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Spotify Wrapped 2025 Reveals Australia’s Streaming Trends


Key Takeaways

  • Popularity: Taylor Swift remains the most streamed artist in Australia for the third consecutive year.
  • Chart Success: Her album The Life of a Showgirl reached No. 1 on the ARIA Chart, marking her 14th chart-topping album.
  • Streaming Records: Swift’s recent single achievements include sweeping the top 12 on the ARIA Singles Chart.
  • Local Favorites: The Wiggles topped the list of most popular local artists on Spotify in Australia.

Taylor Swift is still the showgirl Australians can’t get enough of.

The U.S. pop superstar comes out on top of Spotify’s Wrapped results for Australia, doing so for a third consecutive year. Swift leads a top 5 that’s dominated by artists from North America, ahead of Drake, Morgan Wallen, The Weeknd, and Billie Eilish, respectively.

TayTay’s popularity in Australia is unsurpassed. Her most recent album, The Life of a Showgirl, blasted to No. 1 on the national ARIA Chart, extending her record for the most leaders by a female artist (14). The collection is recognized as the most-streamed week one album in ARIA history and notched the biggest vinyl sales debut, while “The Fate of Ophelia” became her 13th No. 1 single.

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When Showgirl dropped, Swift swept the entire top 12 on the ARIA Singles Chart, a feat never before achieved.

Meanwhile, the most streamed song on Australian Spotify accounts this year was Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” ahead of Gracie Abram’s “That’s So True.” Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feature” completes the podium.

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After dominating the Netflix rankings in the second half of 2025, the companion recording, KPop Demon Hunters, was Australia’s top album for the past year.

For the year, the most popular homegrown artist on Spotify’s platform down under was The Wiggles, ahead of The Kid Laroi, whose album The First Time was the most-streamed homegrown LP. AC/DC, whose POWER UP tour is currently rocking stadiums around the country, comes in at No. 3 among most-streamed Australian acts, and the rock legends sweep the top 3 of Top Throwback Songs (pre-2000) with “Thunderstruck,” “Highway to Hell” and “Back in Black,” respectively.

Australia has a population of about 25 million; half of them are said to be on Spotify every month.

As previously reported, Bad Bunny dominates Spotify’s year-end Wrapped, the streaming giant’s listening summary, for which he comes in at No. 1 on the Global Top Artist tally for 2025 with more than 19.8 billion streams worldwide.

It’s the fourth time Bunny has held Spotify’s global streaming title after ruling in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

Check out the Spotify Wrapped Australia results below.

Australia Top Artists:

Australia Top Local Artists:

  1. The Wiggles
  2. The Kid LAROI
  3. AC/DC
  4. Hilltop Hoods
  5. Tame Impala (Top Local Artist List debut)
  6. RÜFÜS DU SOL
  7. Royel Otis (Top Local Artist List debut)
  8. Sia (Top Local Artist List debut)
  9. Dom Dolla (Top Local Artist List debut)
  10. Spacey Jane (Top Local Artist List debut)

Australia Top Songs:

Australia Top Local Songs:

Australia Top Albums:

Australia Top Local Albums:

Australia Top Podcasts:

Australia Top Local Podcasts:

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Australia Top Audiobooks in Premium:

Australia Top Throwback Songs (pre-2000):

Australia Most Discovered Artists:
(i.e. users streaming an artist for the first time):

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