#year-in-review

#year-in-review

Amazon Music has a new Spotify Wrapped knockoff this year called " 2025 Delivered," which offers a summary of users' listening stats, such as top artists, songs, and even podcasts. Notably, the platform also takes advantage of Amazon's virtual assistant, Alexa, by giving users a special message from their favorite artist. The feature can be found on the app by tapping on the Library tab.

Edvard Munch helps us cope with the good, the bad, and the ugly. (all edits Shari Flores/ Hyperallergic) It's December, the season of Spotify Wrapped and Apple Music Replay. Each year, the branded year-in-review graphics compile users' annual listening history and trends, converting them into shareable statistics that evoke the feeling of personality quiz results. We don't have the ability to track every reader's click history or favored content at Hyperallergic,

There are two main components of your Discord Checkpoint 2025. The first is a recap of your usage and interactions on the platform. Here's some of what your Discord Checkpoint 2025 will show you: How many messages you sent How many minutes in voice chat you spent How many emojis you posted What other Discord users you spent the most time with The servers you used the most

Beyond that, the feature focuses on providing an annual overview of activity on Wikipedia as a whole, but in a pretty graphical format, not dissimilar to Spotify's Wrapped. A list of the most-read English language articles is topped by Charlie Kirk and "deaths in 2025," proving that humans are incurably morbid. Wikipedia also says that editors made over 66 million changes across the site this year.

Google Photos users can now access their year-end Recap, the photo-hosting site's own version of something akin to Spotify Wrapped. Like other annual reviews, the Google Photos Recap lets you look back on your past year in photos, offering a combination of memorable highlights enhanced with graphics and other effects, plus photo stats and more. U.S. users will also gain access to a new feature powered by Google's AI, Gemini, which will showcase your hobbies and other top highlights, the company says.

December invites us to pause and look back at the moments that defined architecture and cities in 2025. Reflection is not only an act of memory, but of foresight - a way to understand where we've been in order to imagine where we might go next. From shifting cultural narratives to material and technological breakthroughs, this past year underscored the importance of experimentation and adaptation across the built environment.