TikTok has unveiled its biggest songs of 2025

After Spotify unveiled its biggest artists of 2025 (and wound up insulting us all in the process) with its annual Wrapped event, TikTok has now shared its own listening data from the last 12 months.

Now, we all know that in the digital era, it’s entirely possible for a song to have a sudden resurgence years, or even decades, after its original release.

Just ask Kate Bush, whose song Running Up That Hill topped the UK singles chart almost 40 years after it was first played due a boost in popularity from Stranger Things – or Sophie Ellis-Bextor, whose signature hit Murder On The Dance Floor became more popular than ever when it was featured in the movie Saltburn.

But what might surprise you to hear is that TikTok’s top song globally in 2025 wasn’t even released this year or, indeed, this side of the millennium…

Was the biggest song globally on TikTok in 2025?

Back in May, the late Connie Francis’ 1962 hit Pretty Little Baby became an unexpected trending hit on TikTok, being used in a total of 28.4 million videos, usually as the soundtrack for something wholesome.

Connie Francis pictured in 1964

At the time, no one was more shocked by the song’s resurgence than Connie herself,

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