Spotify Reveals Global Top K-Pop Artists and Songs of 2025

Spotify has unveiled its 2025 Wrapped K-Pop lists, highlighting the artists, songs, and fandom trends that defined the year.

Listeners streamed over 181 billion minutes of K-Pop, with the genre gaining popularity worldwide, particularly in the United States, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Brazil, Mexico, Thailand, Taiwan, India, and South Korea.

Top Artists: BTS claimed the #1 spot as the most-streamed K-Pop artist of 2025, followed by Stray Kids (#2), JENNIE (#3), ROSÉ (#4), and HUNTR/X (#5). Other notable mentions included TWICE, BLACKPINK, Jung Kook, ENHYPEN, and LISA.

Top Songs: ROSÉ and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” topped the list of most-streamed K-Pop songs, with HUNTR/X’s “Golden” (#2), Jimin’s “Who” (#3), Jin’s “Don’t Say You Love Me” (#4), and JENNIE’s “like JENNIE” (#5) rounding out the top five.

Spotify’s Wrapped demonstrates K-Pop’s global influence and the power of its fandom, with both artists and listeners shaping the cultural soundtrack of 2025.

Global Top K-Pop Artists of 2025

1. BTS
2. Stray Kids
3. JENNIE
4. ROSÉ
5. HUNTR/X
6. TWICE
7. BLACKPINK
8. Jung Kook
9. ENHYPEN
10. KATSEYE
11. Jimin
12. LE SSERAFIM
13. Jin
14. LISA
15. SEVENTEEN
16. NewJeans
17. aespa
18. j-hope
19. TOMORROW X TOGETHER
20. Saja Boys

Global Top K-Pop Songs of 2025

1. “APT.” by ROSÉ, Bruno Mars
2. “Golden” by HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI, KPop Demon Hunters Cast
3. “Who” by Jimin
4. “Don’t Say You Love Me” by Jin
5. “like JENNIE” by JENNIE
6. “Your Idol” by Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, KEVIN WOO, samUIL Lee, KPop Demon Hunters Cast
7. “Soda Pop” by Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, KEVIN WOO, samUIL Lee, KPop Demon Hunters Cast
8. “Seven (feat. Latto)” by Jung Kook, Latto
9. “How It’s Done” by HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI, KPop Demon Hunters Cast
10. “Gabriela” by KATSEYE
11. “What It Sounds Like” by HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI, KPop Demon Hunters Cast
12. “JUMP”  by BLACKPINK
13. “Winter Ahead (with PARK HYO SHIN)” by V, Park Hyo Shin
14. “Free” by Rumi, Jinu, EJAE, Andrew Choi, KPop Demon Hunters Cast
15. “Takedown” by HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI, KPop Demon Hunters Cast
16. “Gnarly” by KATSEYE
17. “Touch” by KATSEYE
18. “3D (feat. Jack Harlow)” by Jung Kook, Jack Harlow
19. “Born Again (feat. Doja Cat & RAYE)” by LISA, Doja Cat, RAYE
20. “toxic till the end” by ROSÉ