What Next TBD: Spotify Unwrapped

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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Is Spotify’s 2023—ending with layoffs and cancelling critically acclaimed original podcasts—a sign of trouble at the streaming giant, or an adjustment to expectations that’s setting them up for a brighter future? Guest: Ashley Carman, Bloomberg reporter who covers Spotfiy If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on
0:28.9	Prime Video.
0:37.2	If you have thought at all about Spotify in the last week, you probably thought about your Spotify
0:42.5	RAPT. If you don't know what that is, wrapped is the summary, sometimes pretty embarrassing,
0:48.4	of what you listen to the most this year. And even though Ashley Carman covers Spotify as part of her beat at Bloomberg, she also
0:56.8	has a 2023 wrapped.
0:59.2	Oh gosh, my Spotify wrapped is interesting because it has been the same number one artist for
1:06.6	like, I swear, five years or something.
1:10.3	It's Lana Del Rey, always.
1:12.2	Summer time, and the living's easy.
1:17.4	Rally's on a microphone where I send she...
1:20.4	I play her on flights, oftentimes, and I listen to her full albums.
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