TikTok has revealed the songs, artists, and music trends that have dominated 2025, with tracks by Jess Glynne, Radiohead, Doechii and more leading the way.
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The social media platform has always had a strong tie to the music world, helping launch the careers of numerous emerging artists, allowing users to easily discover and share new material, and sparking dance trends that give a new lease of life to some tracks.
Now, with the end of the year approaching, TikTok has revealed the artists and songs that have performed the best among users over the past 12 months, and announced that Jess Glynne’s hit song ‘Hold My Hand’ is the platform’s UK Song Of 2025.
The track got a new surge of popularity after its initial release a decade ago, when it featured on the advert for the airline company Jet2, and eventually led to the ‘Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday’ meme.
The viral trend saw people share videos of unexpected and outrageous moments that they captured on camera, and lay over the audio from the advert, including the Glynne song and the company’s tagline, over the top.
Speaking about the resurgence of the song on TikTok, the singer said that it is “an incredibly special song to me”, and seeing “the Jet2 campaign has brought a really fun, light-hearted twist to the song.”
“Seeing it become TikTok’s song of 2025 10 years after its release has been incredible,” she added. “It breathed new life into it, and I’m so grateful to see a wave of a new audience now connect with it and learn more about the song, and me. I am incredibly grateful for the journey this song is on.”
Also on the list of the Top 10 Songs Of The Year is the classic Radiohead track ‘Let Down’ which also got a new lease of life after going viral on TikTok and was introduced to a new generation of fans as the iconic rockers headed out for their first UK and European tour dates in seven years.
‘Messy’ by Lola Young remained on the list after going viral in 2024, and other tracks on the Top 10 included Charli XCX’s ‘Girl, so confusing’ featuring Lorde, PinkPantheress’ ‘Illegal’ (which was also NME’s song of the year), and the 60’s classic track ‘Pretty Little Baby’ by the late Connie Francis. The latter was used on the app over 28.4million times, and used in videos that all together gathered around 68.6billion views.
TikTok’s UK Top 10 Songs of the Year 2025
‘Hold My Hand’ – Jess Glynne
‘Let Down’ – Radiohead
‘Pretty Little Baby’ – Connie Francis
‘Sparks’ – Coldplay
‘Headlock’ – Imogen Heap
‘Breakin’ Dishes’ – Rihanna
‘Love Me Not’ – Ravyn Lenae
‘Girl, so confusing featuring Lorde’ – Charli xcx
‘Illegal’ – PinkPantheress
‘Messy’ – Lola Young
Connie Francis’ song also topped the Top 20 Global Songs on TikTok in 2025, and that list also included tracks from Black Eyed Peas, Gracie Abrams, Sombr, Billie Eilish, and Doechii.
On the list of TikTok’s Most-Saved Music of 2025 via ‘Add to Music App’, it was revealed that over 3billion songs were saved to playlists via the app, and Taylor Swift was the artist who had the most saves due to her releasing ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ album earlier this year.
The song with the most saves was Sombr’s ‘Back To Friends’, which was used in 7.7million creations on TikTok, and the most saved album of the year was Tate McRae‘s ‘So Close To What’, which was released in February.
TikTok’s Top 20 Global Songs of 2025:
‘Pretty Little Baby’ – Connie Francis
‘Hold My Hand’ – Jess Glynne
‘Rock That Body’ – Black Eyed Peas’
‘Azul’ – J. Balvin
‘Dame Un Grrr’ – Fantomel x Kate Linn
‘Apt.’ – ROSE and Bruno Mars
‘Te Queria Ver’ – Aleman and Neton Vega
‘Stecu Stecu’ – Faris Adam
‘Anxiety’ – Doechii
‘Sailor Song’ – Gigi Perez
‘Share It To The Max (FLY) (Remix)’ – MOLIY, Silent Addy, Skillibeng, Shenseea
‘Ocean Eyes’ – Billie Eilish
‘No One Noticed’ – The Marias
‘Back To Friends’ – Sombr
‘Sparks’ – Coldplay
‘That’s So True’ – Gracie Abrams
‘Let Down’ – Radiohead
‘Suave’ – El Alfa
‘My Darling’ – Chella
‘We Hug Now’ – Sydney Rose
When it comes to dance trends, it was Doechii’s song ‘Anxiety’ that topped the board – having sparked a dance craze that made a nod to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and generated 10.4million creations on the platform (including from Will Smith and Doechii). As for songwriter of the year, the title was awarded to EJAE, who is a New York City-based songwriter, vocalist, and artist and shot to global fame after contributing her voice to the KPop Demon Hunters film.
Her first big breakthrough as a songwriter came in 2019 when she co-wrote ‘Psycho’ for Red Velvet, and she then went on to work with the likes of aespa, TWICE, LE SSERAFIM, and Fifty Fifty, before co-writing many of the songs for the hit Netflix film, including the hit single ‘Golden’.
For Radiohead, news that their song ‘Let Down’ was getting a new lease of life was confirmed earlier this year. The track was released as a promotional single in 1997, and appears on Thom Yorke and co’s third studio album ‘OK Computer’.
By August, the song had entered the Billboard Hot 100 following the resurgence on TikTok, and sat at Number 91 position of the chart.
The band would later talk about the feat in an interview with The Sunday Times, and frontman Thom Yorke said: “I find that especially bizarre. Because I fought tooth and nail for it not to be on the record, but Ed O’Brien was, like, ‘If it’s not, I’m leaving.’”
“Still, I was astonished,” O’Brien added. “So I told my kids, who are 18 and 21, and they said, ‘What do you expect? Teenagers are depressed. It’s depressing music!’”
As for Jess Glynne, the new finding shared by TikTok follow on from ‘Hold My Hand’ being named by the platform as the “song of the summer”, and searches for “Jess Glynne tickets” rising 272 per cent month-on-month from June to July thanks to the meme.
TikTok’s findings about music trends comes just under a week since Spotify dropped Wrapped 2025 – revealing the most listened to songs, artists, albums and more from the last 12 months.
The results for that were vastly different to that on the social media platform, with Spotify finding that Globally, Bad Bunny was the top artist for the fourth time – having already scored the title in 2020, 2021 and 2022 previously.
It also found that the top song globally for 2025 was Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ ‘Die With A Smile’, which got more 1.7billion streams, and Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Short n’ Sweet‘ was the most-streamed album in the UK, ahead of Alex Warren’s ‘You’ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1) and the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack.
Find all of the results for Spotify here.