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Spotify Wrapped has launched for 2025, showing music fans their most listened to songs, artists, albums and more. See how to access yours, along with this year’s UK and global trends below.
It has become a staple of many music lovers’ festive period – reflecting their listening habits from the past 12 months in its ‘Celebration Of Your Year’ experience. Today (Wednesday December 3), the streaming service has launched their Wrapped experience again, but now with a more “personalised user experience”, which the company says is “bigger and bolder” while “more captivating, more layered, and more revealing than ever before”.
A Spotify spokesperson continued: “2025 Wrapped is all of the Wrapped classics we know and love – plus nearly a dozen new ways to connect and dig deeper into the stories and moments that made the year unmistakably yours.”
See below to check out the new features of Spotify Wrapped.
Visit here to explore your own Spotify Wrapped for 2025, and check out the launch film below – helmed by music video director KC Locke (Ed Sheeran, Stormzy, KSI) and featuring some of the year’s biggest artists (including Central Cee, PinkPantheress, Lewis Capaldi, JADE, Nemzzz, and more) alongside cameos from Louis Theroux, Bus Aunty, Al Nash, and Grime Gran to “create a truly unique snapshot of the year”.
The new features of Spotify Wrapped for 2025 are:
- Listening Age: Comparing your musical tastes to others’ in your age group, looking at the release years of the tracks you listen to most.
- Top Albums: Spotlighting the albums you returned to again and again.
- Top Audiobook Genre: Highlights your top audiobook genre and the book you listened to most from that genre.
- Your Author Clip: Messages from authors behind top audiobooks from the likes of Dan Brown, James Patterson, Abby Jimenez, and more.
- Your Podcaster Clip: Messages from top podcast creators, including hosts from the likes of The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, The Mel Robbins Podcast, and Good Hang with Amy Poehler.
- Fan Leaderboard: See where you rank among their listeners worldwide, based on your total minutes listened.
- Clubs: Separating listeners into one of six clubs that each “represent a unique listening style”.
- Listening Archive: AI-powered personalised snapshots of your “most memorable streaming days”.
- Wrapped Party: An interactive feature that “turns your listening data into a live competition you can play with friends”.
Globally, Bad Bunny is Spotify’s top artist for the fourth time – after the future Super Bowl Halftime Show headliner scored the title in 2020, 2021 and 2022 previously – landing more than 19.8billion streams worldwide in 2025.
The top song globally for 2025 is Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ ‘Die With A Smile’, which attracting more 1.7billion streams.
In the UK, Taylor Swift has once again takes the top spot again as the most streamed artist for the third consecutive year ahead of Drake, Sabrina Carpenter, The Weeknd and Billie Eilish, while Alex Warren’s ‘Ordinary’ is the UK’s most streamed song’ ahead of Gracie Abrams‘ ‘That’s So True’ and ‘Messy’ by Lola Young.
Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short n’ Sweet‘ is the most-streamed album in the UK ahead of Alex Warren’s ‘You’ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1) and the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack.
Check out the full Top 10s from the UK below:
Spotify’s Top UK Artists of 2025 are:
Taylor Swift
Drake
Sabrina Carpenter
The Weeknd
Billie Eilish
Kanye West
Kendrick Lamar
Rihanna
Tate McRae
Ariana Grande
Spotify’s Top UK Songs of 2025 are:
‘Ordinary’ by Alex Warren
‘That’s So True’ by Gracie Abrams
‘Messy’ by Lola Young
‘Pink Pony Club’ by Chappell Roan
‘BIRDS OF A FEATHER’ by Billie Eilish
‘Love Me Not’ by Ravyn Lenae
‘back to friends’ by sombr
‘Sailor Song’ by Gigi Perez
‘Die With A Smile’ by Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars
‘Good Luck, Babe!’ by Chappell Roan
Spotify’s Top UK Albums of 2025 are:
‘Short n’ Sweet’ by Sabrina Carpenter
‘You’ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1)’ by Alex Warren
KPop Demon Hunters Soundtrack
‘The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess’ by Chappell Roan
‘So Close To What’ by Tate McRae
‘The Secret of Us’ by Gracie Abrams
‘HIT ME HARD AND SOFT’ by Billie Eilish
‘SOS Deluxe: LANA’ by SZA
‘The Art of Loving’ by Olivia Dean
‘Stick Season’ by Noah Kahan
Again, Spotify hasn’t been without controversy in 2025. Along with continuing issues and complaints around artist payment, the platform has made headlines for the investments of CEO Daniel Ek.
A number of artists have boycotted the streaming service, with Massive Attack vowing that their new material shall never be released on it. The trip-hop icons’ dispute with Spotify emerged earlier this year when they revealed that they had asked their label UMG to remove their music from the platform, following reports that Ek had led a €600million (£524million) investment into Helsing, a Munich-based company creating drones and artificial intelligence for military operations.
In a statement at the time, the band said: “In light of the (reported) significant investments by [Spotify’s] CEO in a company producing military munition drones & Al technology integrated into fighter aircraft, Massive Attack have made a separate request to our label that our music be removed from the Spotify streaming service in all territories.”
They continued: “The economic burden that has long been placed on artists is now compounded by a moral & ethical burden, whereby the hard-earned money of fans & the creative endeavours of musicians ultimately funds lethal, dystopian technologies.”
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard also pulled their music from the streaming platform as a result, in a bid to “put pressure on these Dr. Evil tech bros to do better”, while the Sabres Of Paradise removed their music from Spotify due to its “financial ties to AI-driven weapon technologies”.
Other artists have made similar moves to remove their work from Spotify this year, including Deerhoof, Wu Lyf, Xiu Xiu and many more.
In September, Ek announced that he would be stepping down as CEO on January 1, 2026, with Spotify co-presidents Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström set to take his place.
Spotify have also recently cracked down on AI, removing 75million tracks and targeted impersonators, and the streaming giant previously claimed it had paid $10billion (£7.58billion) in royalties in 2024, the largest payout to the music industry in a single year.
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