Spotify - the world's largest music streaming platform - has just announced its annual campaign "Spotify Wrapped", listing the most popular artists, songs, albums and music trends globally in 2025.
The song APT. by Rose (Blackpink) and Bruno Mars became the most streamed Kpop song on Spotify worldwide in the year, currently reaching 2.155 billion streams.
At the same time, APT. is the 3rd most listened song by an artist worldwide, behind only Lady Gagas Die with a smile (No. 1) and Billie Eilishs Birds of a feather (No. 2).
Rose made history as the first female K-pop artist to enter the Top 10 songs of the year on Spotify Wrapped. Rose is also currently the most watched female K-pop solo artist on Spotify with over 13.5 million followers.
Following APT., the most listened Kpop songs globally in 2025 are Huntr/xs Golden (Kpop Demon Hunters), BTSs Who by Jimin, Jin (BTS)s Dont say you love me, Jennies (Blackpink) Like JENNIE, Your Idol and Soda pop by Saja Boys, Jungkooks Seven (BTS) Latto,How its done by Huntr/x,Gabriela by KATSEYE.
Meanwhile, in the list of most streamed K-pop artists in 2025, BTS continued to hold the throne for the 4th consecutive year, despite the group's interruption of activities due to members joining the army.
Following BTS are Stray Kids, Jennie, Rose, Huntr/x, TWICE, Blackpink, Jungkook, ENHYPEN and KATSEYE in the Top 10.
In addition to Spotify, Rose also dominates many other platforms. APT. is the most streamed song globally in 2025 on Apple Music, Shazam and Deezer. Rose became the first female solo artist in history to top the Apple Music year-end chart.
On YouTube Music, APT. is the most listened K-pop song of the year and ranked 2nd globally after Die with a smile.
According to Circle's global rankings, Rose is the K-pop artist with the most streams this year, with 14.8 billion streams.
In addition, Rose has just been honored by the famous Variety magazine as "global Hit creator of the Year" within the framework of the annual Variety Hitmakers 2025 event.
The Blackpink singer is aiming for the Grammy dream when the song APT. was nominated in 3 categories at Grammy 2026, including Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Pop Duet/Group Performance.
Previously, in September, Rose became the first Asian artist and K-pop artist to win the "Song of the Year" category at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards with the hit "APT. ".
