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Apple Music has unveiled its top songs of 2025

If you use any of the streaming services, you might soon receive emails about the top songs of 2025. And then, of course, there’s all the hype surrounding Spotify Wrapped.

First out of the gate is Apple Music with their list of the platform’s biggest songs of the year. Globally, the top 10 streamers on the platform were:

  1. APT., ROSE and Bruno Mars
  2. luther, Kendrick Lamar and SZA
  3. Die with a Smile, Lady Gaga and Bruno Marks
  4. Not Like Us, Kendrick Lamar
  5. Birds of a Feather, Billie Eilish
  6. That’s So True, Gracie Adams
  7. Ordinary, Alex Warren
  8. Timeless, The Weeknd, Playboi Carti
  9. Wildflower, Billie Eilish
  10. 30 for 30, SZA (with Kenrick Lamar)

The entire list can be found here.

The top-five most-Shazamed tracks (Shazam is owned by Apple) were:

  1. APT., ROSE and Bruno Mars
  2. Messy, Lola Young
  3. Die with a Smile, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars
  4. Ordinary, Alex Warren
  5. Shake It to the Max (FLY) (Remix), MOLly, Sildet Addy, Shenseea

More Shazam stats here.

And here are the most-read lyrics.

  1. APT., Rose and Bruno Mars
  2. luther, Kendrick Lamar and SZA
  3. Die with Smile, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars
  4. Golden, HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI, K-pop Demon Hunters
  5. Not Like Us, Kendrick Lamar

More of those songs/lyrics here.

Alan Cross

is an internationally known broadcaster, interviewer, writer, consultant, blogger and speaker. In his 40+ years in the music business, Alan has interviewed the biggest names in rock, from David Bowie and U2 to Pearl Jam and the Foo Fighters. He’s also known as a musicologist and documentarian through programs like The Ongoing History of New Music.

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