Spotify Wrapped 2025 announces the year’s biggest artists, songs and albums

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Spotify Wrapped 2025 announces the year’s biggest artists, songs and albums

Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen and Alex Warren dominate music charts, while Joe Rogan and Steven Bartlett lord it over the top podcasts

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Spotify has unveiled its annual Wrapped feature, allowing fans to gain insights into their listening habits over the past year. The streaming service has also shared its stats for the biggest artists, albums, songs, podcasts and audiobooks over the past 12 months.

Puerto Rico’s Latin trap megastar Bad Bunny returned to claim his crown as Spotify’s Global Top Artist for the fourth time, having previously held the title in 2020, 2021 and 2022. He also achieved the global top album with his latest release, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.

The news comes ahead of his headline performance at the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show, and after he scooped a number of major category nominations at next year’s Grammys.

Meanwhile, the global top song of the year was actually released in 2024: Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’s monster hit “Die With a Smile”, which accrued more than 1.7 billion streams in 2025 alone.

In the UK, Spotify unveiled its Wrapped feature with a cinematic film featuring a number of its biggest artists, such as rapper Central Cee, pop stars Lola Young, JADE and Olivia Dean, Lewis Capaldi, and Irish folk-rock band Kingfishr.

Alex Warren’s inescapable single “Ordinary” was the most-streamed song of the year in the UK, beating Gracie Abrams’ “That’s So True” and “Messy” by Lola Young. Taylor Swift took the top spot for the third consecutive year as the UK’s most popular artist – as well as in the US – followed by Canadian star Drake and fellow US pop singer Sabrina Carpenter.

open image in galleryBad Bunny was the Top Global Artist on Spotify in 2025 (MBC)

Carpenter also claimed the biggest album on Spotify in the UK with her seventh studio album, Short n’ Sweet, another Grammy contender for prizes including Album of the Year. Women once again dominated the top UK albums; just three out of 10 records were by male artists or an ensemble cast of singers, in the case of the cast of Netflix’s KPop: Demon Hunters soundtrack.

Along with the biggest music of the year, Spotify shared its most successful podcasts, topped globally for the sixth year running by The Joe Rogan Experience. In the UK, the controversial host took second place, bested only by Steven Bartlett’s podcast The Diary of a CEO, with The Louis Theroux Podcast coming third.

You can find Spotify Wrapped 2025’s top US, UK and Global artists, albums, songs, podcasts and audio books below:

In the UK…

Top UK Artists of 2025:

1. Taylor Swift
2. Drake
3. Sabrina Carpenter
4. The Weeknd
5. Billie Eilish
6. Kanye West
7. Kendrick Lamar
8. Rihanna
9. Tate McRae
10. Ariana Grande

open image in gallerySwift dominated charts this year with her album ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ (PA Media)

Top UK Songs of 2025:

1. “Ordinary” by Alex Warren
2. “That’s So True” by Gracie Abrams
3. “Messy” by Lola Young
4. “Pink Pony Club” by Chappell Roan
5. “BIRDS OF A FEATHER” by Billie Eilish
6. “Love Me Not” by Ravyn Lenae
7. “back to friends” by sombr
8. “Sailor Song” by Gigi Perez
9. “Die With A Smile” by Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars
10. “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan

open image in galleryAlex Warren topped charts around the world with his viral single ‘Ordinary’ (2025 Invision)

Top UK Albums of 2025:

1. Short n’ Sweet by Sabrina Carpenter
2. You'll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1) by Alex Warren
3. KPop Demon Hunters (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film) by KPop Demon Hunters Cast
4. The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess by Chappell Roan
5. So Close To What by Tate McRae
6. The Secret of Us by Gracie Abrams
7. HIT ME HARD AND SOFT by Billie Eilish
8. SOS Deluxe: LANA by SZA
9. The Art of Loving by Olivia Dean
10. Stick Season by Noah Kahan

open image in galleryRESEÑA-SABRINA CARPENTER (AP)

Top UK Audiobooks in Premium of 2025:

1. The Trading Game by Gary Stevenson
2. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
3. The Hotel Avocado by Bob Mortimer
4. The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
5. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
6. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
7. Mythos by Stephen Fry
8. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas
9. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
10. A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin

Top UK Podcasts of 2025:

1. The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
2. The Joe Rogan Experience
3. The Louis Theroux Podcast
4. The Rest Is Politics
5. The Mel Robbins Podcast
6. The Rest Is History
7. We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson
8. Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
9. The Rest Is Football
10. The Rest Is Entertainment

open image in gallerySteven Bartlett has the UK’s most popular podcast on Spotify (Getty)

