cultural shifts from the past two decades. These
playlists are available in the Spotify 20 hub.To access Spotify 20: Your
Party of the Year(s), users can open the Spotify mobile app and search
“Spotify 20” or “Party of the Year(s)”, or visit spotify.com/20
[1] on mobile.
