One of many largest issues that music can present folks is consolation. Activate a favourite tune and it’s a couple of minutes the place you may escape to a spot that you simply already know you like and that makes you cheerful. Perhaps that’s why to this point in 2025, listeners are nonetheless clinging to 2024 in a significant approach.
Luminate, which gives chart information for Billboard, launched its mid-year report right now (July 16), which displays the monitoring interval from January 3 to July 3. Right here’s the listing of the ten most-streamed songs of 2025’s first six months:
1. Kendrick Lamar and SZA — “Luther” (530.4 million on-demand streams)
2. Woman Gaga and Bruno Mars — “Die With A Smile” (421.4 million)
3. Kendrick Lamar — “TV Off” Feat. Lefty Gunplay (370.4 million)
4. Kendrick Lamar — “Not Like Us” (368.0 million)
5. Drake — “Nokia” (326.3 million)
6. Morgan Wallen — “I’m The Downside” (326.3 million)
7. Teddy Swims — “Lose Management” (320.9 million)
8. Shaboozey — “A Bar Tune (Tipsy)” (319.6 million)
9. Alex Warren — “Bizarre” (319.3 million)
10. Billie Eilish — “Birds Of A Feather” (319.1 million)
Within the prime ten, Kendrick Lamar and SZA cleared the path with their 2024 hit. The listing is primarily 2024 hits, really: Solely Drake’s “Nokia,” Morgan Wallen’s “I’m The Downside,” and Alex Warren’s “Bizarre” have been launched this yr.
Warren’s “Bizarre,” although, is beginning to carve out its spot as maybe the yr’s largest tune because it spends a sixth week at No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart.
