Spotify generates a hundred-song playlist each year directly from your listening history — no curation, no second-guessing. What ends up in it is simply what you actually played. This is 2025’s.
About thirty tracks were recoverable from the public page. The full hundred stays in the app. What follows is based on what came through.
Norwegian to the core
The biggest single thread in the list. Six Norwegian acts, collectively accounting for more plays than any other category. The language never matters when the guitar does.
Skambankt
Stavanger punk rock. Raw, politically charged, anthemic. Norwegian rock royalty.
Madrugada
Brooding blues-soaked rock. Dark, cinematic, and deeply atmospheric.
CC Cowboys
Norwegian country-rock with a warm heart. Nostalgic, earthy, and timeless.
Sivert Høyem
Madrugada's frontman solo. Deep baritone, soul-soaked blues and meditative rock.
Dumdum Boys
Norwegian rock veterans since 1986. Gritty, anthemic, three decades of honest rock.
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Ingenting
Swedish post-punk. Moody, introspective, and stripped to the bone.
Country and Americana
From Cody Johnson’s working-man Texas grit to The Handsome Family’s gothic dust, the American south and west showed up consistently across the year.
Cody Johnson
Texas country, no frills. Hard-working, honest music built to last.
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Tucker Wetmore
New-wave country with an old soul. Young voice, real substance.
Shaboozey
Country-rap crossover. Dusty saloons meet hip-hop swagger. One of 2024's biggest breakouts.
Marc Scibilia
American singer-songwriter. Heartfelt, rootsy, quietly powerful.
Jesse Marchant
Canadian folk. Sparse and intimate — landscapes translated into song.
The Handsome Family
Gothic Americana from New Mexico. Dark poetry over country bones. Wrote the True Detective theme.
Electronic
The late-night end of the list. Melodic house on one side, deep Goa trance on the other, with not much in between.
Lost Frequencies
Belgian progressive house. Melodic, euphoric, and festival-sized in feeling.
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Phaxe
Danish psytrance. High-energy, hypnotic, built for headphones at altitude.
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Koan
Russian ambient psytrance duo. Cosmic, meditative, endlessly deep.
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Talamasca
French psytrance veteran. Two decades of driving Goa trance that never dates.
Everything else
A few things that don’t fit neatly but clearly earned their place.
Disturbed
Chicago hard rock. Heavy, precise, and unexpectedly emotional when it matters.
Angus & Julia Stone
Australian sibling indie folk. Warm harmonies, wandering hearts, unhurried.
The Veils
New Zealand indie rock. Dark, literary, and driven by urgent guitar.