Notice anything unusual about this year’s top hits? Yes, more than half of them are from last year.

In 2024, there were 13 songs released that year in the Hitmakers final Top 25 , as tallied by our data partner Luminate. As of Nov. 20, this year’s list includes just seven songs released in 2025, with a whopping 16 from 2024. In fact, four songs in the 2025 top 10 — Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control” (which actually came out in 2023), Benson Boone ’s “Beautiful Things,” Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” and Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” — were also in the 2024 top 10, and Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” is just outside, at 12.

Not all of the 2024 songs are necessarily holdovers from last year — several, including songs by Marias, Leon Thomas and Gracie Abrams, didn’t really break thro

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