Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars had the world’s biggest song, with their throwback duet Die With A Smile.

Meanwhile, UK fans chose Alex Warren’s Ordinary as their top track of the year.

• Spotify Wrapped: How is it calculated, and other questions answered

Ordinary, which spent 13 weeks at number one, was one of the only new songs to feature in Spotify’s Top 10 tracks for the UK.

Instead, previous hits by Lola Young, Billie Eilish and Gigi Perez lingered in the charts all year, pushing aside newcomers.

Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club, originally released in 2020, was the fourth most-streamed song of 2025.

Meanwhile, Sabrina Carpenter’s 2024 album Short’n’Sweet was the UK’s most listened to album, propelled by hits such as Taste, Espresso and Please Please Please, but her newer album Man’s Best Friend did not make the top 10.

Spotify Wrapped first launched in 2016, and has grown bigger every year.

It compiles users’ listening habits to discern their most-played songs, favourite artists and top podcasts.

The results are shared in the app, with fans encouraged to share their top tracks on social media.

This year’s offering comes with a bespoke film, highlighting the achievements of British artists like Lola Young (1 billion streams in 2025) and Central Cee (785 million streams of his debut album, Can’t Rush Greatness).

Spotify also creates leaderboards, letting listeners know who is the biggest fan of a particular artist, and even who might be in the “top 0.1 per cent” of their listeners.

But “gamifying” people’s data in this way, can actually change how they listen to music, says Richard Whittle, Professor of artificial intelligence and public policy at the University of Salford.

“Wrapped is an incredibly effective viral marketing tool that turns millions of users into enthusiastic promoters,” he says.

“Many users even adjust their habits throughout the year to engineer a ‘cooler’ Wrapped next time, which shows how powerful the feature has become.”

Rival streaming services including Apple, Amazon Music and YouTube also release their own version of wrapped, tallying their users’ data and creating bespoke playlists of their favourite songs.

Here’s a look at how the services’ audiences differ:

YouTube top songs of 2025 (UK)

1. Rosé and Bruno Mars – APT
2. Alex Warren – Ordinary
3. Huntr/x (KPop Demon Hunters Cast) – Golden
4. Saja Boys (KPop Demon Hunters Cast) – Soda Pop
5. Chrystal – The Days

Spotify top songs of 2025 (UK)

1. Alex Warren – Ordinary
2. Gracie Abrams – That’s So True
3. Lola Young – Messy
4. Chappell Roan – Pink Pony Club
5. Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather

Apple Music top songs of 2025 (UK)

1. Alex Warren – Ordinary
2. Gracie Abrams – That’s So True
3. Rosé and Bruno Mars – APT
4. Lola Young – Messy
5. Chappell Roan – Pink Pony Club

Spotify top albums of 2025 (Global)

1. Bad Bunny – DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
2. K-Pop Demon Hunters cast – K-Pop Demon Hunters OST
3. Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft
4. SZA – SOS Deluxe: Lana
5. Sabrina Carpenter – Short ‘n’ Sweet

Spotify top albums of 2025 (UK)

1. Sabrina Carpenter – Short ‘n’ Sweet
2. Alex Warren – You’ll Be Alright Kid (Chapter 1)
3. K-Pop Demon Hunters cast – K-Pop Demon Hunters OST
4. Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
5. Tate McRae – So Close To What

Shazam’s most searched-for songs of 2025 (UK)

1. Lola Young – Messy
2. Rosé and Bruno Mars – APT
3. Gracie Abrams – That’s So True
4. Chrystal & Notion – The Days (NOTION Remix)
5. Alex Warren – Ordinary