The Best-Selling Albums and Songs of 2025
Wallen swept all three artist titles; Swift still took the year’s biggest album with an October release.
Artists of the Year
Top 10 Albums of 2025 Billboard 200
- 1The Life of a ShowgirlTaylor Swift
- 2I’m the ProblemMorgan Wallen
- 6The Tortured Poets DepartmentTaylor Swift
- 7One Thing at a TimeMorgan Wallen
Partial list. Billboard’s full 2025 year-end Billboard 200 sits behind a paid data licence, so only the positions confirmed against a free, named source appear here. The remaining places are left out rather than guessed.
Top 10 Songs of 2025 Hot 100
- 1Die with a SmileLady Gaga and Bruno Mars
- 2LutherKendrick Lamar and SZA
- 3A Bar Song (Tipsy)Shaboozey
- 4Lose ControlTeddy Swims
- 5Birds of a FeatherBillie Eilish
- 6Beautiful ThingsBenson Boone
- 7OrdinaryAlex Warren
- 8I Had Some HelpPost Malone ft. Morgan Wallen
- 9APT.Rosé and Bruno Mars
- 10Pink Pony ClubChappell Roan
What the 2025 Charts Show
- Morgan Wallen swept all three artist titles in 2025: combined, albums and singles.
- Taylor Swift placed 2 albums inside the year-end top 10 — a share of the chart almost nobody manages.
- 2 albums held their top-10 places from 2024: The Tortured Poets Department and One Thing at a Time — the streaming era’s long tail at work.
How the 2025 charts were compiled
Every position here is a chart placement — measured sales, radio airplay and streaming across Billboard’s tracking year — not an editorial ranking. Albums come from the year-end Billboard 200, songs from the year-end Hot 100.
Billboard’s tracking year runs from roughly late October to mid-October rather than January to December, which is why a late-autumn release can win the following year and why a song can appear on two consecutive year-end lists.
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