Global Music Streams Hit 5 Trillion in 2025—With Oldies, Christian, and AI Music Leading the Charge

Streaming completely changed the way we listened to music, and it’s only getting more popular.

Listeners worldwide streamed a record-setting 5.1 trillion times in 2025, according to a year-end report released by analytics company Luminate. That’s 9.6% more than in 2024. In the US, users streamed 1.4 trillion times, which is also an increase of 4.6% from the previous year’s numbers.

The report also offered some insight into users’ listening habits. The numbers indicate a preference for older music, with less than half of streams—43%—coming from songs released between 2021 and 2025. Despite this, a large number of those total streams belong to some of the year’s biggest releases—The Life of a Showgirl by Taylor Swift and I’m the Problem by Morgan Wallen. Both had over 5 million album equivalent units, which combines both sales and streaming numbers.

A few genres also attracted some new listeners. Christian music in particular enjoyed a spike in popularity in the US, with an increase of 18.5% from 2024, while rock saw an increase of 6.4%.

“Rock is the largest growth genre this year, meaning it grew its share of the streaming pie the most,” Jaime Marconette, vice president of music insights and industry relations for Luminate, said in a statement. “Though rock streaming in general leans catalog (tracks older than 18 months), the genre posted the second highest total of new current streams this year.”

Streams of Latin music also increased by 5.2%. Many of those streams can be attributed to Bad Bunny, who had 5.3 billion streams alone, accounting for 4.38% of all Latin streams.

AI artists also received a high number of streams—nearly 300 million, in fact. Xania Monet leads them, with 125 million streams. Monet is also notable for being the first AI act to debut on a Billboard radio chart.

Top 10 Songs Streamed Globally in 2025

1. Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, “Die With a Smile” — 2.858 billion
2. HUNTR/X (Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami) from Kpop Demon Hunters, “Golden” — 2.430 billion
3. Alex Warren, “Ordinary” — 2.403 billion
4. Rosé and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” — 2.236 billion
5. Billie Eilish, “Birds of a Feather” — 2.133 billion
6. Bad Bunny, “DtMF” — 1.701 billion
7. Kendrick Lamar and SZA, “Luther” — 1.672 billion
8. Benson Boone, “Beautiful Things” —1.630 billion
9. sombr, “Back to Friends” — 1.587 billion
10. Gracie Abrams, “That’s So True” — 1.544 billion

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