How To Check Your YouTube Music Recap 2025

YouTube Music has started rolling out its 2025 Recap, and this year it isn’t just about seeing your top songs. The update adds interactive AI explanations powered by Gemini, along with new visual ways to revisit your listening habits.

If you’re wondering where to find it and what’s actually new, here’s a simple walkthrough.

Step 1: Check if your Recap is live

The rollout is gradual, so not everyone will see it at the same time.

Open the YouTube Music app on your phone, tap your profile icon in the top corner, and look for an option called “Your Recap.” Under the 2025 section, you should see a lime-green “Get Your Recap” button. Tap it to start.

If nothing shows up yet, it just means your account hasn’t been enabled in this phase. Keep checking over the next few days as the rollout continues.

Step 2: Navigate the Recap interface

Once it opens, the Recap appears in a story-style format. You can swipe through different screens using the carousel, similar to how year-end summaries usually work on streaming apps.

You’ll see a mix of familiar and new sections, all laid out in a more visual, swipe-friendly way.

Step 3: View your core listening stats

The first part of the Recap focuses on your basic listening patterns for the year, including:

Your most-played song
Your top five tracks
Your top artist, labelled as your “musical bestie”
How long you listened throughout the year and your longest streak

There’s also a personalised playlist made up of your most-played songs, which you can save directly to your library if you want to revisit it later.

Step 4: Explore deeper insights and trends

Beyond the basics, YouTube Music now shows more detailed breakdowns of your habits.

You’ll find a calendar-style view that highlights when you listened to specific artists, giving a day-by-day snapshot of your patterns. There’s also a “musical passport” section that shows where your favourite artists come from, offering a geographical view of your taste.

Podcasts, albums and genres also get their own dedicated summaries toward the end.

Step 5: Use Gemini to ask about your music taste

The standout addition this year is the new AI chat feature powered by Gemini, as spotted by 9to5Google. You’ll see prompts like “Ask anything about your 2025 listening experience.”

This lets you type in questions such as:

How did my listening change this year?
Describe my music taste as a weather report
Was my year more chill or hype?

Gemini then generates personalised responses that can be shared as visual cards on social platforms. It’s less about raw data and more about storytelling around your habits.

Step 6: Try the Google Photos integration

Another new feature pairs your top songs with your personal photos from Google Photos to create musical photo cards. These can be shared directly to social media, turning your Recap into something that feels more like a memory highlight than a simple chart.

Why YouTube Music rolled it out early

YouTube Music’s 2025 Recap is arriving ahead of Spotify Wrapped, which usually drops in early December. That timing gives YouTube Music an early moment in the spotlight, before social feeds get flooded with Wrapped screenshots.

Year-end recaps have become a key engagement tool for streaming platforms. They encourage users to reshare, revisit old favourites and spend more time inside the app. With Gemini now layered into the experience, YouTube Music is clearly testing how AI can make personal data feel more interactive.