SoundCloud Playback 2025 highlights your year in music
SoundCloud Playback returns for 2025, with your top tracks, artists and insights of the year.
SoundCloud Playback is back for 2025, giving you an engaging way to look back at the music that shaped your year. The platform calls this year’s roundup “the way you listened, discovered, created, and shaped culture all year long.”
With more than 400 million tracks and over 40 million artists, SoundCloud describes itself as “the home for a vibrant global community of artists and fans.” Playback brings that community together again by showing how your individual habits contributed to the wider music scene.
Playback for fans
2025 Playback presents a clear picture of what your year sounded like. According to SoundCloud, it reflects “your moods, your scenes, your discoveries, your impact.” Here’s what listeners can explore:
- Top 5 artists, tracks and genres you played the most.
- Total plays and total listening time from the entire year.
- Moods, tracking how your listening changed throughout 2025.
- Genre Discovery Count, showing how many genres you explored.
- Your Music Doppelgänger, described as “the taste twin you didn’t know you had.”
- A Listening Time Persona, showing when you are most active.
- A dedicated homepage module featuring previous years’ Playback playlists.
Whether you spent your nights diving into new scenes, stuck to your trusted favourites, or experimented with completely new styles, Playback gives a simple visual overview of everything you returned to most.
Playback for artists
Playback is not just for listeners. Artists also get a detailed summary of how far their music travelled and how audiences connected with their sound. The artist view includes:
- Top 5 fans, uploaded tracks, and engagement across releases.
- Total plays, listening time, and track engagement.
- Audience insights, including:
- Top cities
- Time fans spent with your tracks
- Follow growth
- An Artist Doppelgänger – “Artists you should connect with.”
- A spotlight to show appreciation for your top fans.
These insights help artists see where their community is growing, who is listening most, and which tracks built the most momentum this year.
Celebrate your year in music
SoundCloud puts it perfectly, “On SoundCloud, fans and artists shape each other – and 2025 Playback shows that relationship in a way only SoundCloud can.” Playback reflects how your listening or releasing shaped the wider SoundCloud community, showing what defined your year and where your music reached.
“This is your year as you really lived it: Get your 2025 Playback here and celebrate the sounds you shaped. Make next year even bigger by exploring more music or sharing your own tracks.