Morgan Wallen let Taylor Swift have a turn — her first — at No. 1 on Billboard’s year-end Top Streaming Songs Artists chart in 2024, but in 2025, the king took back his crown.
Wallen, who first reigned on the list for the first time in 2023 following a steady incline (No. 4 in 2022, No. 11 in 2021) and dipped to No. 2 in 2024, returns to No. 1 in 2025 on the heels of the release of his fourth album, I’m the Problem, in May.
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The LP topped the Billboard 200 for 12 weeks (and Top Country Albums for even longer; in fact, it hasn’t been toppled from No. 1 yet as of early December 2025) and spurred a trio of No. 1s on the weekly Streaming Songs chart in “Love Somebody,” “I’m the Problem” and “What I Want.” The latter, which features Tate McRae, reigned for six weeks, Wallen’s second-longest ruler after the 19-frame domination of “Last Night” in 2023.
But while “Last Night” was also 2023’s year-end Streaming Songs No. 1, Wallen doesn’t claim the top spot for 2025. In fact, none of the songs from I’m the Problem even reach the top 10.
A look back at the Streaming Songs chart for 2025 would be remiss without a mention of the elephant in the room: songs just stick around longer these days. Streaming hits of yore were capital-S successes, sure, but only the ubiquitous, inescapable, cultural-moment behemoths were the types to hang around on the Streaming Songs chart for even half a year, let alone a year.
But on the final ranking of the 2025 chart year (this year’s parameters were Oct. 26, 2024-Oct. 18, 2025), eight songs had Streaming Songs histories that stretched past 52 weeks. One — Zach Bryan’s 2022 American Heartbreak hit “Something in the Orange” — broke the record for the most time spent on Streaming Songs in its history, now at 153 weeks and counting. A…