OnRadioNow BBC ARCHIVE · SINCE 2006

Years / 2025

◦ THE YEAR IN MUSIC

2025

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488,511 plays logged across the four stations in 2025.

Radio 1 148,327 plays in 2025

TOP SONGS

1

WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! RAYE

×376

2

Pink Pony Club Chappell Roan

×374

3

No Broke Boys Disco Lines & Tinashe

×344

4

Blessings (feat. Clementine Douglas) Calvin Harris

×343

5

Manchild Sabrina Carpenter

×338

6

Dior MK & Chrystal

×334

7

Messy Lola Young

×325

8

Dirty Cash (Money Talks) PAWSA & Adventures Of Stevie V

×323

9

The Days (NOTION Remix) Chrystal

×323

10

Sapphire Ed Sheeran

×318

TOP ARTISTS

01

Sabrina Carpenter

1339

02

1222

03

1202

04

1151

05

1113

06

1071

07

957

08

945

Radio 2 97,098 plays in 2025

TOP SONGS

1

Messy Lola Young

×213

2

Ordinary Alex Warren

×180

3

Pink Pony Club Chappell Roan

×167

4

Love Me Not Ravyn Lenae

×162

5

The Fate of Ophelia Taylor Swift

×143

6

WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! RAYE

×136

7

Azizam Ed Sheeran

×136

8

Sapphire Ed Sheeran

×131

9

Manchild Sabrina Carpenter

×131

10

Nice To Meet You Myles Smith

×125

TOP ARTISTS

01

612

02

488

03

Sabrina Carpenter

478

04

469

05

450

06

448

07

430

08

415

1Xtra 133,192 plays in 2025

TOP SONGS

1

Shake It To The Max (Fly) (Remix) (feat. Skillibeng & Shenseea) Moliy & Silent Addy

×503

2

×447

3

×425

4

MUTT Leon Thomas

×402

5

Dark Thoughts Lil Tecca

×365

6

do what i say kwn

×343

7

Victory Lap Fred again.., Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax

×330

8

DENIAL IS A RIVER Doechii

×326

9

Crazy Love Tion Wayne, LeoStayTrill & MJ Cole

×325

10

The Greatest Bend Over Yung Bredda

×315

TOP ARTISTS

01

1559

02

1009

03

1002

04

977

05

881

06

866

07

839

08

823

6 Music 109,894 plays in 2025

TOP SONGS

1

It's Amazing to Be Young Fontaines D.C.

×86

2

Spike Island Pulp

×82

3

Know Yourself Kae Tempest

×82

4

Take A Sexy Picture Of Me CMAT

×82

5

Body Language (feat. Sasha Keable) Ezra Collective

×81

6

Bloom Baby Bloom Wolf Alice

×80

7

Nimerudi Goat & MC Yallah

×78

8

Get Loose Cheetah & Nia Archives

×77

9

Running / Planning CMAT

×73

10

catch these fists Wet Leg

×73

TOP ARTISTS

01

450

02

394

03

380

04

359

05

328

06

326

07

303

08

302