Global…

Global Top Artists of 2025:

1. Bad Bunny
2. Taylor Swift
3. The Weeknd
4. Drake
5. Billie Eilish
6. Kendrick Lamar
7. Bruno Mars
8. Ariana Grande
9. Arijit Singh
10. Fuerza Regida

Global Top Songs of 2025:

1. “Die With A Smile” by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars
2. “BIRDS OF A FEATHER” by Billie Eilish
3. “APT.” by ROSÉ and Bruno Mars
4. “Ordinary” by Alex Warren
5. “DtMF” by Bad Bunny
6. “back to friends” by sombr
7. “Golden” by HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI, KPop Demon Hunters Cast
8. “luther (with sza)” by Kendrick Lamar
9. “That's So True” by Gracie Abrams
10. “WILDFLOWER” by Billie Eilish

open image in galleryLady Gaga performs with Bruno Mars in 2025 (Getty Images)

Global Top Albums of 2025:

1. DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS by Bad Bunny
2. KPop Demon Hunters by KPop Demon Hunters Cast, HUNTR/X, Saja Boys
3. HIT ME HARD AND SOFT by Billie Eilish
4. SOS Deluxe: LANA by SZA
5. Short n' Sweet by Sabrina Carpenter
6. MAYHEM by Lady Gaga
7. You'll Be Alright, Kid by Alex Warren
8. I’m The Problem by Morgan Wallen
9. GNX by Kendrick Lamar
10. Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny

open image in galleryBad Bunny is one of the world’s biggest artists (Getty Images)

Global Top Podcasts of 2025:

1. The Joe Rogan Experience
2. The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
3. The Mel Robbins Podcast
4. Call Her Daddy
5. This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
6. Huberman Lab
7. Crime Junkie
8. Modern Wisdom
9. On Purpose with Jay Shetty
10. The Tucker Carlson Show

open image in galleryPodcaster Joe Rogan attracts a huge audience with his Spotify podcast (JRE)

Global Top Audiobooks in Premium of 2025:

1. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
2. Lights Out by Navessa Allen
3. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
4. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
5. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas
6. The House of My Mother by Shari Franke
7. The Wedding People by Alison Espach
8. A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J Maas
9. Quicksilver by Callie Hart
10. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

In the US…

Top US Artists of 2025

1. Taylor Swift
2. Drake
3. Morgan Wallen
4. Kendrick Lamar
5. Bad Bunny
6. The Weeknd
7. SZA
8. Zach Bryan
9. Tyler, The Creator
10. Kanye West

open image in gallerySwift was the number one US artist of 2025 (PA Wire)

Top US Songs of 2025:

1. “luther (with sza)” by Kendrick Lamar & SZA
2. “Die With A Smile” by Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars
3. “Ordinary” by Alex Warren
4. “BIRDS OF A FEATHER” by Billie Eilish
5. “tv off (feat. lefty gunplay)” by Kendrick Lamar & Lefty Gunplay
6. “Golden” by HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI, KPop Demon Hunters Cast
7. “back to friends” by sombr
8. “Pink Pony Club” by Chappell Roan
9. “Timeless (feat. Playboi Carti)” by The Weeknd & Playboi Carti
10. “No One Noticed” by The Marías

open image in galleryKendrick Lamar and SZA benefited from their 2025 co-headline tour (AP)

Top US Albums of 2025:

1. I’m The Problem by Morgan Wallen
2. SOS Deluxe: LANA by SZA
3. DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS by Bad Bunny
4. KPop Demon Hunters by KPop Demon Hunters Cast, HUNTR/X, Saja Boys
5. GNX by Kendrick Lamar
6. Short n’ Sweet by Sabrina Carpenter
7. So Close To What by Tate McRae
8. The Life of a Showgirl by Taylor Swift
9. One Thing At A Time by Morgan Wallen
10. HIT ME HARD AND SOFT by Billie Eilish

open image in galleryMorgan Wallen released the biggest album on Spotify in 2025 (Getty)

Top US Podcasts of 2025:

1. The Joe Rogan Experience
2. This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
3. The Mel Robbins Podcast
4. Call Her Daddy
5. Crime Junkie
6. The Shawn Ryan Show
7. The Tucker Carlson Show
8. The Daily
9. Huberman Lab
10. Good Hang with Amy Poehler

Top US Audiobooks in Premium of 2025:

1. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
2. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
3. Lights Out by Navessa Allen
4. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
5. The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
6. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
7. The Wedding People by Alison Espach
8. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas
9. The House of My Mother by Shari Franke
10. Quicksilver by Callie Hart

Find everything you need to know about Spotify Wrapped 2025 here.

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