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Spotify Wrapped has a new feature that tells you which city shares your taste in music

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Spotify's 2023 wrapped includes a new feature called "sound towns." Kylie Kirschner/Insider
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Spotify Wrapped is back again in 2023, and the fan-favorite yearly round up comes with some new updates.

This year's Wrapped comes with the usual stats, like your top five songs, top five artists, top listened-to genres, and the total number of minutes you've spent listening to Spotify during the year — but it also has a new "Sound Town" feature, a "me in 2023" feature, and some new data about your top five artists.

The Sound Town feature matches you to a city in the world that has the most similar music taste to yours this past year. On the third slide of your Spotify Wrapped, Spotify shows you a city it's pinpointed on the map, giving three artists that both you and the average listener in that city like listening to.

"This year, your listening took you places and one place listened just like you," the slide reads before revealing your match.

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Spotify Wrapped this year features a "Sound Town" feature.  Kylie Kirschner

Spotify users shared their Sound Towns on X, and they ranged from Seoul, South Korea, to Nijmegen in the Netherlands — which the user said was their actual hometown.

Similar to the "music personality" feature on last year's Spotify Wrapped, the "me in 2023" feature matches you with one of 12 characters that Spotify's come up with based on your listening habits — a "Hypnotist," for example, likes to play all the way through, while a "Hunter" skips tracks more than other listeners.

Spotify Wrapped 2023
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And if your music taste has changed over the course of the year and you can't fathom about how some of those artists made it onto your year-end roundup? Well, now you can also see which months you spent the most time listening to each of your top five artists — maybe that one album you were briefly obsessed with dropped back in January, or a February breakup put Taylor Swift in your top five. Spotify's data tells it all.

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Kylie was a reporting fellow at Business Insider, where she covered business news and tech. She received her MA in Journalism and International Relations from NYU, reporting on how rural indigenous communities in Borneo are being impacted by climate change and environmental degradation for her Master's thesis. She has previously worked at Forbes, Acuris, and Payload. Outside of the business news world, she's interested in climate, education, and food.Adobe is selling AI-generated images of the Israel-Hamas war, and some websites are using them without marking that they're fakeI visited the viral tinned fish store in NYC's Times Square that sells $19.60 cans of tuna and $44 hand-deboned sardines with edible gold flakesApple's new screen-distance feature taught me I was holding my iPhone wrongThis e-bike for 4-year-olds can do 15 miles an hour, costs $1,300 – and sold out in a monthAs-Told-To: I work as a fire lookout, living in a remote cabin with no plumbing or electricity. Here's why I want to be here as long as there are humans doing this job.