{"id":21105,"date":"2025-12-05T15:37:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/i-spent-hours-listening-to-sabrina-carpenter-this-year-so-why-do-i-have-a-spotify-listening-age-of-86\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T15:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:37:32","slug":"i-spent-hours-listening-to-sabrina-carpenter-this-year-so-why-do-i-have-a-spotify-listening-age-of-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/i-spent-hours-listening-to-sabrina-carpenter-this-year-so-why-do-i-have-a-spotify-listening-age-of-86\/","title":{"rendered":"I spent hours listening to Sabrina Carpenter this year. So why do I have a Spotify \u2018listening age\u2019 of 86?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many users of the app were shocked, this week, by this addition to the Spotify Wrapped roundup \u2013 especially twentysomethings who were judged to be 100<\/p>\n

\u201cAge is just a number. So don\u2019t take this personally.\u201d Those words were the first inkling I had that I was about to receive some very bad news.<\/p>\n

I woke up on Wednesday with a mild hangover after celebrating my 44th birthday. Unfortunately for me, this was the day Spotify released \u201cSpotify Wrapped\u201d, its analysis of (in my case) the 4,863 minutes I had spent listening to music on its platform over the past year. And this year, for the first time, they are calculating the \u201clistening age\u201d of all their users.<\/p>\n

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\nMany users of the app were shocked, this week, by this addition to the Spotify Wrapped roundup \u2013 especially twentysomethings who were judged to be 100
\n\u201cAge is just a number. So don\u2019t take this personally.\u201d Those words were the first inkling I had that I was about to receive some very bad news.
\nI woke up on Wednesday with a mild hangover after celebrating my 44th birthday. Unfortunately for me, this was the day Spotify released \u201cSpotify Wrapped\u201d, its analysis of (in my case) the 4,863 minutes I had spent listening to music on its platform over the past year. And this year, for the first time, they are calculating the \u201clistening age\u201d of all their users. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many users of the app were shocked, this week, by this addition to the Spotify Wrapped roundup \u2013 especially twentysomethings who were judged to be 100 \u201cAge is just a number. So don\u2019t take this personally.\u201d Those words were the first inkling I had that I was about to receive some very bad news. I …<\/p>\n

I spent hours listening to Sabrina Carpenter this year. So why do I have a Spotify \u2018listening age\u2019 of 86?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}