2025 Year End Recap processing........................
I gotta give Last.FM credit - they've really ramped up how quickly they process and publish year end lists. Let's look at some numbers, shall we?
All total, I ended the year with 32,992 total scrobbles, an 8% jump from last year. It's the highest total scrobble count since 2020, where I pushed through over 36k scrobbles during the beginning of the pandemic. Those 32k scrobbles came from 14,377 individual tracks, making for 2.29 plays per song. There were 5313 songs with at *least* two plays, meaning there were 9064 that grabbed just one little stream. I do my best to keep tags properly separated, but Spotify has made that difficult with all the remasters and little additions they've thrown on tracks to keep them separated (or together, sometimes...) and properly catalogued. It's a year-round job making sure everything is properly measured... lol
Here's the 30 most played!
Key: #TY. Artist - Song (Last year's ranking)
T30. Avril Lavigne - I Don't Give (NR)
T30. Ghost - Lachryma (new)
T30. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (NR)
T30. White Reaper - Pages| (NR)
T30. Whole Damn Mess - Nothing In The World Feels Better (15)
Here we go again with these ties again. You've got 1 that came out of nowhere, a new song, a couple popular ones that got just enough umph, and a slowly fading former favorite.
29. Talk - Run Away To Mars (8)
This song has gotten fairly consistent play since it was released. It's a great self-loathing anthem with a perfect sing-a-long chorus.
28. Purity Ring - Heartsigh (NR)
Whisk away your heartsigh - bury it in mine... this song will always be somewhere near the most played every year
27. Bush - The Land of Milk and Honey (new)
#9 on the Top 20, another big time release from Bush. Who knew 90s bands like that could resurrect so successfully?
26. Burlap to Cashmere - Anybody Out There? (19)
The most interesting thing for Burlap to Cashmere for me, is that I really wasn't that big of a fan of theirs back in their illustrious heydey, but something happened as an adult that rocketed them back into my consciousness and daily playlists.
25. Bluey - Bluey Theme Song - Extended (NR)
I teach preschool. Bluey is great. The end.
24. VNV Nation - The Farthest Star (NR)
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Any time this song falls out, it always comes back the next year.
23. Turnstile - Light Design (new)
I appreciate the fact that Turnstile, a unique, talented and wonderful rock band, released an album that is universally agreed upon to be the best rock release of 2025. No politics, no label/magazine pushing, just a really great band making really great music.
22. Staple - Sound of Silence (21)
...not to be confused with Simon and Garfunkel and the many covers that came after them. I sometimes wonder if Staple consciously chose this title or it just happened like that.
21. Whitney Houston - Higher Love - 1990 Original Mix (NR)
Somewhere at the beginning of the year, this became my Friday morning, get jacked to finish the week anthem. And there's 52 Fridays every year... give or take.
20. Red Wanting Blue - Killer (NR)
I think what is more surprising is that this song wasn't in the most played for last year, but they rode a late season wave into 2025 and kept on plugging away.
19. Further Seems Forever - The Sound (13)
If I am being honest with myself, any time I pull up my "ALL TIME" favorite songs playlist, this is usually the song I am looking for.
18. Lady Gaga - How Bad Do U Want Me (new)
I didn't necessarily have Lady Gaga as my popstar to follow in 2025, but I'm not complaining. I still think she's great. #3 on the Top 20 this year.
17. Gin Blossoms - Until I Fall Away (NR)
A melancholy throwback that rips right into me and works when I'm only feeling decent as well. I'd love to see Gin Blossoms again live.
16. A Tiger Made Of Lightning - better parts of broken things (new)
ATMOL keeps pumping out solid material and have truly made a tremendous impact on the Ohio landscape in just a few short years. Color me impressed. #4 on the Top 20.
15. Novelists - Say My Name (new)
#5 on the Top 20 - I'm wondering if this is going to be a new band that I really enjoy now that they have a new vocalist.
14. Pinkfong - Baby Shark (NR)
Did I mention that I teach preschool? Yeah?
13. INXS - Don't Change (NR)
I don't really know? This is a really good song, and I enjoyed yelling DONT CHANGE A THING FOR ME every time it came through my speakers. I've just never really spent a lot of time with INXS.
12. Parry Gripp - Raining Tacos (NR)
Okay, so yes, I teach preschool, but I actually really enjoy this song haha who doesn't want to open their mouth, close their eyes and catch tacos raining from the sky??
11. Michelle Branch - All You Wanted (NR)
This is another one that cycles in every couple of years, clubbing away at high school Jester and reminding me why I loved Michelle so much back then.
10. Whitney Houston - How Will I Know (NR)
This is the headline song off my "Pumped" playlist, and it's hard to pass up playing this song when I want to turn my mood around or have a great day at work.
9. The Classic Crime - Alone in the City (2)
Not a dramatic slide back, from 1 to 2 to 9 in three years - actually I'd say it's more impressive that this song has stuck around. I don't really see it falling too terribly far, either.
8. Boston - If You Were In Love (NR)
When Tom Scholz decided to recruit a female vocalist to Boston, he did us all an amazing favor. Even though Kimberly Dahme isn't with the band any more, man, her contributions are outstanding.
7. The Devil Wears Prada - For You (new)
This song came out late and ripped me to shreds. It ripped my neck to shreds with headbanging, too. #2 on the Top 20, and since they released this record so late in the year, they might be re-appearing on this list (and the Top 20) again in 2026.
6. Shinedown - If You Only Knew (6)
It's a shame that Shinedown's newest album was garbage and politically tone-deaf. I rather enjoy their earlier offerings and would love to eventually see them live, but I can't get behind their foolishness.
5. Cold - When Angels Fly Away (4)
When am I not listening to this song??
4. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - The Dark of the Sun (23)
The guitar tone on this album is one of my all-time favorites, but this song really wasn't in my orbit until the eclipse in 2024. Since then... BOOM. It's overtaken all other Tom Petty offerings.
3. Elevation Rhythm - Goodbye Yesterday (new)
There was a certain point where it was a given that this song would be in the Top 5 most played, it was just a matter of how far up it would travel. Sometimes it's a new song that makes the most played, sometimes it's a throwback. This, of course, was #1 on the Top 20.
2. Exile - Kiss You All Over (NR)
Of all the "where did this song come from" vibes in 2025, nothing was more played and more bizarre that this one. I mean I really, really really don't know what propelled it to the top. I had streamed it all of TWICE in the last 6 years before catching the fever early this year. I have a concrete memory of dancing around the infant room holding one of my kiddos as she giggled to this one.
1. LØLØ - wish i was a robot (1)
New LOLO album drops this spring. Will the old be unseated? Will she carry her momentum from the last 3 years? We shall see!
Tomorrow I'll post the top artists. Thanks Last.FM, Spotify, Pandora, YouTube, and especially to The Universal Scrobbler and OpenScrobbler for helping me keep track of all this.
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