Spotify Wrapped season is lastly right here, and with it brings many questions — like how is it bodily attainable that you simply listened to “As It Was” by Harry Types that many instances? Simply kidding. We get it. However the largest query nonetheless looms giant: When precisely does the Wrapped monitoring interval finish?

The web’s colloquial understanding was that Wrapped stopped monitoring on the finish of October, leaving November and December as protected months to take heed to your responsible pleasures. (I am taking a look at you, Glee soundtrack.) However Spotify busted that fable in mid-October of this yr in a reply to a since-deleted tweet from popular culture replace account, Pop Crave, about Wrapped ending on Halloween. Spotify replied, “The one factor that we finish on Halloween is consuming sweet corn. Stream (and snack) all by way of the yr and we’ll see you in Wrapped season.”

Spotify stays cagey about when precisely Wrapped stops monitoring. “The Wrapped customized expertise covers streaming for 2022, so starting in January and ending a number of weeks previous to the launch on November 30. We goal to go away the reduce off date as late as attainable to essentially create a really customized expertise for the tens of millions of listeners all over the world,” Babar Zafar, Spotify’s vice chairman of product improvement, defined at a press preview of Wrapped on Nov. 29.

Maybe we’ll by no means know the exact date Spotify Wrapped stops monitoring our listening habits, nevertheless it’s protected to say that the primary couple weeks of November are honest recreation. Condolences to those that have been misinformed and let their guard all the way down to take heed to one thing embarrassing. Hopefully, it did not have an effect on your Wrapped an excessive amount of.