Spotify Wrapped 2025: Arijit Singh Tops India’s Charts Again As Romance And I-Pop Dominate The Year

Spotify rolled out its annual Wrapped experience on Thursday, offering users a deeper and more interactive look at their year in music and podcasts. The 2025 edition, the platform’s seventh in India, returns with fan-favourite features alongside nearly a dozen new storytelling formats designed to make the experience more immersive and personalised than ever.

Wrapped 2025 highlights the continued rise of I-Pop in India, with artists like Aditya Rikhari, Kushagra, Faheem Abdullah and Jasleen Royal once again claiming top spots across charts. Romance remained the country’s most-consumed mood, with love ballads making up all 10 tracks of the Top Songs list. On the podcast front, Indian listeners kept their attention locked on horror, true crime and self-help creators, including Raj Shamani, Khooni Monday, and The Ranveer Show (Hindi).

Music Trends: Arijit Singh Tops for the Seventh Year

Arijit Singh retained his crown as India’s most-streamed artist on Spotify for the seventh consecutive year. He was followed by Pritam and Shreya Ghoshal, with A.R. Rahman and Anirudh Ravichander rounding out the top five.

Sachet–Parampara’s Raanjhan from Do Patti emerged as India’s most-streamed track of 2025, crossing 246 million streams. With romance ruling once again, the country’s top songs also included Kushagra’s Finding Her, Tanishk Bagchi and Faheem Abdullah’s Saiyaara, and Aditya Rikhari’s Sahiba.

Soundtracks continued to dominate album listening. Tanishk Bagchi’s Saiyaara became the year’s most-streamed album, followed by Mithoon’s Aashiqui 2 and Manan Bhardwaj’s ANIMAL.

Podcast Listening: Creator-Led Voices Stay on Top

Indian listeners once again favoured homegrown podcast creators across genres. Figuring Out with Raj Shamani led the country’s most-streamed podcasts, with The Horror Show by Khooni Monday and The Desi Crime Podcast following closely. The Ranveer Show (Hindi), The Stories of Mahabharata, and Pretkotha also ranked among the top 10.

An Expanded, More Interactive Wrapped Experience

Users can now access their personalised 2025 Wrapped exclusively on the Spotify mobile app. This year’s experience introduces flexible viewing controls, new storytelling formats and enhanced interactivity.

Refreshed features include Top Genres, the interactive Top Song Quiz, a month-by-month Top Artist Sprint, and a playlist of users' Top Songs 2025 , complete with play counts for all 100 tracks.

New additions include Listening Age, Top Albums, a global Fan Leaderboard, personalised Listening Archive reports powered by AI, and Wrapped Clubs that categorise users into six listening styles. Spotify is also introducing Wrapped Party, a multiplayer feature that turns listening data into a live competition among friends.

Global Highlights: Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga Lead 2025

Globally, Bad Bunny reclaimed the title of Spotify’s Top Artist with more than 19.8 billion streams, while Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ Die With A Smile topped global song charts with over 1.7 billion streams. Bad Bunny also secured the year’s most-streamed album with DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.The Joe Rogan Experience remained the world’s most-streamed podcast for the sixth year running.

Full global and India trends are available on Spotify’s Wrapped hub and the platform’s For the Record blog.