Apple Music Replay 2025 reveals the year's key trends

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Apple Music is kicking off its new year-end review season with Apple Music Replay 2025. This feature provides a clear overview of the past year in music, revealing which artists, songs, and genres influenced your listening habits. Replay 2025 expands on these insights, combining personal data, global trends, and new perspectives on Apple Music usage.

Apple Music Replay has been one of the streaming service's most popular features for years. As soon as the new edition is released, users can see how their music year looked, including the number of hours, songs, and artists they listened to. Replay 2025 stays true to this tradition but expands the visualization with additional categories, making personal patterns even clearer. At the same time, Apple Music is further developing the insights for artists and bringing the Replay concept into the real world for the first time in the form of an art exhibition.

Apple Music Replay 2025: Overview of features

Apple Music Replay 2025 summarizes the music year, showing total listening time in minutes, most listened-to artists, personal top genres, and the longest listen streak for a single artist. The familiar Replay playlists will remain available throughout the year, although the December release is considered the highlight.

Three new additional categories have been added, showing personal listening behavior from new perspectives:

Discovery: Artists who received increased attention for the first time last year
Loyalty: Artists to whom people regularly returned
Comebacks: Artists who have reappeared more frequently in rotation after a break.

Replay 2025 is available directly from the Home tab in Apple Music, making it easier to find and share.

Replay 2025 for Artists: Expanded data for musicians

In addition to User Insights, Apple has also updated Replay 2025 for Artists. Musicians and their teams now have access to detailed information, including the number of listeners, top countries and cities, total streamed minutes, and most-listened-to songs. Replay for Artists also displays the number of Shazam identifications, radio airplay, chart positions, and playlist features.

New features include data on audience growth and year-on-year comparisons that visualize the development of individual performance. This provides a better overall picture of reach within Apple Music.

Replay Gallery: Apple Music brings Replay to the real world in 2025

For the first time, Apple Music Replay is being showcased outside the app. To coincide with Miami Art Week, Apple Music presents the Replay Gallery. Inspired by the year's most significant musical moments, the exhibition features multi-format artworks from artists including Angel Otero, Calida Rawles, Devon Turnbull, Gabriel Moses, Henry Taylor, Jeremy Deller, Sara Sadik, and Tommy Malekoff. Bridging the digital and human realms, the gallery invites viewers to explore themes of listening, reflection, and connection through art. For more information, visit apple.co/MiamiArtWeek.

The most played Apple Music songs of the year

With the launch of Apple Music Replay 2025, Apple has released the most-listened-to songs of the year worldwide. The global top five are:

ROSÉ and Bruno Mars, APT.
Kendrick Lamar and SZA, Luther
Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, Die With A Smile
Kendrick Lamar, Not Like Us
Billie Eilish, BIRDS OF A FEATHER

The complete list of the 100 most popular songs is available as a separate Apple Music playlist. The year-end charts track streams from November 1, 2024, to October 31, 2025. As a result, some newly released songs appear late in the list. One example is Taylor Swift's "The Life of a Showgirl," which was less than a month into the tracking period. Apple Music also publishes:

Top 100 lists for the USA and other regions
Top 100 Shazam Songs
Top 100 most-read song lyrics
other global rankings

Apple also shared some interesting facts about listening behavior. K-pop band Demon Hunters' song "Golden" held the number one spot on the Daily Top 100 for 70 consecutive days. This is the longest uninterrupted run at the top since the charts were introduced. Morgan Wallen has twelve songs in the global Top 100, more than any other artist. He even has one song reach number four on the US charts.

Price and Availability

Apple Music Replay 2025 is now available via Apple Music. Apple Music itself costs €10.99 per month for an individual subscription and €16.99 per month for a family subscription. Apple Music is also included in every Apple One plan.

Apple in December 2025: All developments at a glance

The new depth of Apple Music's year in review

Apple Music Replay 2025 provides a comprehensive overview of the past year in music. The combination of personal statistics, new categories, global charts, and expanded artist data reveals the diverse ways music is consumed and the trends that shaped the year. With the Replay Gallery, Apple Music also opens this retrospective to a real audience, creating a direct link between digital music consumption and creative interpretation. Replay 2025 demonstrates the multifaceted nature of a year in music and the role Apple Music plays in understanding this evolution. (Image: Apple)