• Neato@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Because wrapped summarizes your calendar year. It happens is early December and ignores a whole month.

    The game awards does this too which creates a lame duck season. But they at least are trying to sell games for Christmas.

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      9 months ago

      December can skew the wrap though. People will listen to more holiday music in December, they might use their spotify for Xmas parties, while wrapping presents, or just listen to it because 'tis the season. Suddenly Mariah Carey is contending for a top 10 artist and holiday music could be one of your top genres.

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        9 months ago

        So they just ignore December altogether, not even rolling it into the next year?

        So it isn’t really about the year, just 11 months.

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          9 months ago

          That’s pretty much the year. Like they will have to cut off the data collection at some point. Because, well, when the wrapped Playlist comes out, you’re probably going to listen to that Playlist a few times, to recap your year, which would drive more data for those songs.

          I dunno, just seems like a silly thing to worry about. “Oh my gosh they only captured 11 months of my listening! How will I know that I went from Taylor Swift non-stop for 11 months and then nothing but Mayhem for all of December!!” It’s a personal record of what you listened to throughout the year, and its kind of fun to see, but it has no actual bearing on your music taste. You still like what you like.

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      9 months ago

      Wait, the Game Awards goes purely by the calendar year? A game that releases after the show at the very end of 2023 wouldn’t be eligible to appear in 2024’s show?

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        9 months ago

        I was wrong. If they are released after mid November, they fall to the following year.

        Though the farther your release is from the award show the less buzz it might get due to people forgetting. Especially in a jam packed year and some of the voting done by the masses.