![]() That’s 27 percent of all minutes in a year, spent listening to … something on Spotify. Within minutes, somebody sent me a screenshot of their Wrapped page saying they’d streamed 143,432 minutes in 2021. My top artist is a looping-ambient-guitar player named Sean Angus Watson-he’s great.) 1 song was a cover of Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” by Florence and the Machine. ![]() I listened to Spotify for 42,140 minutes. If I’m going to air other people’s dirty laundry, I’ll air my own. Ok so who wins for most minutes listened on spotify this year? i wanna see some upsetting numbers- Charlie Warzel December 1, 2021 On Wednesday, when Spotify started sending out Wrapped recaps to users, I asked my Twitter followers to help me find the elite Spotify streamers: The metric I’m most interested in is “total minutes” spent streaming on the service. Still, the whole Wrapped cycle that plays out every December is fascinating, because you have large swaths of people gladly posting interesting data about how they use the internet. It’s definitely much more socially acceptable to have music on all day in the background than it is to be constantly scrolling Facebook. Perhaps that’s because music is generally more nourishing than an autoplay feed of Jordan Peterson videos and highlights from old NBA games. Most tech platforms intentionally shy away from showing users the amount of time they've spent watching, clicking, and scrolling. Nobody cares what songs you listened to most, or whether you prefer vaporwave over acid jazz, but it seems like everyone cares at least a little bit about sharing their listening habits. It’s called Spotify Wrapped, and it is a sneaky marketing campaign that manages to take the company’s constant, granular tracking and turn it into a pop-culture moment (see, privacy invasion can be fun!). Meanwhile, we’re extending the free trial period for this newsletter a few more days!Įvery December, Spotify sends each of its 365 million users a recap of their year on the platform. If you’re having problems, email or reply to this email and we’ll get it sorted. Some of you who signed up for Galaxy Brain when it was on Substack might have noticed that there’ve been a few logistical quirks to claiming your free one-year subscriptions to The Atlantic.If you pre-order more than one I will MAIL YOU A SIGNED PHOTO OF OUR DOGS (signed by the dogs) lol idk - Charlie Warzel December 2, 2021 If you pre-order & DM me some proof I will DM you a SPECIAL THANK YOU from my dogs (a nice picture of my dogs looking cute). (Alternatively, it’s also really important to call your local library and request they order it!) If you need additional motivation, I got you:ĮXCITED FOR TUESDAY. So if you want to buy the book, it’d be so incredibly helpful if you ordered it now. They have a massive influence on our ability to write future books (and also write them about the things we actually want to write about). ![]() As I’m sure you’ve heard … preorders really, really, really matter.If you'd like a preview, we have an excerpt up today in this very magazine. But as with so much of our writing and reporting, it is ultimately about figuring out how to decenter work moving forward. The book is filled with the history of work and how to make it better, which includes how to actually figure out what hybrid work looks like. The best way to buy is, of course, through your local bookstore. This week a lifelong dream comes true for me … my book with Anne Helen Petersen (my first book!) is coming out! Out of Office: The Big Problem and Big Promise of Working From Home.We're still figuring things out in our new home so let me know what you think: quick things: If you like what you see, consider forwarding it to a friend or two. You can read what this is all about here. Welcome to Galaxy Brain - a newsletter from Charlie Warzel about technology and culture and big ideas.
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