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 | 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.
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First posted 1/21/2026. |
 | Spotify:Songs of the Year, 1960-2025 |
These are the top songs each year (1960 to present) according to most streams on Spotify. Click here to see other ‘Songs of the Year’ lists.
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First posted 11/6/2021; last updated 12/31/2025. |
 | ManchildSabrina Carpenter |
Writer(s): Sabrina Carpenter, Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff (see lyrics here) Released: June 5, 2025 First Charted: June 18, 2025 Peak: 11 BB, 11 ST, 11 RR, 13 AC, 3 A40, 12 UK, 2 CN, 2 AU (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, 0.4 UK, 1.47 world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 174.93 video, 655.51 streaming |
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About the Song:Singer/songwriter Sabrina Carpenter found success as a teenager on the Disney Channel series Girl Meets World before embarking on a music career. She hit the big time with her sixth album, Short n’ Sweet, in 2024. The album reached #1 in the U.S. and many other markets around the world and was certified four times platinum. The album was fueled by three top-five hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including the #1 “Please Please Please.” Her next album, 2025’s Man’s Best Friend, landed Carpenter her second chart-topper with “Manchild.” The “country-tingled” BB’25 song “feels like a sequel to 2024’s ‘Please Please Please’ – in which she’s begging her love interest not to embarrass her – but this time, Sabrina knows exactly what she’s dealing with and still can’t seem to stay away.” BB’25 The “cheeky single” NP is “upbeat and playful,” BB’25 “a glimpse inside the deeply hilarious and very sharp mind of Sabrina Carpenter.” RS’25 She had “built a reputation for her tongue-in-cheek songwriting, and she puts her winking chops to excellent use” BB’25 on what Rolling Stone called an “ABBA rodeo jam.” RS’25 She “writes with characteristic wit about…knowing a man is emotionally stunted but still caring enough to sing a whole song about him.” PF “Manchild” “cemented her position in the pop penthouse.” BB’25 It “proved the success of Short n’ Sweet wasn’t just a one-off, and that this five-foot-tall innuendo-loving pop star will be here for a while.” RS’25 The song received Grammy nominations for Song and Record of the Year. Resources:
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First posted 1/19/2026. |
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| Dave’s Music Database:Top 50 Songs of 2024 |
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.
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First posted 12/26/2024; last updated 1/21/2026. |
 | EspressoSabrina Carpenter |
Writer(s): Sabrina Carpenter, Amy Allen, Julian Bunetta, Steph Jones (see lyrics here) Released: April 11, 2024 First Charted: April 24, 2024 Peak: 3 BB, 13 RR, 6 AC, 12 A40, 17 UK, 3 CN, 11 AU (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): 5.0 US, 1.2 UK, 8.09 world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, --240.97 video, 1745.89 streaming |
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About the Song:Singer/songwriter Sabrian Carpenter was born in 1999 in Pennsylvania. As a teenager, she starred in Girl Meets World on the Disney Channel. She released her first single in 2014 and her first album the following year. While her first five albums all charted, it wasn’t until 2024’s Short N’ Sweet that she ascended to the top of the Billboard album chart. It also went double platinum and lifted the previous album, 2022’s Emails I Can’t Send, to platinum status as well. “Feather,” from the Emails deluxe album release, was Carpenter’s first foray into the top 40. She followed that with three top-5, multi-platinum hits from her Short N’ Sweet album. The first of them, “Espresso,” peaked the lowest (#3) but sold the most (five times platinum). It topped the charts in more than 25 countries, including Australia and the UK. WK The song was nominated for Grammys for Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. Carpenter told Vogue magazine that the song was about “seeing femininity as your super power and embracing the confidence of being ‘that bitch.’” WK In the song, she brags about a guy who “can't sleep a wink, his mind buzzing with thoughts of her, and she knows it.” SF She is “the irresistible jolt that’ll keep…[him] wired with anticipation.” SF Vulture called the dance-pop song an “instant earworm” WK while Uproxx praised it for its “infectious groove” WK and Rolling Stone for its “irresistible rhythm.” WK Songfacts.com says it is “one of the catchiest pop songs we’ve ever hear, an earworm that strikes like a heat-seeking missile.” SF Resources:Related Links:
First posted 12/27/2024; last updated 1/1/2025. |
