Spotify Wrapped results have come out and the iconic Dionne Warwick was at the top of mine. The reason: Dionne's concert One Last Time in Manila last January. After that show, I build a playlist of her music that I listened to frequently. As a result, my top Spotify artist in 2025 is Dionne Warwick. I am in the top 0.04% of people who listened the most to her globally. Wow!
My top song: Alfie by Dionne Warwick. She also occupied the top 2 spots of my top 5 songs for 2025, with Promises, Promises being ranked #2.
My other top artists include - in order - Maki, Florence and the Machine, Chappell Roan, and Roland Dyens. This is the second year in a row that Maki makes my top 5. Florence and the Machine is the only artist who has consistently been in my top 5 since I started listening to music on Spotify. Roland Dyens is a French classical guitarist and composer and he rounded out my top 5 because I added his entire Suite Polymorphe (movements I through VIII) after my nephew performed some of these movements with his guitar group during the Kaliwa't Kanang Kalabitan: Guitar Ensemble Festival last August. I must have listened to Roland Dyens a whole lot in the last three months since he leapfrogged several other artists to make it to my top 5.
My top artists list shows that I am quite eclectic when it comes to music, listening to different genres from different generations. March 11 was apparently my most diverse day where I listened to 18 genres in 132 minutes. That's a little more than 7 minutes per genre. When you think that the average song runs for about 4 minutes, 7 minutes per genre would indicate that I listened to an average of a little less than two songs per genre that night. Wow!
Another interesting day was October 16. While I started listening to trance music, a genre I love to this day, I ended up listening to mostly classical music that day, which also turned out to be my biggest music day of the year. (I am a bit incensed that Spotify identified Moonlight Sonata as being Rousseau's when it is actually from Beethoven!)
Not surprisingly, my listening age is 77 hahaha. Spotify says that I was into music from the early 60s and that I'm an old soul.
Finally, and this is not a surprise, it seems I listen to music that gives me and other listeners good vibes.
I always look forward to my Spotify Wrapped. My results have varied from year to year but one thing has remained: the diversity of the music I listen to. It will be interesting to see if any of my top songs or artists in 2025 will make it to my top lists in 2026.
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