Fifteen years, wrapped — UNPACKED.

Over fifteen years and 5,217 hours of listening, your music consumption divides 68% major-label and 32% independent — within a percentage point of the pool's own ~70/30 split. Under pro-rata, your subscription revenue and your listening direct dollars to nearly the same places.

You are, statistically, the listener the system was designed for. This is the highest pool overlap Unpacked has measured — higher than the country-heavy (88%), pop-punk (80%), and cosmic-jazz (84%) listeners we've profiled.

Daylists are snapshots of Spotify's model of one mood, one time of day. They reflect the afternoon, not the life. Your afternoons now lean into instrumental, indie, and neoclassical. Your mornings, workouts, drives, cooking, and sixteen years of history are where the other 63% of major-label content lives.

Sixteen years, one row per year. The drift, if there is one, is recent and small.

2015 was your peak year — 658 hours, with January 2015 as the single biggest month of your life on the platform at 133 hours. 2024 and 2025 were your biggest years since; 2025 exceeded 900 hours — roughly 2.5 hours a day, tracking your triathlon training window.

2026's partial data shows the most indie-leaning year you've ever had (46% indie) — the first hint of real divergence from the pool. Four months isn't a trend yet. Outside that recent wobble, your major-label share stays in a tight 60–80% band for most of the sixteen years. You've been essentially the same listener, on this dimension, since you were a teenager.

Your money, traced from subscription to artist.

At $0.29/hour, you paid less than a cup of coffee for each hour of music. But the split of where those dollars landed is where the number gets interesting.

Of that $305 pool-passthrough, who got what? At $0.004/stream effective rate, after label cut. Attributable directly to your plays.

Fifteen years of devotion — 2,783 plays, 105 hours of listening, the soundtrack to your adolescence — generated $2.23 for blink-182. One t-shirt at their merch table would have sent them 8× that. The pattern holds for every artist below.

Your top 20 received $16.34 combined for 11,400 plays and 478 hours. The remaining 15,823 artists split about $70 more between them. Nearly none of them individually received more than a few cents.

Five of your top ten are actively touring major-label artists — for whom concert tickets and merch at shows are the dominant lever. Two are film composers paid upfront by studios. Two are established indies on Bandcamp, where direct purchases dominate streaming by wide ratios. One is a catalog artist (Daft Punk, disbanded) where support is retrospective only.

Streaming is the baseline — what you do anyway, at 1.4¢ per play. Purchases are the channel where economic support actually happens. One Bandcamp Friday download sends an indie artist as much as 5,000 streams. One t-shirt at a show sends them 9,000 streams' worth. The leverage is disproportionate.

Side-by-side: your peak year and your most recent full year.

Two continuities stand out. blink-182 is on both lists — one of four artists you've played more than 1,000 times lifetime. And your major/indie proportion looks similar across both years. What changed is the specific vocabulary: Purity Ring and Solkyri (2015) out; Royel Otis and Maribou State (2025) in. Different artists, same economic position.

The artists who define your fifteen years, by total listening time.

Of your 2,000 lifetime unique artists, only 4 crossed 1,000 plays: blink-182, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Purity Ring. Another 140 crossed 100 plays.