After giving the crown a momentary rest, Puerto Rico’ s Bad Bunny was once again the most listened to artist of the year on Spotify globally, the Swedish platform revealed Wednesday with data from 2025.
In addition, the ballad ‘Die With A Smile’, by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, was the most successful song worldwide.
Bad Bunny is an old hand at the Spotify throne worldwide as his tracks were the most played between 2020 and 2022, at which point he was taken over for two consecutive years by Taylor Swift. The release of his album ‘DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS’ in 2025, which has been the most listened to album worldwide, has had a lot to do with him regaining the crown.
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Behind the Puerto Rican, with 19.8 billion plays in the last year, is Swift, who also released an album this year, ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’. The podium is closed by the Canadian The Weeknd, ahead of his compatriot Drake and the American Billie Eilish.
Among the songs, after the 1.7 billion plays of Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ hit, are, in this order: ‘Birds of a feather’ by Billie Eilish; ‘APT.’ by ROSÉ and Bruno Mars; ‘Ordinary’ by Alex Warren and, in fifth place, the title track of Bad Bunny’s latest album.
Behind this work, the silver for the most successful album went to the unexpected phenomenon of the soundtrack to the Netflix animated movie ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ and Billie Eilish’s ‘Hit Me Hard And Soft’, which was actually released the previous year, Agencia EFE reported.
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