The conceit for this playlist spawned from my dissatisfaction with the latest iteration of Spotify Wrapped. Broadly, I don’t consider it to be an accurate reflection of my overall music taste - I mean, 5 songs/artists is such a small number compared to the actual amount of music that I listen to on at least a semi-regular basis. This year in particular, my music taste has opened up significantly with the help of one of my friends (you know who you are <3). Thus, I decided to take my top 21 artists from the last 12 months according to www.statsforspotify.com and pick one song by each of them. The playlist is in reverse order (i.e. #21 first, #1 last). If 21 seems like an arbitrary number, it’s actually slightly less so than the original number, which was 20; I saw Father John Misty at #21 and ultimately decided I needed to include him.

I am making this playlist on December 7/8, 2024. My song choices are influenced by the contexts I’m working within at this specific moment in time.