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And stick around to hear how AI can future proof your business. If you have thought at all about Spotify in the last week, you probably thought about your

Spotify wrapped. If you don't know what that is, wrapped is the summary, sometimes pretty embarrassing, of what you

listen to the most this year.

And even though Ashley Carmen covers Spotify as part of her beat at Bloomberg.

She also has a 2023 wrapped.

Oh gosh, my Spotify wrapped is interesting

because it has been the same number one artist for like I swear five years or something

it's Lana Del Rey always

I play her on flights oftentimes and I listen to her full albums

I play her on flights oftentimes and I listen to her full albums so I end up just racking up the hours of Lana Del Rey songs and

so all of her songs into being in my rap I wish it was more interesting I really do. My top artist of the year is somehow Taylor Swift.

Because the players are going to play play play play play

play play in the heat is going to hate hate hate Despite the fact that I can probably name three of her songs, my preschooler loves to dance to shake it off so Spotify thinks I'm a swiftie.

I think this is the way civilians think about Spotify if they think about Spotify, right?

Like, oh, it's December, let me talk about my Spotify wrapped.

Is that how normal people think about it?

Yeah, I think they think about Spotify as a place where they can access their favorite music.

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