Here's how your music tastes change throughout the year

The most obvious change is the flourishing of Christmas music every year during winter, but there are a bunch of other changes in what people listen to. To learn more about these trends, Spotify's data scientists looked at 100,000 of the most popular artists on its platform over a two-year period.

Here are a few of the insights Spotify gleaned about the different seasons:

• Fall: "People really like traditional, orchestral, acoustic music."
• Winter: Spoken word recordings, "mellower" subgenres, and music associated with particular countries.
• Spring: "Sunny, upbeat genres like Melbourne bounce, happy hardcore, and Eurovision."
• Summer: Audiobooks and "beach-oriented genres like deep tropical house and ragga jungle."

Spotify also took a look at which particular artists dominate each season. No surprise that old-school crooner Bing Crosby shows up in winter.

Here are the top 4 artists that dominate each season, according to Spotify: