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%: Alex Warren “Ordinary” Huntr/x “Golden” DMDB Top 5%: Taylor Swift “The Fate of Ophelia” Lady Gaga “Abracadabra” DMDB Top 10%: Sabrina Carpenter “Manchild” Morgan Wallen & Tate McRae “What I Want” Chappell Roan “The Subway” Olivia Dean “Man I Need” Tate McRae “Sports Car” Justin Bieber “Daisies” Bad Bunny “DTMF” Drake “Nokia” DMDB Top 20%: Sombr “Undressed” Kehlani “Folded” Tame Impala “Dracula” Benson Boone “Mystical Magical” Benson Boone “Sorry I’m Here for Someone Else” Morgan Wallen “I’m the Problem” Bad Bunny “Baile Inolvidable” The Weeknd “Cry fo Me” Lorde “What Was That” Pink Pantheress “Illegal” Role Model “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out” Raye “Where Is My Husband!” Chappell Roan “The Giver” Somb “12 to 12” Bad Bunny “NuevaYol” Justin Bieber “Yukon” Ed Sheeran “Azizam” Taylor Swift “Opalite” Morgan Wallen “Just in Case” Tyler the Creator “Sugar on My Tongue” Disco Lines with Tinashe “No Broke Boys” Moliy with Silent Addy, Shenseea, & Skillibeng “Shake It to the Max (Fly)” Sabrina Carpenter “Tears” Alex Warren & Jelly Roll “Bloodline” Saja Boys “Soda Pop” Lil Tecca “Dark Thoughts” Doechii “Denial Is a River” Mumford & Sons “Rushmere” Sleep Token “Caramel” Saja Boys “Your Idol” Taylor Swift & Sabrina Carpenter “The Life of a Showgirl” SZA “BMF” Lady Gaga “The Dead Dance” Sleep Token Emergence” Playboi Carti & The Weeknd “Rather Lie” Tate McRae “Revolving Door” Russell Dickerson “Happen to Me” Linkin Park “Up from the Bottom” Resources/Related Links: Dave’s Music Database: Top Songs and Albums by Year lists Dave’s Music Database: Songs of the Decade lists First posted 1/21/2026.

Huntr/x “Golden” hit #1

Golden Huntr/x

Writer(s): Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, 24, Ido, Teddy (see lyrics here) Released: July 4, 2025 First Charted: July 2, 2025 Peak: 18 BB, 11 BA, 15 DG, 112 ST, 12 RR, 10 AC, 3 A40, 110 UK, 15 CN, 117 AU (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): 2.0 US, 1.2 UK, 3.96 world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 1041.09 video, 1388.24 streaming

Awards: Click on award for more details.

About the Song: It was only a matter of time before someone created a movie to tap into the Kpop craze initiated by Korean pop acts like BTS and Psy that crossed over in America. 2025’s KPop Demon Hunters was “an animated musical with no big-name voice actors, based around a genre with passionate but extremely protective fans, whose stars – even some of the very biggest ones – have found difficulty crossing over to the most mainstream American spaces.” BB’25 “There were a million ways that could go wrong, and only one way that it really could go right: The songs were gonna have to be very, very, very good.” BB’25 Rolling Stone declared “the animated K-pop fantasia…was one of 2025’s pop-cultural bright spots.” RS’25 The soundtrack album’s “giddy lead single” RS’25 “only amped up the joyful frenzy surrounding it.” RS’25 The “synth-draped” RS’25 “Golden” spent eight weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 and the magazine’s staff picked it as the song of the year, calling it “the best, most exciting pop song of 2025.” BB’25 The song was nominated for a Grammy for Song of the Year. The song was “credited to the titular stars-slash-slayers HUNTR/X and performed by Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami, and co-writer EJAE.” RS’25 “It was the perfect HUNTR/X song. It’s aspirational, in the grand tradition of Disney…songs” BB’25 and “the propulsive drums and glistening synths make the entire thing feel like an Olympic awards ceremony.” BB’25 “But the real miracle of ‘Golden’ is that you don’t need to already be a fan of KPop Demon Hunters – or really even of K-pop in general – to love it. It’s thrived…where previous Disney and movie anthems failed, because they were too inextricably tied to their source soundtracks.” BB’25 “The song is so glorious, and its ascent has taken it so high up, that it’s largely broken free of the movie’s orbit.” BB’25 Resources: BB’25 Billboard (12/11/2025). “The 100 Best Songs of 2025: Staff Picks” RS’25 Rolling Stone (12/4/2025). “The 100 Best Songs of 2025” Related Links: First posted 1/18/2026.