Spotify Wrapped 2025: Bad Bunny dethrones Taylor Swift as most-streamed global artist

Spotify Wrapped is here, with the streaming giant allowing users to access their top artists, songs, albums, as well as unveiling its annual overview of listening trends from around the world.

This year, Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny has been crowned Global Top Artist, earning more than 19.8 billion streams and dethroning Taylor Swift as the most-streamed artist globally.

The future (and controversial, in some circles) Super Bowl Halftime Show headliner earns the title for the fourth time in total and is followed this year by Swift, The Weeknd, Drake and Billie Eilish in the Top 5.

For the last two years, Swift has kept the top spot she took from Bad Bunny, who held the coveted title for three years in a row beginning in 2020.

In a statement, Spotify said: “This four-time achievement isn’t just about one artist’s success. It’s about the global nature of today’s music audience. Spanish-language music is reaching fans everywhere. Regional genres are moving onto the global stage. The borders are gone.”

Scroll down for the full breakdown of 2025’s Top global artists, songs, albums and podcasts.

The most-streamed album globally was, predictably, Bad Bunny’s ‘DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS‘, followed by the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack and three releases from last year: Billie Eilish’s ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’, SZA’s ‘SOS Deluxe: LANA’ and Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short n’ Sweet’.

Globally, the most-streamed song title goes to Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga’s collaboration ‘Die with a Smile’, which racked up over 1.7 billion streams. Then it’s Eilish’s ‘BIRDS OF A FEATHER’, ROSÉ & Bruno Mars’ ‘APT.’, Alex Warren’s ‘Ordinary’ and Bad Bunny’s ‘DtMF’.

Spotify remains the largest streaming platform, making up roughly 31 per cent of the total market share – with a reported 713 million users (up from 626 million in 2024) and 281 million subscribers (up from 246 million in 2024) in more than 180 markets.

However, 2025 has been a rough year for the streaming giant, filled with controversy and calls for boycott.

There were continuing complaints around artist payment, and the platform made headlines for now-former CEO Daniel Ek’s controversial investment into Helsing, a Munich-based company creating drones and artificial intelligence for military operations.

A number of artists boycotted the streaming service, including Massive Attack, who 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.”

Other artists followed suit, and in October, we reported that Spotify users were boycotting the platform over ICE recruitment ads.

As if that wasn’t enough, Spotify gave a platform to AI-generated bands like The Velvet Sundown – something we referred to as an “empty provocation which highlights Spotify’s alleged dubious practices – chiefly, avoiding paying royalties.”

We added: “It highlights the artistically barren desire to generate more money, as well as the hypocrisy of Spotify CEO Daniel Ek – who once said the platform “does not download, create or upload any content, whether generated by artificial intelligence or otherwise.” Provocations are all well and good; but when they’re done at a time when artists are expressing real, legitimate concerns over the ubiquity of AI in a tech-dominated world and the use of their content in the training of AI tools, the stunt comes off as tone-deaf. Worse, morally shameless.”

A Spotify spokesperson told Euronews Culture:”We don’t prioritize or benefit financially from music created using AI tools. All tracks are created, owned, and uploaded by licensed third parties”.

Still, hardly seems in line with their announced crack down on AI, with the company claiming that they were removing 75 million tracks and targeting impersonators.

Here is Spotify Wrapped 2025’s Global Charts:

Global Top Artists of 2025:

1. Bad Bunny
2. Taylor Swift
3. The Weeknd
4. Drake
5. Billie Eilish
6. Kendrick Lamar
7. Bruno Mars
8. Ariana Grande
9. Arijit Singh
10. Fuerza Regida

Global Top Songs of 2025:

1. ‘Die With A Smile’ by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars
2. ‘BIRDS OF A FEATHER’ by Billie Eilish
3. ‘APT.’ by ROSÉ and Bruno Mars
4. ‘Ordinary’ by Alex Warren
5. ‘DtMF’ by Bad Bunny
6. ‘back to friends’ by sombr
7. ‘Golden’ by HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI, KPop Demon Hunters Cast
8. ‘luther (with SZA)’ by Kendrick Lamar
9. ‘That’s SO True’ by Gracie Abrams
10. ‘WILDFLOWER’ by Billie Eilish

Global Top Albums of 2025:

1. ‘DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS’ by Bad Bunny
2. ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ by KPop Demon Hunters Cast, HUNTR/X, Saja Boys
3. ‘HIT ME HARD AND SOFT’ by Billie Eilish
4. ‘SOS Deluxe: LANA’ by SZA
5. ‘Short n’ Sweet’ by Sabrina Carpenter
6. ‘MAYHEM’ by Lady Gaga
7. ‘You’ll Be Alright, Kid’ by Alex Warren
8. ‘I’m The Problem’ by Morgan Wallen
9. ‘GNX’ by Kendrick Lamar
10. ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’ by Bad Bunny

Global Top Podcasts of 2025:

1. The Joe Rogan Experience
2. The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
3. The Mel Robbins Podcast
4. Call Her Daddy
5. This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
6. Huberman Lab
7. Crime Junkie
8. Modern Wisdom
9. On Purpose with Jay Shetty
10. The Tucker Carlson Show

Global Top Audiobooks in Premium of 2025:

1. “Fourth Wing” by Rebecca Yarros
2. “Lights Out” by Navessa Allen
3. “Iron Flame” by Rebecca Yarros
4. “A Court of Thorns and Roses” by Sarah J. Maas
5. “A Court of Mist and Fury” by Sarah J. Maas
6. “The House of My Mother” by Shari Franke
7. “The Wedding People” by Alison Espach
8. “A Court of Wings and Ruin” by Sarah J. Maas
9. “Quicksilver” by Callie Hart
10. “Great Big Beautiful Life” by Emily Henry