Lifestyle

Move Over, MBTI: Spotify Wrapped is 2022’s latest personality test craze

Published

December 9, 2022

At this point, the only excuse someone can have about not having seen their Spotify Wrapped is if they’ve been living under a rock. The yearly ‘personality reveal’ through music has taken over everyone’s social media. Along with this, they have also unveiled the top artists and songs on the streaming platform.

Wrapped has already revealed how 456 million Spotify users listened to the audio in their own, unique way this year. If you have been living under a rock, here’s a link on how you can also access your own, 2022 Wrapped experience on your updated Spotify app on your Apple or Android device.

A fun, new feature is how Spotify has truly leveraged on how music can reveal one’s personality. Through improved, data-driven stories and editorially-curated playlists, users get to share more about themselves. This, by uploading their ready-made Wrapped results on Instagram. Your Listening Personality is another new feature. It tells you about the music you listen to and what that says about your music taste. Move over, MBTI. Listeners can now learn which of 16 different Spotify-created Listening Personality types they are, based on their 2022 listening trends.

Audio Day, meanwhile, is an interactive story giving you a peek into how your music taste evolves throughout the day. From sunrise ’til your bedtime, it gives you a look at how you seize the day and embrace the evenings.

Spotify top of the charts

Outranking global hits, NOBITA’s Ikaw Lang is the most streamed track in the Philippines. This is followed by Arthur Nery’s Pagsamo (#2), Adie’s Paraluman (#3), Zack Tabudlo’s Pano (#4) and Arthur Nery’s Isa lang (#5). OPM took center stage this year, with Filipino love songs beating international favorites like Troye Sivan’s Angel Baby (#6) and Justin Bieber’s Ghost (#11).

At a recent event hosted by Spotify Philippines to celebrate the return of Wrapped, they had Arthur Nery perform a couple of his hits. Nery mentioned how Spotify was truly instrumental in his success as an artist.

Five Filipino artists and groups clinched half of the top 10 spots this year. Zack Tabudlo, who secured the #3 spot, emerged as this year’s Top Local Artist. His album entitled Episode is the second most streamed album in the country. To no one’s surprise, Ben&Ben is still a mainstay among local favorites, maintaining a spot in the top 10 for their fourth consecutive year.

Again, to no one’s surprise, Taylor Swift is the overall top artist in the Philippines followed by BTS, Zack Tabudlo, Ben&Ben, and Justin Bieber.

Filipinos really got into podcasts in the last few years with 2022 showing only increased interest in the medium. Spotify has continued to launch exclusive and original content featuring Filipino podcasting talent. This further proves that there are a lot of Filipino creators with potential.

Intimate sharing of life stories and advice are a hit among Filipinos with Barangay Love Stories, Spotify Exclusive skypodcast, Dear MOR: The Podcast, and Spotify Original Hugot Marcelo taking up the top four spots. Comedic conversations also resonate withlocals as Spotify Exclusive Punchline with Alex Calleja took the fifth spot.

To continue the celebration around Wrapped, Spotify is also bringing Wrapped Playground to the Philippines. From the December 10-11, Spotify is transforming SM Mall of Asia’s Music Hall. Guests can enjoy fun activities and catch Filipino music acts like BINI and BGYO. The event runs from 11am-10pm on both days. BINI will perform on December 10 at 6pm while BGYO will have theirs at 1pm, the following day.

Entertainment

Netflix is getting a second F1 docuseries

Focusing on F1 Academy

Published

May 4, 2024

Luigi Leonardo

Image source: Bianca Bustamante (@racerbia), Instagram

Formula 1’s success these days owes a lot to Netflix’s Drive to Survive. In concise ten-episode chunks per season, the documentary series takes viewers through an entire season of the sport. Next year, Netflix is getting a second Formula 1 series, focusing on F1 Academy, to add to its motorsports slate.

