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Why Are So Many Songs From 2024 in the 2025 Year-End Chart?

December 5, 2025

Dec 5, 2025 12:34pm PT Why Are So Many Songs From 2024 in the 2025 Year-End Chart? By Jem Aswad Plus Icon Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music jemaswad Latest Why Are So Many Songs From 2024 in the 2025 Year-End Chart? 16 minutes ago Alex Warren on the Creation of ‘Ordinary’ and His Social-Media Campaign to Make the Song Go Viral 2 days ago Variety Unveils Hitmakers’ Top 25 Songs of 2025: ‘Ordinary,’ ‘Luther’ and More 2 days ago See All Christopher Polk Notice anything unusual about this year’s top hits?

Teddy Swims at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards held at UBS Arena on September 11, 2024 in Elmont, New York

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Yes, more than half of them are from last year.
In 2024, there were 13 songs released that year in the Hitmakers final Top 25, as tallied by our data partner Luminate.
As of Nov.
20, this year’s list includes just seven songs released in 2025, with a whopping 16 from 2024.
In fact, four songs in the 2025 top 10 — Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control” (which actually came out in 2023), Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things,” Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” — were also in the 2024 top 10, and Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” is just outside, at 12.

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Why Are So Many Songs From 2024 in the 2025 Year-End Chart?

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