Does Apple Music Have a Wrapped? Meet Apple Music Replay

Apple's answer to Wrapped is not a once-a-year reveal. Replay starts early in the year, keeps updating, and saves the big recap for the end.

Updated October 2026

What is Apple Music Replay?

Apple Music Replay is Apple Music's personalised listening summary. According to Apple Support, as of October 2026 it has three parts:

• A Replay playlist of your most-played songs of the current year, which keeps updating through the year.
• Monthly insights with your top songs, artists and albums for each month, ranked by play count and time spent listening, plus milestones.
• A year-end recap with your top songs, artists, albums, genres, playlists and stations, your play counts and totals, the time you spent listening, and a highlight reel.

Is it free?

It costs nothing extra, but it needs an active Apple Music subscription. Listening through other apps, radio or a lapsed subscription does not feed it. If you cancel, as how to cancel Apple Music explains, you keep access only until the end of the period you paid for.

How do you see your Apple Music Replay?

Apple Support gives two routes:

1. In the Music app, open the Home tab and scroll down to the section called Replay: Your Top Music. Tap through for the playlist, the monthly insights and, late in the year, the full recap.

2. On the web, go to replay.music.apple.com and sign in with the same Apple Account you use for your Apple Music subscription.

If Replay is missing or nearly empty, check the setting Apple names in its support article: Use Listening History must be turned on for all of your devices. On an iPhone it sits in the Music section of Settings. A device with it switched off still plays music normally; it just does not report those plays to Replay. You also need enough listening for Apple to build a recap, so a brand-new subscription may show nothing for a while.

When does Apple Music Replay come out?

In two stages, and that is the source of most confusion.

The running Replay for a new year appears early in that year. Replay 2026 went live on February 3, 2026, with January's listening already counted.

The full year-end recap arrives near the end of the year. Apple released the 2025 recap on December 2, 2025, the same day Amazon Music released its own, and the 2024 recap in early December 2024. Apple does not announce the date in advance, so treat late November to early December as the window rather than a fixed day.

Neither stage needs you to do anything. Replay builds itself from your listening, and the recap shows up in the same place in the app when it is ready.

Is Replay available all year?

Yes, which is the biggest practical difference from Wrapped. The Replay playlist and the monthly insights are there from early in the year onward, so you can check your top songs in April or July and watch them change.

The year-end recap is the only part with a release date. Once it is out, it covers the year so far; listening in the last weeks of December may not be reflected in it, as early December releases are built before the year is over.

It is worth adding each year's Replay playlist to your library once the recap is out. A saved playlist from every year becomes a simple record of how your taste moved over time.

How does Replay count plays?

Apple Support says monthly rankings are based on play count and time spent listening. So two things matter: how many times you played a song, and how long you listened.

That has practical effects:

• Only Apple Music listening with listening history switched on is counted. Plays on a device with Use Listening History off are left out. If you'd rather your history reflect only what you chose, how to stop Apple Music from automatically playing covers AutoPlay and AutoMix.
• Listening outside Apple Music, such as another streaming app or the radio, never reaches Replay.
• Long tracks and albums you leave running add listening time even if their play count is modest, which is why total minutes and top-song rankings do not always tell the same story.

Replay is not the artist's play count

Your Replay is a personal summary. The play counts artists see and are paid on come from a separate system with its own rules about what qualifies as a play, which what Apple Music pays per stream covers.

How is Replay different from Spotify Wrapped?

Both summarise a year of listening, but they are built for different moments:

• Timing: Wrapped appears once, late in the year. Replay runs all year and adds a year-end recap on top.
• Window: Wrapped is built from a listening window that closes before the end of the year. Replay's running playlist keeps updating weekly through the year.
• Access: Wrapped is available to free and paid Spotify users. Replay needs an Apple Music subscription and listening history turned on.
• Format: Wrapped is a story-style campaign in the app. Replay is a playlist plus insights pages, with a highlight reel at year end.

If you use both

Your recaps will only ever reflect the listening done in each app. When Spotify Wrapped comes out covers Spotify's side, and how to transfer a Spotify playlist to Apple Music explains what moves between the two when you switch.

Can artists see Replay data?

Artists get their own version. Apple Music for Artists offers year-end Replay insights that summarise a release year and let artists share their milestones with fans. For 2025, Apple said those insights would be updated weekly until the end of the year and could be viewed until January 12, 2026.

What artists do not see is any individual listener's Replay. They see their own aggregate figures, such as plays and listeners, in Apple Music for Artists, not who had them in their top songs.

For an independent artist, the play count on a release is the public sign of traction, and buying Apple Music plays adds to the count on one track. It does not put the song in anyone's personal Replay, and it does not influence playlist editors. Distributors usually deliver the same release to Spotify, and every Spotify service is listed on the Spotify page.

Questions people ask about Apple Music Replay