As we talked about in our midyear albums list, one of many greatest themes of 2025 on the Billboard charts has largely been about smash 2024 hits that refuse to die — songs by the likes of Benson Boone, Shaboozey and a record-setting Teddy Swims which are nonetheless populating the highest 10 a 12 months after initially climbing there. In the meantime, the previous is now frequently impinging upon the current, as resurgent catalog Sizzling 100 hits from Coldplay, Lorde and Charli XCX this 12 months will attest to.
However the future can also be beginning to be heard from. Unhealthy Bunny and Playboi Carti launched boundary-pushing albums and littered the Sizzling 100 within the course of. Sombr and Ravyn Lenae parlayed TikTok virality into streaming success and now a rising radio embrace, demonstrating themselves as possible stars in improvement. And despite the fact that she’s executed all of it with songs technically launched earlier than 2025, Doechii established herself as one of many brightest and quickest-rising skills in all of music. In the meantime, not too long ago minted A-listers Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan have saved their 2024 momentum rolling, and pop icons Drake and Girl Gaga reminded us how they initially turned stars: on the backs of unimaginable hit singles.
Discover all these thrilling artists and a few of their new signature songs under, in our checklist of the 50 finest songs of 2025 thus far — songs which both had been launched or peaked on the Billboard charts this 12 months. (Songs that already made our 2024 list, like “Pink Pony Membership” and “Die With a Smile,” weren’t eligible.) Headphones on, let’s dive in.