The F1 Academy is a much smaller series attached to Formula 1. Before a few F1 races sprinkled through the season, 15 female drivers take to the circuit. Though the series only started in late 2022, its main goal is to grant developmental opportunities for female drivers in motorsports.

The newly minted series gained a lot of traction because of McLaren’s Bianca Bustamante, the first Filipino driver to win an F1 Academy race. She also has two other podium finishes in the series to her name.

Now, almost a year since winning her race, Bustamante will get her Netflix debut through a new docuseries simply titled F1 Academy. As the name indicates, the upcoming series will focus on the female-only series, much like how Drive to Survive focuses on the main series.

In production now, the series is set to premiere sometime in 2025. It will be produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine.

Apps

Bumble introduces new logo, better UI, features

Better dating experience

Published

May 4, 2024

Her

Bumble is ushering a new era of dating. The dating app has just rolled out a new brand design. This includes a new logo and user interface with bolder fonts and refreshed colors and illustrations. Along these are many significant updates to the app’s features, giving users better ways to connect with others.

For instance, Bumble has added hundreds of new prompts and have refreshed the prompts UI to help members show off their personalities easier. Shared interests have also been moved to the top of the profiles for users to better spot commonalities. This gives users a snippet of profiles for them to know right away what they have in common. Furthermore, the app has also increased the number of required profile photos to four to boost the likelihood of matches.

Among the new features on Bumble is Opening Moves. This allows women to set a post-match question for their connections to respond to within 24 hours. This facilitates a more meaningful connection and introduces another way to connect outside of Bumble’s Make The First Move. Of course, they may directly message their match even if they haven’t responded to the post-match question.

Meanwhile, Bumble has also expanded its Dating Intentions right from the setup. This is so users can answer the question “What are you hoping to find?” with more accurate choices. Among these are Long Term Relationship, Life Partner, Fun, Casual Dates, Intimacy without commitment, Ethical non-monogamy, and Marriage.

This change stemmed from a Bumble survey that saw 68% of women struggle with people not being upfront about their dating intentions. When browsing, the expanded dating intentions badges will show right below the person’s profile’s “About me” in a section called “I’m looking for.”

Moreover, Bumble has renamed Best Bees to For You. Bumble is employing a new machine learning model to give users their daily set of four curated and relevant profiles based on preferences and past matches.

The changes are part of Bumble’s mantra to empower women to make the first move, flip gender roles, and take control of their dating app experience and dating life in general.

Deals

AirAsia ASEAN Explorer Pass gets PhP 1,400 off

Until April 30 only

Published

April 27, 2024

GadgetMatch

Haven’t planned your international vacations yet? Great news for Filipino travelers: AirAsia MOVE’s ASEAN Explorer Pass just got a lot cheaper. Until April 30, the pass is available for a promo price of PhP 13,488. That’s PhP 1,400 cheaper than its original cost of PhP 14,888. To avail of the pass, simply download the AirAsia MOVE app here.

The ASEAN Explorer Pass offers Southeast Asians a cheaper and simpler way to explore more destinations within the region. When subscribed to the pass, travelers will unlimited enjoy zero-base fares on international ASEAN flights to Bangkok (Thailand), Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia), and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). Moreover, they will be able to enjoy unlimited use of an exclusive promo code to save up to 50% on all hotel bookings, as well as AirAsia ride perks. There are also free AirAsia ride trips from KLIA Terminals 1 and 2.

So, if you haven’t availed of the pass and happen to be thinking of traveling to Southeast Asian destinations, now is definitely a great time to avail. Kuala Lumpur also happens to be AirAsia’s “central hub,” meaning connecting flights almost always passes through KLIA 1 and 2. This means if you plan on traveling to nearby countries like Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, the ASEAN Explorer Pass is definitely one way to save on fares.

The low-cost airline’s digital arm released the Asean Pass last March, taking off from a previous promo called the airasia Super+. According to AirAsia MOVE’s December 2022 data, 80,000 international flights were redeemed and flown in a year from the Super+ offer, allowing travelers to save an average of PhP 17,900.