YouTube Recap vs Spotify Wrapped 2025: Lady Gaga and Joe Rogan Dominate Both Lists

With just a few days left until the end of 2025, music apps have made a subtle change by introducing a statistical feature to look back at the past 1 year. Keeping up with the trend of sharing summaries on social networks, YouTube launched the Recap tab in December. Providing users with 12 categories, which can be personalized and more.

Similar to Spotify Wrapped, with YouTube Recap, as users continue to update their top artists and their listening ages on Stories, they have also released a global chart of the most streamed artists in various countries. Here are the details.

YouTube Trending Songs Chart Recap 2025

1. Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga – Die With A Smile
2. Rosé, Bruno Mars – APT.
3. HUNTR/X (KPop Demon Hunters Cast) – Golden
4. Saja Boys (KPop Demon Hunters Cast) – Soda Pop
5. Saja Boys (KPop Demon Hunters Cast) – Your Idol
6. Victor Valverde, Jr. Torres – El Mayor de los Ranas
7. HUNTR/X (KPop Demon Hunters Cast) – How It's Done
8. Alex Warren – Ordinary
9. Kendrick Lamar, SZA – Luther
10. Kendrick Lamar – tv off

Spotify Wrapped 2025 Trending Songs Chart

1. 'Die With A Smile' by Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars
2. 'BIRDS OF A FEATHER' by Billie Eilish
3. 'APT.' by ROSÉ and Bruno Mars
4. 'Ordinary' by Alex Warren
5. 'DtMF' by Bad Bunny
6. 'back to friends' by sombr
7. 'Golden' by HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI, KPop Demon Hunters Cast
8. 'luther (with sza)' by Kendrick Lamar and SZA
9. 'That's So True' by Gracie Abrams
10. 'Wildflower' by Billie Eilish

It's interesting to note that Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars' "Die With a Smile" topped both YouTube and Spotify charts, while Billie Eilish was completely absent from the video streaming platform. K-Pop was also notably absent from this year's charts.

YouTube Recap 2025 – Top Podcasts

1. The Joe Rogan Experience
2. KILL TONY
3. Good Mythical Morning
4. Rotten Mango
5. The MeidasTouch Podcast
6. 48 Hours
7. The Shawn Ryan Show
8. Smosh Reads Reddit Stories
9. This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
10. The CEO's Diary

Spotify Wrapped 2025 – Top Podcasts

1. The Joe Rogan Experience
2. The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
3. The Mel Robbins Podcast
4. Call Her Daddy
5. This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
6. Huberman Lab
7. Crime Junkie
8. Modern Wisdom
9. On Purpose with Jay Shetty
10. The Tucker Carlson Show

While "The Joe Rogan Experience" remains the top choice for YouTube and Spotify users, "The Diary of a CEO" has the opposite ranking. Despite being at the bottom of the list, it's ranked second on Spotify. A similar trend was seen with "This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von."

Micah Soto

Update 08 December 2025