Wrapped 2025

I use an mp3 player as my main listening format. Since this has been the general trend for the last four years, my Wrapped is at best a cut down amalgamation of my listening habits and at worst a highlight reel of songs that played more than four times at a party. This year is turning out to look more like the latter than the former, but regardless I love looking at my stats. Since 2017, I do not look at my full 100 song playlist, and instead I work through it blind (disregarding the first five songs) and note them as I make progress. I will be doing this again, the ninth iteration, I will be adding footnotes to this page if I need to explain myself, defend myself, or expand on something as I go along. I hope you enjoy.

top songs of 2025 (in order)

  1. Chappell roan - the subway1
  2. Jane remover - JRJRJR
  3. 12 Rods - Red
  4. AJR - Betty
  5. Bejalvin - SPEEDUP
  6. Joey Trap - pour some more2
  7. MGMT - Mother Nature
  8. Jane Remover - Magic I Want You
  9. Bejalvin - Touch Grass
  10. Bejalvin - Gas station
  11. Steve Roach - Quiet Friend3
  12. Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me4
  13. American Fooball - This Summer Ends
  14. Spandau Ballet - True
  15. The Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize5
  16. Matthew Sweet - Get Older
  17. Bejalvin - in line
  18. Boards of Canada - Olson
  19. Steve roach - dreaming and sleep
  20. Claire M Singer - Turadh
  21. Quadeca - godstained
  22. David Bowie - soul love
  23. Fripp + Eno - Evensong
  24. The human league - don’t you want me6
  25. Taylor swift - the outside
  26. Geese - taxes
  27. Bejalvin - pass out
  28. Girly girl productions - notes app girls!7
  29. M Sage - tender of the land
  30. Books of the Bible - lamentations 38
  31. Celer - you and I can’t ever change9
  32. Quadeca - Monday
  33. BTMI - the first time I ever met sanawon
  34. Delia Derbyshire - falling
  35. Jeff Pearce - by moonlight
  36. Ye - cousins10
  37. The January 6th Choir - Justice for All
  38. Chief Keef - Love Sosa
  39. Jordi savall - shofars call
  40. William basinski - dlp 1.1
  41. Steve roach - A deeper Silence11
  42. Steve roach - sleep and dreaming
  43. Steve roach - quiet cannon
  44. Eminem - Stan
  45. Lorde - hard feelings / loveless
  46. Jane remover - movies for guys
  47. Ida - treasure chest12
  48. Fripp + eno - wind on water
  49. Ö - St Henri
  50. Eminem - the real slim shady
  51. Kelly Moran - echo in the field
  52. Autechre - overand 13
  53. MGMT - Bubblegum Dog
  54. Black Eyed Peas - Imma Be
  55. Area 3 - P-plunky
  56. DCFC - expo 86
  57. Lola Young - Messy
  58. J-Kwon - tipsy
  59. Eldrich Anisette - Dissection of Silence
  60. Wheatus - teenage dirtbag
  61. Autechre - Outh9x
  62. Kim Gordon - Bye Bye14
  63. Jane remover - angels in camo
  64. Ween - the Argus 15
  65. Jane remover - search party
  66. Mike Will made it - 23
  67. Wormy - country radio
  68. Jets to Brazil - Chinatown
  69. M Sage - wading the plain
  70. Soulja Boy - Turn my Swag On
  71. Caroline Polachek - Ocean of Tears
  72. Jane Remover - Fadeoutz
  73. Wire - Map Ref 41°N 93°W
  74. Amulets - myriads
  75. Wormy - Gatorade
  76. M Sage - witch grass
  77. Alvvays - after the earthquake
  78. Waxahatchee - burns out at midnight
  79. Pink Floyd - green is the colour
  80. Taylor Swift - Fearless
  81. Chief Keef - Jesus
  82. Olivia Rodrigo - So American
  83. Books of the Bible - Lamentations 4
  84. Andrew Prahlow - the museum
  85. The Beach Boys - Please Let me Wonder
  86. The Beatles - Here There and Everywhere
  87. Otto Luening - Low Speed
  88. Amulets - lifelike
  89. Rheostatics - the inland sea16
  90. Doechii - denial is a river

day 1: songs 1 - 30
day 2: songs 31 - 41
day 3: songs 42 - 69
day 4: songs 70 - 100



conclusions

footnotes

1 I've been mixed on chappell Roan over the last couple of years. I saw her live (well, honestly I was in the merch line for most of it) on tour with olivia rodrigo in 2024. I think she has great moments, but the album did not really pull me in as a single piece. This song and Good Luck Babe, though, are shining moments of 2020s pop. Not what it would be if my mp3 listens counted, but a good enough summation of my year.

2 About two months ago, I put my phone on my dresser and went upstairs to get ready to leave or something, and this song had just released so I let it loop a few times. This is a testament to just how few times I have heard these songs. This accident was a top ten moment.

3 Top ambient song of the year according to wrapped. To be honest, I have almost no reccolection of the times I did listen to this on spotify. my assumption is it was earlier on in the year. hard to complain, it is a perfect song.

4 The first taylor swift to shine through makes sense. I think my most listened if all mediums were considered would have been Mirrorball or Timeless, but this works too.

5 Literally no reccolection of playing this. Last.fm says that I played this on two occasions, both between 12:30-1:30am on wednesday nights in february. Weird how lined up this is.

6 Another one with no reccolection of being played.

7 Obviously I am anti-AI, but girly girl productions pushed its way through the noise. I think it is so deeply satirical that I am willing to let it slide, and also genuinely hilarious, but generally I think making a satire of a medium by engaging in the medium almost always falls flat.

8 A really funny one to put on at gatherings, mostly because of the sheer torture of Lamentations 3:16-18. I expected to see it here, but had forgotten about it while listening.

9 I only listened to this once but spotify picked up on me starting and stopping it multiple times throughout the evenings.

10 This footnote is going to be about songs 36-39,a truly unbelievable setup. More out of curiosity than enjoyment (although, I kinda like cousins, at least for its grim confessionalism) these songs sit next to each other in complete disbelief. I am the only person with all four of them. The Shofar call I played to ring in the jewish new year is the icing on the cake though, 3 songs away from the most prolofic neo nazi in popular culture. Unbelievable setup here. Laughing all the way to the disintegration loops

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12 This was my girlfriends top spotify artist of the year, so its nice seeing them here. I did love treasure chest, but August Again or route 95 were probably more listened. Maybe even Shotgun

13 This is the first of many ambient autechre songs that I played during ambient septmeber, featured on a playlist of loosies from various non ambient albums. I do not really recall these songs individually, but they are nice backdrops for the month.

14 This was my top song (and SOTY) for 2024, nice to see its shining face here.

15 Nothing Like The Argus playing in the car to remind you of why ween is the greatest band ever. Sad to see them not make the top 5 this year.

16 The latest addition on the playlist (most listens were in mid october). Also my highest rheos song which is a surprise. Well, my Introducing happiness era came at a time away from spotify. Maybe I should not be so surprised

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