YouTube Music’s 2025 Recap lands with new "Ask about your listening" chat feature

Highlights

• 2025 Recap begins rolling out ahead of December
  
• New chat tool lets listeners ask questions about their year in music
  
• Recap covers top songs, artists, albums, genres, and podcasts
  
• Shareable graphics return across the experience
  

YouTube Music opens its 2025 Recap early

YouTube Music starts releasing its 2025 Recap in late November, continuing its pattern of arriving before the year actually ends. The rollout follows previous years, which also bypass December and lean on data collected through autumn.

Listeners can check for the Recap by tapping the profile icon on Android or iOS and selecting “Your Recap.” The experience begins with a story-style overview, while a carousel lets users skip directly to specific sections.

What the 2025 Recap shows

The Recap opens with total minutes listened and the listener’s “longest streak.” It then highlights the most-played track and a top-five list. A dedicated playlist is available, including listening from September through November 2025.

The “musical bestie” section names the top artist of the year and displays a calendar showing when that artist is played most. The “Musical Passport” feature returns with a tally of how many locations or countries the listener hears artists from.

Further sections cover top albums, podcasts, genres, and a final card that combines all the highlights into a single shareable graphic.

New chat tool adds an interactive twist

The biggest update in 2025 is the “Ask about your listening” feature. It builds on YouTube Music’s existing “Ask Music” tool and lets users explore their listening habits by typing questions into a chat interface.

Prompts suggested within the feature include:

• How did my listening change over the year?
  
• Was my music more relaxed or more upbeat?
  
• Describe my listening as a weather report
  
• Did I explore more or repeat more?
  
• What were my top electronic dance tracks?
  
• What animal matches my taste?
  

The chat draws from a user’s YouTube history to produce personalized answers, each delivered as a graphic that can be saved or shared.

A more playful look at personal trends

While the core Recap stays familiar, the new chat function aims to make the experience feel more conversational and customizable. Instead of just presenting stats, YouTube Music now lets listeners shape their own narrative about how their tastes shift over the year, and turn those insights into shareable cards.