A New Year's playlist the whole room writes 🎆

One playlist, everyone's anthems, straight to midnight

New Year's Eve is the longest party of the year — dinner at eight, countdown at twelve, dancing till four. No pre-made playlist survives that arc, and the host has better things to do at 11:55pm than DJ.

Hand the night to the guests: everyone joins with a QR code and queues their song of the year — the track they had on repeat, the summer anthem, the one from that trip. Votes decide the order, so the room's collective year plays itself back all night on your Spotify.

As midnight approaches, the queue turns into a countdown of its own: everyone campaigns for their pick to be the first song of the new year.

Start a party — free

🎧 Host needs Spotify Premium  ·  📱 Guests need nothing at all

How it works

01

Set the stage at dinner

Start with a playlist-sourced dinner mood, QR codes on the table, and let guests load up the queue between courses.

02

Vote toward midnight

After dinner, open all of Spotify. The upvotes get competitive as the clock runs — the party screen shows the race live.

03

First song of the year

Queue the countdown classic yourself, then let the most-voted guest pick own the first minutes of the new year.

💡 Host tips

  • Ask every guest to queue "your song of the year" as their entry ticket — instant conversation starter.
  • Use play-next as host to land Auld Lang Syne or the countdown song exactly at 12:00.
  • The 5-day pass spans New Year's *and* the New Year's Day recovery brunch.
  • Keep the party screen on the TV under the countdown clock — queue and clock in one glance.

New Year's Eve: common questions

Can I make sure a specific song plays exactly at midnight?

Yes — as the host you can push any track to play next, overriding the vote for that one moment. Land the countdown song at 11:58, then hand the queue back to the crowd for the first hours of the new year.

How late does the party keep working?

As long as your Spotify keeps playing. dj-fy runs the queue continuously, and when guests fade and stop queueing, your fallback playlist carries the last dancers — there's never silence.

We're two families celebrating together — do guests need accounts?

No accounts and no app for anyone joining: scan, nickname, queue. Only the host needs a Spotify Premium account and a free dj-fy signup.

Is one Party Pass enough for the whole NYE weekend?

Yes — a pass is valid 5 full days, so December 30th pre-party, NYE itself and the January 1st brunch all run on the same $5 pass.

Ready to hand over the aux? 🎉

Set it up in a minute. Free to start, $5 for a whole party weekend.

Start a party — free

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