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\n\tFor the first time since the inaugural year-end global charts in 2021, the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts have different reigning artists. Sabrina Carpenter<\/a> is the top artist on the former list and Bad Bunny<\/a> leads the latter.<\/p>\n \n\tBoth acts are powered by new releases. Bad Bunny released\u00a0DeBI TiRAR MaS FOToS<\/em>\u00a0on January 5 and immediately impacted the charts. Five of its songs debuted in the top of each global list, with its entire track listing filling up the rest of the tallies. He sports nine titles on the year-end Global Excl. U.S. Songs chart, including \u201cDTMF\u201d at No. 10, and eight on the Global 200 roundup.<\/p>\n \n\tCarpenter\u2019s new hits came later in the year, upon the Aug. 29 unveiling of\u00a0Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/em>. \u201cManchild\u201d previewed the album with its June release, which debuted at No. 2 on both global charts. \u201cTears\u201d followed months later, with the same No. 2 start.<\/p>\n \n\tBut Carpenter\u2019s best year-end showings are her biggest hits from 2024. \u201cEspresso\u201d winds up in the top 10 for both lists, with \u201cPlease Please Please\u201d and \u201cTaste\u201d each in the top 40.<\/p>\n \n\tBillie Eilish and Bruno Mars also appear in the top five for both charts, with Kendrick Lamar filling the final spot for Global 200 Artists and Lady Gaga doing the same among Global Excl. U.S. acts.<\/p>\n \n\tBillboard\u2019s year-end music charts represent aggregated metrics for each artist, title, label and music contributor on the weekly charts from Oct. 26, 2024, through Oct. 18, 2025. Rankings for Luminate-based recaps reflect equivalent album units, airplay, sales or streaming during the weeks that the entries appeared on a respective chart during the tracking year. Any activity registered before or after a title\u2019s chart run isn\u2019t considered in these rankings. That methodology detail, and the October-October time period, account for some of the difference between these lists and the calendar-year recaps that are independently compiled by Luminate.<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tFor the fourth consecutive year, the Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts have the same year-end No. 1 song. More, both charts have an identical top five: the same songs in the same order.<\/p>\n \n\tBruno Mars dominates the songs lists, at No. 1 with \u201cAPT.,\u201d with BLACKPINK\u2019s ROS\u00c9, and at No. 2 with \u201cDie With A Smile,\u201d alongside Lady Gaga. These songs, both released in 2024, traded off the top spot on both weekly lists for the majority of the 2025 tracking period. On Global Excl. U.S., they ruled for 29 of the year\u2019s first 30 weeks, interrupted for one week by Mariah Carey\u2019s annual trip to the top with \u201cAll I Want For Christmas Is You.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBoth hits have endured, only dropping out of the top 20 in the final week of the tracking period due to Taylor Swift\u2019s\u00a0The Life of a Showgirl\u00a0<\/em>clogging up the top of both charts. Mars bounced back in the weeks since, potentially gearing up for another showing on the 2026 year-end recap.<\/p>\n \n\tVery few songs reached the top of either global chart in 2025, which were mostly run by a handful of dominant tracks. After \u201cAPT.\u201d and \u201cDie With A Smile,\u201d Alex Warren\u2019s \u201cOrdinary\u201d took charge, leading the Global 200 for 10 consecutive weeks and Global Excl. U.S. for eight. Ultimately, it finishes at No. 4 for both year-end lists.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cOrdinary\u201d is sandwiched on the year-end charts by two other No. 1 songs. Billie Eilish\u2019s \u201cBirds of a Feather\u201d is No. 3 and Benson Boone\u2019s \u201cBeautiful Things\u201d is No. 5. Both of these were multi-week chart-toppers, but not in 2025.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cBeautiful Things\u201d conquered both lists for multiple months in the Spring of 2024, ultimately becoming that year\u2019s top global song. \u201cBirds of a Feather\u201d reached the summit in August of last year, right before \u201cDie With A Smile\u201d began Mars\u2019 lengthy reign. Both hits lasted in the top 10 of the global charts through July, more than a year after either song was released.<\/p>\n \n\tBoone and Eilish are two examples of a broader trend, with other top 10 spots taken up by Carpenter\u2019s 2024 smash \u201cEspresso\u201d and Teddy Swims\u2019 \u201cLose Control,\u201d which first charted in 2023.<\/p>\n \n\tStill, one of 2025\u2019s biggest breakthroughs also places in the top 10. HUNTR\/X \u2014 an animated girl group featuring the voices of EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami \u2014 is No. 9 on Global Excl. U.S. and No. 10 on the Global 200 with \u201cGolden,\u201d the breakout hit from Netflix\u2019s runaway record-breaker\u00a0Kpop Demon Hunters<\/em>. The Grammy Award-nominated song spent 12 of the last 14 weeks of the tracking period atop both global charts, and returned to the top for the first frames of the 2026 chart year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\tExplore All of Billboard\u2019s 2025 Year-End Charts<\/a>\t<\/h2>\n