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<i>Apple Music’s end-of-year charts are based on plays between 1 November 2024 and 31 October 2025.</i> She came, she sprayed her giant confetti cannons and she conquered: Pop’s new CEO Sabrina Carpenter has certainly been a “Busy Woman” in 2025. Summer saw her headlining London’s Hyde Park for two sold-out, glittering nights and she has seven songs in the Top 100 including “Taste”, “Bed Chem” and the first single from <i>Man’s Best Friend</i>, “Manchild”. But Carpenter had stiff competition from a trio of rising British talents. Olivia Dean served timeless soul on “Man I Need” and “Nice to Each Other”, Lola Young’s 2024 anthem to being yourself, “Messy”, continued to mesmerise and Luton’s BRIT Award-scooping Myles Smith enjoyed enduring success with his earworms “Stargazing” and “Nice to Meet You”, both originally released last year. There was also plenty of room for the classics. The appeal of finding The Killers coming out of their cage on “Mr. Brightside” remains undimmed after 22 years, while Fleetwood Mac and Coldplay charted with three songs each. Fuelled by the most headline-grabbing reunion tour of the year, Oasis had three entries, “Wonderwall”, “Don’t Look Back in Anger” and “Live Forever”. And a K-pop curveball came with the Demon Hunters’ crossover, spearheaded by HUNTR/X’s irresistible anthem “Golden”.

The country world feigned surprise when, after three albums of Music Row-indebted songcraft, Taylor Swift formally embraced pop on 2012’s <i>Red</i>. But no one should have been shocked: Any 14-year-old capable of persuading her parents to move from suburban Pennsylvania to Nashville for her career clearly has ambition to burn. And the thrill of following Swift’s rise has been watching her execute it flawlessly, largely because her melodic intelligence is equal to that ambition. Her early, youthful love songs heralded 2010's newly self-possessed <i>Speak Now</i>—which showed off her scathing wit—and evolved into knowing, ironclad pop fare that held its own against boisterous Max Martin production on <i>1989</i>, her fifth album, titled after her birth year. Throughout, her songwriting has blurred the lines between the public and private, burying enough real-life clues (about, say, scarves and Starbucks) to make clear that only Swift can own her narrative, thank you very much, while still retaining a lyrical elegance. Though 2017’s <i>reputation</i> might have been perceived as a gorgeously constructed piece of dramatic theatre—its attendant heroes and villains all real-life characters from Swift's public feuds—all that spectacle proved an attention-grabbing cover for her most romantic album yet. She turned up the romance even more on 2019’s <i>Lover</i>, but it was 2020’s <i>folklore</i> and its companion, <i>evermore</i>—ruminative, relatively lo-fi albums written and recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic—that earned her the Apple Music Award for Songwriter of the Year. She followed those up in 2022 with <i>Midnights</i>, which she wrote and produced with Jack Antonoff, and described as "the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life." In 2023, Swift undertook one of the most ambitious road shows of all time: the multi-year Eras Tour, which saw her presenting new and classic material across more than 100 locales worldwide. It was just one of many reasons she was named Apple Music's Artist of the Year for 2023. Swift returned to the soft, comfortable, bed-like sonics of <i>Midnights</i> for her 11th album, 2024’s <I>THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT</I>. A study in extremes and heightened emotions, the record—which features guest turns from Post Malone and Florence + the Machine—is her most specific, candid and unsparing work to date.

Soul Sisters and California Gurls. This collection brings together great songs from the top of the charts.