Apple has rolled out Apple Music Replay 2025, marking what feels like the most complete and coherent version of its annual listening recap so far. After years of trailing Spotify Wrapped in presentation and detail, Replay finally delivers a polished look at how subscribers spent their year in music — not just with a highlight reel, but with month-by-month breakdowns, year-over-year comparisons, and a clearer sense of how listening habits evolve over time.
The 2025 edition builds on last year’s overhaul, which introduced monthly recaps and visual snapshots of top songs, artists and albums. Now that the full Replay experience is live, users can browse a more layered summary of their activity through the end of November, with Apple planning to update the data again once the year officially closes. The recap organizes top artists, songs, albums, playlists, stations and genres into a straightforward narrative, and adds monthly charts that help show shifts in taste across different parts of the year.
Replay also lets users compare their 2025 listening habits with 2024. Instead of simply naming this year’s top artist or song, Apple highlights how those choices differ from the previous year — a small, but useful feature that helps contextualize favorite tracks and albums rather than listing them in isolation.
Finding Replay is much easier than it used to be. For years, the main experience lived only on the web, which made it feel like an afterthought. Now it appears directly in the Apple Music app. Users can open the Home tab, scroll to Top Picks for You or reach the bottom of the page to launch their Replay. From there, they can watch a highlight reel or skip straight to the detailed stats. As usual, Replay tracks total minutes listened across categories and even shows whether a user has landed in an artist’s top 100, 500 or 1,000 listeners — a metric that appeals to fans looking for something measurable beyond playlists and genres.
With Apple continuing to update the numbers through December, Replay will shift slightly in the final stretch of the year. The expanded recap format — and Apple finally placing Replay inside the app where most people actually listen — suggests the company is taking the feature more seriously as part of the service rather than a forced answer to a competitor’s viral campaign.
