After much personal reflection and list-making by WNXP hosts, followed by the aggregation of those rankings into two master lists — Top 10 Nashville Albums and Top 30 Albums of 2025 — we’ve run one final list to reflect this incredible year in music. This one is less subjective and sources the hard math of it all: how many total times did we play a song on 91.ONE?
Here are the tunes you heard the most on Nashville’s NPR Music station in 2025. Some songs can be found on our favorite records of the year, sure, but some instead were standout singles on records that didn’t make a huge impression otherwise. Others on this list are early teasers of records to come in 2026, which we’ll highly anticipate playing for you when they drop.
For now, look (and listen!) backward with us and enjoy our 91 Most Played Songs of 2025.
- Fontaines D.C. – It’s Amazing To Be Young
- Hermanos Gutiérrez Feat. Leon Bridges – Elegantly Wasted
- Alabama Shakes – Another Life
- Dijon – Yamaha
- Royel Otis – moody
- Jungle – Keep Me Satsified
- Parcels – Yougotmefeeling
- Wet Leg – mangetout
- Hayley Williams – Mirtazapine
- Big Thief – Incomprehensible
- Tame Impala – Loser
- Bon Iver – Everything Is Peaceful Love
- Jean Dawson – Rock A Bye Baby
- Kali Uchis – All I Can Say
- David Byrne Feat. Ghost Train Orchestra – Everybody Laughs
- Lord Huron – Nothing I Need
- Gigi Perez – Chemistry
- Nation of Language – Inept Apollo
- Pulp – Spike Island
- Cuco – ICNBYH
- Altons – Float
- Joy Crookes – Perfect Crime
- TURNSTILE – NEVER ENOUGH
- Josh Gilligan – Ceiling
- wunderhorse – The Rope
- The Black Keys – The Night Before
- Djo – Potion
- Militarie Gun – B A D I D E A
- Cameron Winter – Love Takes Miles
- Alex G – Afterlife
- Oracle Sisters – Wait For Me
- Panchiko – Ginkgo
- Saba & No ID Feat. Raphael Saadiq And Kelly Rowland – Crash
- sombr – back to friends
- Viagra Boys – Waterboy
- Samia – Bovine Excision
- Lupe Fiasco – SOS
- Stereolab – Aerial Troubles
- Thundercat – I Wish I Didn’t Waste Your Time
- Σtella – Adagio
- The MarÃas – Back To Me
- Broncho – Think I Pass
- Butcher Brown – Something New About You
- Sam Fender – Arm’s Length
- RAYE – WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!
- Die Spitz – Punishers
- Jahnah Camille – what do you do
- Caamp – Mistakes
- Foxwarren – Listen2me
- Momma – I Want You (Fever)
- Blondshell – T&A
- Folk Bitch Trio – The Actor
- Miya Folick – Felicity
- Rocket – One Million
- Samara Cyn – hardheaded
- Yumi Zouma – Bashville on the Sugar
- Bartees Strange – Backseat Banton
- Japanese Breakfast – Picture Window
- girlpuppy – I Just Do!
- Shame – Cutthroat
- Sir Chloe – Forgiving
- Yuno – Blest
- Curtis Harding – There She Goes
- Olivia Dean – Man I Need
- MRCY – Wandering Attention
- Car Seat Headrest – Devereaux
- Florist – Have Heaven
- Jay Som Feat. Jim Adkins – Float
- Lera Lynn – CHERRY TREE
- Mac Miller – 5 Dollar Pony Rides
- Role Model – Sally, When The Wine Runs Out
- Lady Wray – Be A Witness
- Little Simz – Free
- Shelly – Cross Your Mind
- Jeff Tweedy – Enough
- Tyler, The Creator – Ring Ring Ring
- Wednesday – Elderberry Wine
- Durand Bernarr – Overqualified
- Loaded Honey – Don’t Speak
- SAULT – T.H.
- The Beths – Straight Line Was A Lie
- Clover County – Ultraviolet
- Saya Gray – THUS IS WHY ( I DON’T SPRING 4 LOVE)
- spill tab – Angie
- Frankie and the Witch Fingers – Gutter Priestess
- El Michels Affair Feat. Clairo – Anticipate
- 54 Ultra – No Tengo Valor
- Mei Semones – I Can Do What I Want
- Adrian Quesada Feat. Angélica Garcia – No Juego
- Lucius – Gold Rush
- Lucy Dacus – Best Guess