Apple Music Shares 2025 Year-End Charts

[MacRumors]

Apple today released its 2025 Apple Music year-end charts, highlighting new global listening trends, expanded analytics, and several unexpected chart-topping performances across streaming, radio, lyrics, and Shazam activity.

Apple said the annual charts reflect a broader set of data collected throughout 2025 from global Apple Music streams, Shazam searches, time-synced lyric engagement, radio, Apple Music Sing usage, and more.

Top Songs of 2025: Global

1. ROSÉ & Bruno Mars, "APT."
2. Kendrick Lamar & SZA, "luther"
3. Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars, "Die With A Smile"
4. Kendrick Lamar, "Not Like Us"
5. Billie Eilish, "BIRDS OF A FEATHER"

Top 100: Shazam

1. ROSÉ & Bruno Mars, "APT."
2. Lola Young, "Messy"
3. Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars, "Die With A Smile"
4. Alex Warren, "Ordinary"
5. MOLIY, Silent Addy, Skillibeng & Shenseea, "Shake It To The Max (FLY) [Remix]"

Top 100: Global Radio

1. ROSÉ & Bruno Mars, "APT."
2. Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars, "Die With A Smile"
3. Lola Young, "Messy"
4. Alex Warren, "Ordinary"
5. Billie Eilish, "BIRDS OF A FEATHER"

Top 100: Lyrics

1. ROSÉ & Bruno Mars, "APT."
2. Kendrick Lamar & SZA, "luther"
3. Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars, "Die With A Smile"
4. HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast, "Golden"
5. Kendrick Lamar, "Not Like Us"

Top 100: Sing

1. Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars, "Die With A Smile"
2. ROSÉ & Bruno Mars, "APT."
3. Billie Eilish, "WILDFLOWER"
4. HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast, "Golden"
5. Mrs. GREEN APPLE, "Lilac"

All 2025 Apple Music year-end charts, including the Top Songs of 2025: Global, the Top 100: Shazam, the Most-Read Lyrics, Top 100: Sing, Top 100: Fitness, and the year-end Shazam Global Radio Spins chart, are now available to browse and play in the Apple Music app.

Article Link: Apple Music Shares 2025 Year-End Charts

 

[fenderbass146]

I have literally heard of one of these songs and know like 4 of these artist...I'm old and yes....this generations music is awful.

Shocked Taylor Swift isn't on here anywhere.

(The ones I know Bruno, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, the ones I've heard of but don't remotely know...Kendrik Lamar and Sza. And wtf is this "ROSÉ &amp'". Is that a band name?

 

[capamac]

Huh. My personal top 10 is pretty much all Hall and Oates.

 

[jdavid_rp]

Bruno Mars got a nice year of collabs, let the royalties flow in

 

[Ursadorable]

I've heard of exactly one of these groups/bands/artists.

Honestly, I can't stand most of the bland and flavorless pablum they call music these days. It could be AI slop for all I know, because it all sounds the same, or contains a riff from 80's song. It started in the late 90's where most music coming out was the same formulaic beat, with meaningless lyrics.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

I've heard the Lady GaGa and Bruno Mars song, and the one from HUNTR/X, but some of these artists I've never even heard of, let alone the songs...Mrs. Green Apple?? Wife and I still listen to a lot of new music, but generally in the electronic and edm genre.

Ah well; such is life!

 

[segfaultdotorg]

Is this the iMusic equivalent of Spotify Wrapped?

 

[Avalon0387]

The decline of Western civilization.

 

[Gewurtz66]

I have literally heard of one of these songs and know like 4 of these artist...I'm old and yes....this generations music is awful.

Shocked Taylor Swift isn't on here anywhere.

(The ones I know Bruno, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, the ones I've heard of but don't remotely know...Kendrik Lamar and Sza. And wtf is this "ROSÉ &amp'". Is that a band name?

Rose is a Korean Australian member of Black Pink who went solo.

Meanwhile, we all have a tendency to exaggerate the merit of our "own" generation's art and music and denigrate that which comes after. When Igor Stravinsky debuted a new work in 1913 Paris, the audience rioted, supposedly upset by the jarring dissonance and jerky choreography.

 

[skottichan]

My wife and I definitely contributed to the Billie Eilish, GaGa/Bruno Mars and HUNTR/X being on the list.


Tho man, I've been listening to Anthony Vincent's Kpop Demon Hunters covers, BBNO$ and Electric Callboy on loop while I work on my webcomic.

Edit: it's so sad seeing the curmudgeons on this post. I guess I'm spoiled, my GenX mom still jams to new music and loves when my wife and I share new stuff with her. I can't imagine being stuck on the music from my childhood (I mean seriously, 80's-90's music is the greatest example of survivorship bias ever).