Culture Compass

New Year

How the New Year sounds on Spotify.

Understand the moment

The New Year represents a time to reflect, reset, and sweat it out. Spotify listeners press play on what drives them. And they swap the celebratory vibe for a calmer mood.

So while workout playlist streams increase over January, listeners are tuned into chill and focus streams, too. As fans strike the balance between work hard and...restore hard? You get it.

Music for motivation and meditation

  • 25%

    Feel the burn

    +25% increase in workout playlist streams in January 2020 vs December 2019
  • 10%

    Build up those reps

    +10% increase in workout playlist streams week over week in January

  • 25%

    Take a breather

    +25% increase in chill playlist streams in January

  • 40%

    Get in the zone

    +40% increase in focus playlist streams in January*

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*Source: Spotify First-Party Data, Global, 2020.

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