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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

The Top 50 Songs of 2025

Dave’s Music Database:

Top 50 Songs of 2025

These are the top 50 songs for the year based on their overall performance in Dave’s Music Database, which is determined by combining chart data, sales figures, streaming, video views, and aggregates from year-end lists and charts.

Check out “Top Songs and Albums of the Year” lists here.

    DMDB Top 2%:

  1. Alex Warren “Ordinary”
  2. Huntr/x “Golden”

    DMDB Top 5%:

  3. Taylor Swift “The Fate of Ophelia”
  4. Lady Gaga “Abracadabra”

    DMDB Top 10%:

  5. Sabrina Carpenter “Manchild”
  6. Morgan Wallen & Tate McRae “What I Want”
  7. Chappell Roan “The Subway”
  8. Olivia Dean “Man I Need”
  9. Tate McRae “Sports Car”
  10. Justin Bieber “Daisies”

  11. Bad Bunny “DTMF”
  12. Drake “Nokia”

    DMDB Top 20%:

  13. Sombr “Undressed”
  14. Kehlani “Folded”
  15. Tame Impala “Dracula”
  16. Benson Boone “Mystical Magical”
  17. Benson Boone “Sorry I’m Here for Someone Else”
  18. Morgan Wallen “I’m the Problem”
  19. Bad Bunny “Baile Inolvidable”
  20. The Weeknd “Cry fo Me”

  21. Lorde “What Was That”
  22. Pink Pantheress “Illegal”
  23. Role Model “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out”
  24. Raye “Where Is My Husband!”
  25. Chappell Roan “The Giver”
  26. Somb “12 to 12”
  27. Bad Bunny “NuevaYol”
  28. Justin Bieber “Yukon”
  29. Ed Sheeran “Azizam”
  30. Taylor Swift “Opalite”

  31. Morgan Wallen “Just in Case”
  32. Tyler the Creator “Sugar on My Tongue”
  33. Disco Lines with Tinashe “No Broke Boys”
  34. Moliy with Silent Addy, Shenseea, & Skillibeng “Shake It to the Max (Fly)”
  35. Sabrina Carpenter “Tears”
  36. Alex Warren & Jelly Roll “Bloodline”
  37. Saja Boys “Soda Pop”
  38. Lil Tecca “Dark Thoughts”
  39. Doechii “Denial Is a River”
  40. Mumford & Sons “Rushmere”

  41. Sleep Token “Caramel”
  42. Saja Boys “Your Idol”
  43. Taylor Swift & Sabrina Carpenter “The Life of a Showgirl”
  44. SZA “BMF”
  45. Lady Gaga “The Dead Dance”
  46. Sleep Token Emergence”
  47. Playboi Carti & The Weeknd “Rather Lie”
  48. Tate McRae “Revolving Door”
  49. Russell Dickerson “Happen to Me”
  50. Linkin Park “Up from the Bottom”

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First posted 1/21/2026.

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Monday, February 3, 2025

Lady Gaga “Abracdabra” released

Abracadabra

Lady Gaga

Writer(s): Lady Gaga, Andrew Watt, Henry Walter, Susan Janet Ballion, Peter Edward Clarke, Steven Severin,John McGeoch (see lyrics here)

Released: February 3, 2025

First Charted: February 12, 2025

Peak: 13 BB, 27 AC, 6 A40, 3 UK, 12 CN, 12 AU (Click for codes to charts.)

Sales (in millions): -- US, 0.6 UK, 0.83 world (includes US + UK)

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 268.70 video, 693.33 streaming

Awards:

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About the Song:

Billboard magazine proclaimed that Lady Gaga has “one of the strongest pop catalogs of the last 15 years.” BB’25 It really stretches back a bit farther to 2009 when she established herself as a new dance-pop star with “Just Dance” and “Poker Face.” She also gifted the music world with “Bad Romance,” “Born This Way,” “Shallow,” and “Die with a Smile.” Even amongst such gems, however, 2025’s “Abracadabra” is “one of Gaga’s best-ever singles.” PF Rolling Stone called it “2025’s most inescapable earworm.” RS’25

The “gothic fantasia” BB’25 of this “sleazy, slinky club banger” BB’25 is “a psychedelically weird acid-techno rager that’s so nasty, so potent, that it makes ‘Bad Romance’ sound like Kidz Bop.” PF “The synthesizers fade in and out like a slow-strobing disco light on a foggy dance floor.” RS’25 “Gaga managed to channel the mysticism of Stevie Nicks while remaining true to her singular unconventionality as she sang of devils, angels, self-doubt, love, death and, essentially the meaning of life, in under four minutes.” US

She told Rolling Stone “I wanted to traverse old ground while breaking new ground, which I think is hard to do… Maybe the last four or so albums I’ve made, I moved away from that and tried some different things, but this was a return to those Gothic dreams.”RS’25

She told Elle magazine that the song was about “facing the challenge of life and the challenge of the night and finding the magic in it all.” SF She also said, “the song is about dealing with that challenge to yourself and very often the world around us can reflect it back to us as well. I wanted to explore the question, ‘What does it feel like to thrive and not just be surviving all the time?’” SF

The song received Grammy nominations for Song and Record of the Year.

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First posted 1/19/2026.

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