Deezer rolled out its year-end listening recap on Monday (December 1), releasing the feature ahead of competing services like Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music.
The Paris-based streaming platform’s “My Deezer Year 2025” mirrors a format made popular by Spotify Wrapped, showing users their top songs, artists, albums and listening time over the past year.
Spotify typically releases its Wrapped feature in early December.
This year’s Deezer recap adopts a romantic comedy theme, with scenes the company describes as a “meet cute” and “happily ever after.”
The recap unfolds across three episodes: “Meet Cute” highlighting newly discovered artists, “Love Triangle” featuring top three artists, and “Happily Ever After” showcasing favorite tracks with a personalized playlist.
This year’s recap differs from last year’s edition, which allowed users to choose between being “roasted” or “hyped up” based on their music preferences.
Users can generate personalized quizzes based on their musical tastes and share results with friends. For the first time, Deezer opened quiz creation to non-subscribers, letting them input their favorite genre, three songs and a top artist to participate.
According to data from Deezer, users globally averaged 122.8 hours of music listening over the past year, streaming more than 691 songs from 402 artists while discovering 357 new tracks. Nearly 12% of subscribers qualified as superfans of one or more artists based on listening patterns, the company said.
Lady Gaga topped Deezer’s global streaming charts for 2025, followed by Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish. The Weeknd and Bad Bunny rounded out the top five.
Azzedine Fall, Director of Music & Culture, Deezer said: “In 2025 we’ve seen many artists experimenting and crossing boundaries between genres in new ways. Rosalía, Bad Bunny, Oklou, and Tyler the Creator all have pushed us into new emotional territories by blending styles that once seemed incompatible with mainstream success.”
“These projects sparked discussion, challenged our expectations, and continued to expand the definition of pop music. Globally, women dominated the charts on Deezer, with Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish in the top three for 2025. They all have delivered creative new projects that resonated with worldwide audiences.”
Meanwhile, APT by Rosé and Bruno Mars ranked as the most-streamed song globally on Deezer, with Lady Gaga’s Die With A Smile in second spot. Bad Bunny’s DeBí TiRAR MáS FOToS led album streams on Deezer worldwide.
“Artificial intelligence has had an enormous impact on the conversations about the future of the music industry and artistry this year, and despite very low streaming numbers some AI-tracks have received some mainstream attention.”
Azzedine Fall, Deezer
Hip-hop took the top spot in terms of genre, followed by pop, rock, electronic and Latin American music. The company’s Music Quiz feature saw Disney-themed quizzes rank first, followed by movies and TV themes.
Fall addressed artificial intelligence’s role in music production, saying: “It’s almost impossible to talk about music in 2025 without mentioning AI.”
“Artificial intelligence has had an enormous impact on the conversations about the future of the music industry and artistry this year, and despite very low streaming numbers some AI-tracks have received some mainstream attention.”
“While we are not against AI at Deezer, human creativity remains essential, and so does human curation.”
Azzedine Fall, Deezer
In November, Deezer revealed that fully AI-generated music now accounts for 34% of all tracks delivered to its platform each day.
The company noted that it now receives over 50,000 fully AI-generated tracks daily, up from the 30,000 figure it reported in September, the 20,000 it disclosed in April, and the 10,000 it disclosed in January when it first launched its proprietary AI detection tool.
Fall said: “While we are not against AI at Deezer, human creativity remains essential, and so does human curation.
“On Deezer, albums with fully AI-generated music are tagged, and these tracks are removed from the recommendations algorithm and our editorial playlists. We do this to remain transparent to our users, support artists and ensure our curation reflects real artistic intention.”
Looking ahead to 2026, Fall predicted three major trends for music consumption: “Firstly, contextual listening will grow, with music being chosen to match exact moments and moods. Secondly, we’re expecting to see a continued increase of long-form projects with clear artistic vision and storytelling, told through albums and longer tracks, as well as intimate live sessions.
“Live events is a sector in which we will continue to expand, to support strong artistic choices both inside and outside the app. Finally, we expect the relevance of back catalog music to continue increasing, with classics resurfacing in new contexts and being enjoyed by newer and younger audiences.”
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