These were Germany’s most streamed songs in 2025

Which tunes filled our ears as we rode the U-Bahn, boiled up a Knödel, or enjoyed a Wegbier? Here’s what Germany was streaming on Spotify in 2025.

2025 Spotify Wrapped in Germany

If you were going about your daily business listening to music, audiobooks or podcasts in Germany in 2025, chances are you were using Spotify. And according to Spotify Wrapped, you might well have been listening to “trau mich auf” by Zartmann.

Released in January 2025, "trau mich auf" is a rapper's lament about arrested emotional development and the desire for love and connection in a world encouraging hedonism and isolation. With some catchy clapping arrangements and an easy chant-along chorus, it's less of a downer than it sounds.

“Ordinary” by Alex Warren on the other hand, the second-most streamed song, leaves much to be desired. The anaemic love song uses shout-singing and endless drops to appear epic. Warren states his aim in the lyrics, “We'll make the mundane our masterpiece” and evidently, he has succeeded.

The Partyschlager hit “Wackelkontakt” rounded out the top three. Bavarian artist Oimara self-soothes and repeats, “Wär ich ein Möbelstück, dann wär ich eine Lampe aus den Siebzigern” (“If I were a piece of furniture, I would be a 1970s lamp”), accompanied by a choir of children and happy hardcore beat.  

Most-streamed songs on German Spotify in 2025

These were the 10 most-streamed songs on Spotify in Germany in 2025:

1. “tau mich auf”, Zartmann
2. “Ordinary”, Alex Warren
3. “Wackelkontakt”, Oimara
4. “AKON”, Jazeek
5. “APT.”, ROSÉ, Bruno Mars
6. “The Emptiness Machine”, Linkin Park
7. “Shabab(e)s im VIP”, Pashanim, Ceren
8. “SABÍA QUE NO”, reezy
9. “Die With A Smile”, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars
10. “Golden”, HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI, KPop Demon Hunters Cast

Spotify Unwrapped spotlights company working with ICE

In 2025, Spotify Wrapped’s drop came with an additional stocking filler. To coincide with the announcement, the campaign Spotify Unwrapped drew attention to the people and policies behind the Swedish streaming site.

Organised by Working Families Party, 50501 Movement, and Indivisible, the campaign called on Spotify to “terminate all ICE and DHS advertising contracts”, “update its Advertising Policy to prohibit government propaganda” and “commit to defending civil rights and standing up for communities under threat from authoritarian actions”.

Spotify faced widespread criticism in June this year after it was announced that CEO Daniel Ek had invested 600 million euros in the military AI company Helsing. Helsing is based in Munich and develops strike drones and underwater surveillance systems, among other military technologies.