TikTok has revealed its itemizing of the most used songs, and hottest artists, primarily based on TikTok engagement in 2025, with all these earworm, meme soundtrack tunes making an look within the high lists.
Sure, they’re all right here, Taylor Swift, Doechii, KATSEYE, and extra.
Although the primary observe on TikTok in 2025 was a little bit of shock:
“Fairly Little Child” by Connie Francis was initially launched in 1962, but it surely’s had a rejuvenation on TikTok, the place it’s turn into the soundtrack to many, many video clips.
Certainly, TikTok says that “Fairly Little Child” was used over 28.4 million instances within the app this yr alone, “as the right soundtrack for healthful movies that includes household, pets, relationships and flowers, resulting in over 68.6B views.”
TikTok continues to boost consciousness of previous music greats, with Fleetwood Mac additionally getting an enormous enhance in royalties when their 1977 track “Goals” was featured in a viral hit within the app again in 2020 (effectively, file label BMG, which owns the observe, obtained the relative enhance in funds, however both means).
TikTok has additionally been capable of make varied artists achieve big traction by way of tendencies, which has seen it turn into a key consideration for all file labels.
Certainly, you may see its affect on broader music tradition mirrored in its high artists record:
Given the function that the platform now performs in music discovery, and popular culture extra broadly, TikTok’s high tracks and artists listings are price noting, highlighting the cultural impression of the app.
Not less than for now.
TikTok remains to be technically banned within the U.S., and is barely accessible to Individuals proper now as a result of U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed regulatory our bodies to not implement the ban, as a way to give his group extra time to arrange a sell-off deal.
To date, Trump has used government orders to increase TikTok’s dump timeline 4 instances, with the present exclusion interval set to lapse on December sixteenth.
Which may imply that its impression on music tendencies, no less than as they originate from the U.S., could possibly be loads totally different subsequent yr, although the expectation stays that the White Home will work out some deal to maintain TikTok in operation shifting ahead.
However progress has been slower than anticipated, and we’ve heard nearly nothing on a TikTok dump deal since September, when the White Home declared that a deal was all however completed.
It’ll be fascinating to see if TikTok’s high artists change considerably if it does find yourself getting banned within the U.S., although proper now, that is still a much less doubtless consequence.
You may take a look at TikTok’s full record of its high tracks of 2025 right here.
