Apple has officially launched Apple Music Replay 2025, its annual year-end recap feature designed to compete with popular offerings like Spotify Wrapped. This updated experience provides users with a personalized retrospective of their year in music, showcasing their most streamed songs, artists, and albums.
For 2025, Apple Music Replay introduces several new sections to offer deeper insights into user listening habits. These include "Discovery," which highlights new artists users explored throughout the year; "Loyalty," celebrating artists users consistently returned to; and "Comebacks," spotlighting musicians who re-entered users' regular rotation.
Beyond these new categories, users can access a comprehensive dashboard displaying their total listening minutes, the number of unique artists they've discovered, their longest artist streak, and favorite genres, among other detailed statistics. This personalized Replay dashboard can be found via the Home tab on the Apple Music streaming service.
The Replay experience extends beyond the annual summary. Users can also delve into monthly Replay highlights and access yearly summaries from every year they've subscribed to Apple Music. A special "Replay All Time" playlist allows subscribers to revisit their most played songs since joining the service.
Artists on Apple Music will also benefit from enhanced Replay insights, gaining access to new metrics such as listenership growth and year-over-year performance summaries. Standard metrics like total listeners, countries, cities, and total minutes streamed remain available, providing valuable data for their careers.
In a separate announcement, Apple revealed the top songs on Apple Music for 2025. ROSALÍA and Bruno Mars' "APT." claimed the top spot, followed by Kendrick Lamar and SZA's "luther." Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars secured third place with "Die With A Smile." Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" was fourth, and Billie Eilish's "Birds of a Feather" rounded out the top five.
The rollout of Apple Music Replay 2025 follows closely after YouTube Music's 2025 Recaps and coincides with Amazon Music's release of its own year-end summaries. These early launches by competitors appear to be a strategic move to preempt Spotify Wrapped, aiming to capture early social media buzz around year-end music sharing.
