Animated illustrations celebrating a year’s worth of music listening and discovery.

The recap, which features a collection of a user's favorite songs, new discoveries, playlists, and top artists are editorialized with a suite of graphic illustrations.

The illustrations, developed by YouTube Music's team, are brought to life with a set of motion behaviors. The principle behavior, the idea of accumulation, gives the illustrations a physical and tangible quality. Utilizing a range of simple and graphic shapes, motion helps unify and bring together their shared qualities to create a cohesive set of illustrations without making them feel too similar.