Spending the day pleasantly reading angry tweets about all the genres we supposedly made up that we totally didn't make up. As of December 2020, that number stands at over 5,000 data-tracked genre distinctions for Spotify.

His algorithmically-generated website Every Noise at Once counted 1,264 genres of music in 2014. This is where engineer and data alchemist Glenn McDonald comes in. Data is at the cornerstone of Spotify’s business, and the sheer amount of it of course needs qualification. Some interesting and unknown genres apparently include “stomp and holler” and “tropical,” which has begged the question of what exactly is going on with the algorithm at Spotify headquarters. Although listeners may classify their music as simply rap, hip hop, pop, rnb, soul and so on, thousands of sub-genres are delineated in the Spotify library. Between personal Discover Weekly playlists created by Spotify and a seemingly never-ending slew of daily data-backed recommendations spawned by your listening habits, many users spend tens of thousands of hours on both the desktop and mobile versions of the application.

Wrapped is typically packed full of insights on the artists, songs, genres and podcasts that each unique user has listened to. In addition to the usual data-based presentation of users' most listened to songs and playlists, there was a new slide in the 2020 Wrapped format that let people know how many genres they had explored in the past 11 months. This led to some minor confusion on social media as music lovers began to wonder exactly how many genres of music there are, and also brought about renewed scrutiny towards the inner-workings of Spotify. It’s that time of year - Spotify Wrapped dropped its 2020 edition early this December.

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