These are the Billboard magazine's number-one dance songs of 2025 on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, the Hot Dance/Pop Songs, and the Dance/Mix Show Airplay charts. The Dance/Mix Show Airplay was first published in 2003, ranking songs based on airplay on dance radio and mix-show plays on top 40 radio and select rhythmic radio as measured by Mediabase. Both the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs and the Hot Dance/Pop Songs are multi-metric charts, ranking songs based on digital downloads, streaming, and airplay from radio stations of all formats. First published in 2013, the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs was revamped in January 2025 to focus on songs primarily recorded by DJs or producers, with an emphasis on electronic-based production. As a result, the Hot Dance/Pop Songs chart was created to compile songs with "dance-centric vocals, melody, and hooks by artists not rooted in the dance genre". [1]
Issue date | Hot Dance/Electronic Songs | Hot Dance/Pop Songs | ||||
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Title | Artist(s) | Ref. | Title | Artist(s) | Ref. | |
January 4 | "Miles on It" | Marshmello and Kane Brown | [2] | N.A. | ||
January 11 | [3] | |||||
January 18 | [4] | "It's OK I'm OK" | Tate McRae | [5] | ||
Issue date | Song | Artist(s) | Remixer(s) | Ref(s) |
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January 4 | "Get Busy" | Anabel Englund | [6] | |
January 11 | "Never Been Yours" | Benny Benassi and Oaks | [7] | |
January 18 | "Forever Young" | David Guetta, Alphaville and Ava Max | [8] |
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere. The results are published in Billboard magazine. Billboard biz, the online extension of the Billboard charts, provides additional weekly charts, as well as year-end charts. The two most important charts are the Billboard Hot 100 for songs and Billboard 200 for albums, and other charts may be dedicated to a specific genre such as R&B, country, or rock, or they may cover all genres. The charts can be ranked according to sales, streams, or airplay, and for main song charts such as the Hot 100 song chart, all three data are used to compile the charts. For the Billboard 200 album chart, streams and track sales are included in addition to album sales.
Dance/Mix Show Airplay is a monitored electronic dance music radio chart that is published weekly by Billboard magazine. The chart came about as a result of the small but influential impact of electronic dance music on the radio in the United States and the stations that program it. The current number-one song on the chart is "Forever Young" by David Guetta, Alphaville and Ava Max.
From October 26, 1974 until August 28, 1976, Billboard's Disco Action section published weekly single retail sales charts from various local regions along with Top Audience Response Records in their magazine. Billboard debuted its first national chart devoted exclusively to 12-inch Singles Sales in their issue dated March 16, 1985. This record type is most commonly used in disco and dance music genres where DJs use them to play in discos or dance clubs because of the exclusive extended remixes that are often only made available on this format, but Billboard's 12-inch Single Sales chart ranks releases by artists from all styles of music that release maxi-singles.
Top Dance Albums is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks the top-selling dance music albums in the United States based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The chart debuted on the issue dated June 30, 2001 under the title Top Electronic Albums, with the first number-one title being the original soundtrack to the film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. It originally began as a fifteen-position chart and has since expanded to twenty-five positions.
"Forever Young" is a song by German synth-pop band Alphaville from their first album Forever Young (1984). The single was successful in Scandinavia and in the European German-speaking countries in the same year.
The Rhythmic chart is an airplay chart published weekly by Billboard magazine.
Latin Pop Airplay is a record chart published on Billboard, an American music and entertainment magazine, and a subchart of the Latin Airplay chart. The chart focuses on Latin pop music, namely Spanish-language pop music. It was established by the magazine on October 8, 1994 as a subchart of the Hot Latin Songs chart until October 2012 when the Hot Latin Songs changed its methodology. The first number-one song on the chart was Mañana by Cristian Castro. This chart features only singles or tracks and like most Billboard charts, is based on airplay; the radio charts are compiled using information tracked by from Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems (BDS), which electronically monitors radio stations in more than 140 markets across the United States. The audience charts cross-reference BDS data with listener information compiled by the Arbitron ratings system to determine the approximate number of audience impressions made for plays in each daypart. With the issue dated August 15, 2020, Billboard revamped the chart to reflect overall airplay of Latin pop music on Latin radio stations. Instead of ranking songs being played on Latin-pop stations, rankings will be determined by the amount of airplay Latin-pop songs receive on stations that play Latin music regardless of genre. The current number-one song on the chart is "Soltera" by Shakira.
The Adult Pop Airplay chart is published weekly by Billboard magazine and ranks "the most popular adult top 40 as based on radio airplay detections measured by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems."
Pop Airplay is a 40-song music chart published weekly by Billboard Magazine that ranks the most popular songs of pop music being played on a panel of Top 40 radio stations in the United States. The rankings are based on radio airplay detections as measured by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, a subsidiary of the U.S.' leading marketing research company. Consumer researchers, Nielsen Audio, refers to the format as contemporary hit radio (CHR). The current number-one song on the chart is "Taste" by Sabrina Carpenter.
Hot Dance/Electronic Songs is a record chart has been published weekly by Billboard since January 2013. It is their first chart to be published that ranks the most popular dance and electronic songs according to audience impressions, digital downloads, and streaming and it was introduced following an increase in the genre's popularity in the United States. The chart originally included reported club play.
"Stay the Night" is a song by Russian-German electronic dance music producer Zedd, from the deluxe edition (2013) of his debut studio album, Clarity (2012). It features vocals from Hayley Williams, the lead singer of American rock group Paramore. The song was written by Zedd, Williams, Benjamin Eli Hanna, and Carah Faye, and produced by Zedd. "Stay the Night" was released to digital retailers on 23 September 2013, by Interscope Records as the lead single off the deluxe edition of Clarity, and the fourth overall single from the album.
Latin Airplay is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It was established on October 20, 2012.
"When I'm Gone" is a song by Swedish DJ Alesso and American singer Katy Perry. It was released on 29 December 2021 by 10:22 PM Records. It coincides with the first date of Play—Perry's Las Vegas concert residency. The song is a EDM, dance-pop, house and electropop tune, written by Perry, Alesso, Alida Garpestad Peck, Rami Yacoub, Nathan Cunningham, Marc Sibley, and Alma Goodman, and produced by Alesso and the Space Primates.
Say It Like You Feel It is the fifth studio album by American electronic music group Cash Cash, released on May 14, 2021, via Atlantic and Big Beat Records. The album has a total of 18 tracks and is their longest album to date. The group released the album cover art as an NFT on April 26, 2022. Say It Like You Feel It includes collaborations with singers Abir, Alex Newell, Brandon Colbein, Conor Maynard, Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional, Georgia Ku, Harloe, Laura White, Lukas Graham, Nasri of Magic!, Nikki Vianna, Phoebe Ryan, Rozes, Tayler Buono, Violet Days, Wrabel and rapper Wiz Khalifa.
The Hot Dance/Pop Songs chart has been published weekly by Billboard beginning in January 2025. A sister chart to their Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, the creation of the Hot Dance/Pop Songs chart was announced on December 10, 2024. The chart contains 15 positions and ranks the most popular dance pop songs in the U.S. according to audience impressions, physical and digital song sales, and streaming. The first number-one on the chart, in the issue dated January 18, 2025, was "It's OK I'm OK" by Tate McRae.