This year didn’t sound like any other, and neither should your music recap.
Welcome to 2025 Playback, SoundCloud’s end-of-year experience designed to celebrate the way you listened, discovered, created, and shaped culture all year long.
With a catalog of over 400 million tracks and over 40 million artists, SoundCloud is the home for a vibrant global community of artists and fans and SoundCloud 2025 Playback reflects that —your moods, your scenes, your discoveries, your impact.
For fans, 2025 Playback highlights the tracks that carried you and the genres you fell into at 2AM—and even introduces your Music Doppelgänger, the taste twin you didn’t know you had.
- Top 5 listened artists, tracks, and genres
- Total plays and listening time
- Moods: track your moods through all of 2025
- Genre Discovery Count: How many genres you explored this year
- Music Doppelgänger: From the profiles you follow, the user that shares highest music-taste percentage
- Listening Time Persona: When you’re most active
- Dedicated homepage module featuring previous years’ Playback playlists
For artists, 2025 Playback reveals how far your sound traveled, the cities where fans found you, the listeners who became loyal supporters, and the momentum you built this year.
- Top 5 fans, uploaded tracks, and engagement with tracks
- Total plays, listening time, and engagement with tracks
- Audience insights:
- Top cities
- How much time fans spent with your tracks
- Follower growth
- Artist Doppelganger: Artists you should connect with
- Dedicated spotlight to show love to top fans
On SoundCloud, fans and artists shape each other—and 2025 Playback shows that relationship in a way only SoundCloud can.
This is your year as you really lived it: Get your 2025 Playback here and celebrate the sounds you shaped.
