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\n\tIn the 2025 calendar year, 711 total songs appeared on the Billboard Hot 100, by 350 different artists. Of those artists, 75 landed on the chart for the very first time.<\/p>\n
\n\tAs has become a Billboard<\/em> tradition, we\u2019ve been spotlighting these Hot 100 first-timers throughout the year, celebrating their first appearances and sharing their reactions to the news. Now, as we ease into 2026, here\u2019s a look back at all the acts who made their Hot 100 debuts in 2025 and the songs that turned them into Hot 100 hitmakers.<\/p>\n \n\tThe 2025 class of first-timers was particularly notable: four of the Recording Academy\u2019s 2026 best new artist nominees \u2014 Olivia Dean, KATSEYE, sombr and Leon Thomas \u2014 earned their first Hot 100 hits in 2025. (Best new artist nominees Addison Rae, Alex Warren and Lola Young charted for the first time in 2024, while The Mar\u00edas earned their first entry in 2022.)<\/p>\n \n\tDean debuted with her breakout single \u201cMan I Need,\u201d which reached the top 10, and followed with four additional entries. KATSEYE arrived in June with \u201cGnarly\u201d and scored its first top 40 hit in November with \u201cGabriela.\u201d Sombr hit the top 10 in November with \u201cBack to Friends,\u201d his first<\/a> chart entry, and continued his momentum with \u201cUndressed\u201d and \u201c12 to 12.\u201d And Thomas \u2014 already a Hot 100-charting songwriter for acts including Drake and SZA \u2014 earned his first<\/a> solo Hot 100 entry and first top 10 as a recording artist with \u201cMutt.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSeveral longtime hitmakers also made their long-awaited Hot 100 debuts. Imogen Heap, whose 2005 track \u201cHide and Seek\u201d became the foundation for Jason Derulo\u2019s 2009 No. 1 \u201cWhatcha Say,\u201d finally appeared on the Hot 100 under her own name when her 20-year-old song \u201cHeadlock\u201d charted<\/a> following a TikTok revival.<\/p>\n \n\tJustice, one of the most influential electronic duos of the 21st century, earned its first entry<\/a> in February thanks to its collaboration with The Weeknd, \u201cWake Me Up.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tCult-rap icon Lil B reached the Hot 100<\/a> for the first time via \u201cDadz Love,\u201d his collaboration with Justin Bieber on the latter\u2019s Grammy-nominated Swag<\/em> album.<\/p>\n \n\tPlus, Tame Impala scored its first-ever Hot 100 hit<\/a> in October with \u201cDracula,\u201d and later charted two more songs from its Deadbeat<\/em> album (\u201cLoser\u201d and \u201cMy Old Ways\u201d). The group\u2019s leader, Kevin Parker, previously produced Hot 100 hits for Lady Gaga and Dua Lipa, and several of the band\u2019s songs had chart presence via samples on other songs \u2014 Travis Scott\u2019s 2018 hit, \u201cSkeletons,\u201d for example, samples Tame Impala\u2019s \u201cFeels Like We Only Go Backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tOther noteworthy first-timers included members of the KPop Demon Hunters<\/em> cast, former NBA player-turned-rapper LiAngelo Ball<\/a> (recording as GELO), 2000s indie-folk duo She & Him (which comprises Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward) and, in one of the year\u2019s quirkiest chart moments, Pharrell Williams\u2019 Louis Vuitton handbag, Speedy. The accessory was credited as a billed artist on Don Toliver, j-hope and Pharrell\u2019s \u201cLV Bag,\u201d making it, yes, the first handbag to chart on the Hot 100.<\/p>\n \n\tFollowing similar first-timer rundowns in 2024<\/a> and 2023<\/a>, below, in chronological order, is a complete list of every artist who earned their first Hot 100 hit in 2025 (encompassing the charts dated Jan. 4-Dec. 27, 2025).<\/p>\n