YouTube Music is a leading music streaming platform often bundled with YouTube Premium. Like Spotify, it works across platforms and devices, including smartphones, tablets, computers, andChromebooks. In addition, the service provides a seasonal and yearly Recap of your top songs and artists, similar toSpotify Wrapped.
Each Recap captures your yearly preferences, including songs and artists you’ve discovered throughout a season. For nostalgia’s sake, it’s fun to rediscover your favorite songs of a past season or year. Our guide shows you how to view and access your YouTube Music Recap.
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What are YouTube Music Recaps
YouTube Music Recaps are the top songs and artists you listen to during a season and a year. Recaps are specific to your YouTube Music profile and account. They are based on your music listening history on both YouTube Music and YouTube. As Recaps are based on the music you listen to, a few prerequisites are needed for the feature to work properly.
First, you shouldn’t delete your YouTube Music and YouTube watch history, either manually or automatically. Similarly, you need to listen to a sufficient amount of music for Recaps to be compiled, which is at least four hours each season. Lastly, the feature may not work if you mostly listen to music made for kids.
Accessing your YouTube Music Recap
Now that you know what Recaps are, let’s see how you’re able to access them. There are two main ways to access your Recaps. The first is tapping the Recap shortcut on your home page; you will see this option once an annual Recap is released. The second is to go through the Your Recap page from the main menu. From there, you can review your saved Recap playlists from this year and previous years.
You can also access your YouTube Music Recap from the YouTube app, using a computer or your mobile phone, by searching for Recap and clicking your playlist. Alternatively, you can also navigate directly toyt.be/MusicRecap.
Sharing your YouTube Music Recap
Sharing your Recaps is easy, and it’s a fun way to highlight your top songs from the past season. you may either share your Recap stories as a summary of your favorite songs, albums, and genres, which is useful on social media or when messaging someone, or share the full playlist of the season’s top 50 songs.
Sharing your YouTube Music Recap stories and photo cards
YouTube Music lets you download stories as images or share them directly. Here’s how to do it:
If you want to share several stories or photo cards, it’s easier to download them first and then send them all together. To do that, tap theDownload buttonin the lower-left corner instead of the Share button. It saves the images to your phone’s photo gallery, and you’re able to post or send them using your favorite apps.
Sharing your YouTube Music Recap playlists
If you’re not ashamed of the songs you’ve listened to and want to send a full list of your top 50 songs during the season with your friends, you can also do that. Here’s how:
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Accessing your YouTube Music history
While Recaps are a fun feature, they imply having to wait until the end of a season to review your top 50 songs. However, you may want to access your YouTube Music history to review the songs you played last or the day before. There’s a quick and easy way to do that without waiting an entire season!
Relive your musical memories
Thanks to Recaps, YouTube Music brings some fun by summarizing your top songs for each season and year, helping you rediscover your favorites. To revisit fond memories, YouTube Music can link your musical highlights to pictures you saved in Google Photos. However, you may not want your private data saved on the cloud, especially if it’s linked to your photos. As with any other Google product, you can maintain control over your data and decide whether you want to delete it, review it, or set it to automatically delete after a while. The choice is yours and can be adjusted usingGoogle’s My Activitydashboard.
