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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. |
 | What I WantMorgan Wallen with Tate McRae |
Writer(s): Morgan Wallen, Tate McRae, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, Ryan Vojtesak, John Byron, Joe Reeves (see lyrics here) Released: May 16, 2025 First Charted: May 28, 2025 Peak: 11 BB, 16 ST, 16 AC, 5 A40, 13 CW, 30 UK, 2 CN, 13 AU (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): 2.0 US, 0.2 UK, 2.35 world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 25.85 video, 323.61 streaming |
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About the Song:Country artist Morgan Wallen was born in 1993 in Tennessee. He released his first album, If I Know Me, in 2018. That album and its two follow-ups were certified for a total of 22 million, generating nine top-ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and six #1 songs on the country chart. In 2024, Wallen started releasing singles from his fourth album, I’m the Problem. Though four singles from that album, he racked up a total of fourteen top-ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and nine #1 country songs. “What I Want,” the album’s fifth single, found Wallen topping both charts for the fourth time. The duet with Tate McRae marked his first collaboration with a female singer. The Canadian pop star broke through in the United States with her 2023 song “Greedy,” a #3 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Wallen’s sister, Ashlyne, introduced him to her music. SF Although the song wasn’t written with a female singer in mind, Wallen said she “absolutely crushed every single part of the song.” SF CountryCentral.com named “What I Want” the Best Collab of 2025. CC The song is “is an emotionally candid ballad” where two people “agree to a fleeting connection without the weight or risk of a deeper relationship.” SF They “bring their own baggage together, realizing that they ask more of each other and, as a result, let each other off the hook” WK for a “no-strings attached romance without expectation or regret.” SF Resources:
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First posted 1/18/2026. |
 | Sports CarTate McRae |
Writer(s): Tate McRae, Julia Michaels, Ryan Tedder, Grant Boutin (see lyrics here) Released: January 24, 2025 First Charted: February 5, 2025 Peak: 16 BB, 11 RR, 11 A40, 3 UK, 9 CN, 8 AU (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, 0.6 UK, 1.92 world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 77.13 video, 697.91 streaming |
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About the Song:Singer/songwriter and dancer Tate McRae was born in Canada in 2003. In 2016, she was a contestant on So You Think You Can Dance. She charted on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2020 with “You Broke Me First” (#16). She released her first album, I Used to Think I Could Fly, in 2022. Her next album, 2023’s Think Later, gave McRae her biggest hit yet with “Greedy” (#3, Billboard Hot 100). Her next album, 2025’s So Close to What, sent three songs into Billboard’s top 40. The most successful was “Sports Car” (#16), a “blunt message here is that there are few greater pleasure enhancers than a fat wallet, particularly if you can uh-uh in its spoils.” PF “Her minimalist sex song of tire squeaks, engine revs, and ASMR-whispered findom demands.” PF It “might be the most emblematic of her skill set as a modern hitmaker: a slick, combustible banger that translates to both top 40 radio and a choreo-heavy arena show. McRae stays comfortable with her flirtatious cooing in the opening chorus, then drops the hammer: a whisper chorus, both audacious and undeniable.” BB’25 “Sports Car” shares the “hyper-sexual” RS’25 quality of the Ying Yang Twins’ “Wait (The Whisper Song),” released two decades earlier. “Sports Car” also “has a whisper chorus…and plenty of her own horny lines – most memorably ‘So good it hurts / Thinkin’ ’bout what we did before this verse.’ Sonically, it echoes Y2K pop like Nelly Furtado and Britney Spears, but with a fresh update.” RS’25 Resources:
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First posted 1/19/2026. |
 | Juno Award:Single of the Year, 1974-2024 |
The Juno Awards are Canadian’s equivalent of the Grammys. In 1974, they launched their award for Single of the Year. Click here to see other “song of the year” lists.
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First posted 2/3/2021; last updated 3/24/2024. |
