My top 10 worst songs of 2025

 As promised, here is my top 10 worst songs of 2025. Once again, this will follow the same criteria as my previous worst lists. Let's just get into it.

10. Brenn- Franklin House

Serious question, does anyone still even remember this? I honestly did, until I was looking back through previous posts for songs to put on here. So yeah, this is pure ass. It's really slow and boring, Brenn's voice sounds way too haunted, and the lyric "I will survive, but I'll never recover" makes this more depressing than it should be as this seems to be about a brutal breakup. Not to mention this feels way to long for what it is. Also, not about the song, but about the artist, why is there a goddamn exclamation mark at the end of his name? That makes less sense than when Oliver Anthony Music putting the word music at the end of his stage name.

9. Max McNown- A Lot More Free

Here's something else from the beginning of 2025 that you guys probably forgot about. And as of when I'm doing this, Max McNown has had another song, Better Me For You, chart on Mediabase. But this, A Lot More Free, was his first song there, and it is still as bad as before. It's insanely boring and Max McNown doesn't exactly have a good enough voice to make it better, he honestly sounds like a less good version of Zach Bryan. At least this sort of flopped on Hits 1...

8. Jon Bellion/ Luke Combs- Why

Wow, Jon Bellion's attempt at a comeback was ruined by this. I liked Kid Again, and then Horoscope with Pharrell fell well below expectations, as I expected the production to be somewhat interesting given Pharrell's name attached to it, but it was barely decent... and now we have the song I'm currently talking about and made the #8 spot on my list. This is just plain bad. It's super boring and unlike Horoscope, it isn't in a key that can allow me to tolerate it. Both Jon Bellion and Luke Combs sound fine, but not even that saves the song from this list. Yeah, a much deserved ranking here.

7. Haven Madison- Castle

Daniel, thank you for knowing what a good Haven Madison song is. Of course, I heard her songs Monster and Obsessed on Daniel's Hits Of The Future show and liked both of them, but this was her first song on Hits 1 and... yeah, this is bad. It is really slow, almost reminds me of Dear Me by Kesha or Kaleidoscope by Chappell Roan, and I've said before that I don't like those songs despite liking the artists that wrote them. Haven Madison sounds fine, but that doesn't save the song at all. I hope Hits 1 will eventually pick up on a good Haven Madison song.

So these first four songs all made the list over how boring they were. Here is the first that made the list due to being purely annoying:

6. Jessie Murph- Blue Strips

I'd say Jessie Murph needs to stop making music forever, but her last two songs were surprisingly tolerable, and I actually nearly forgot about Blue Strips until Ethan had this as his overall least favorite song of 2025... yeah, my opinion on this complete trainwreck still stands. It reminds me way too much of Need To Know by Doja Cat in a rather distracting way and it sounds somewhat repetitive, plus she doesn't sound that great here. The fact that this had as much success as it did completely fucking baffles me since me, Ethan, Mark from Billboard Breakdown, and various other music critics hated it. At least she's somewhat trending in the right direction...

5. Selena Gomez/ Benny Blanco- Scared Of Loving You

Let's be completely real: Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco could have celebrated their engagement without making this album. None of the songs were that great, the best was Call Me When You Break Up with Gracie Abrams, and even that got annoying the longer it was on the countdown. But this was the lead single, and yeah, complete shitfest. It's just another generic love ballad where Benny Blanco's production is just about as bad as his hygiene, preferably worse than his production in Lonely with Justin Bieber, at least he co-produced that with Finneas. Selena Gomez sounds alright, but it's not even close to enough to save the song from any faults it has. And since Selena Gomez's latest song In The Dark was a lot better than every song on the album combined and Benny Blanco didn't produce that song... I don't know, maybe Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco should get divorced, since Benny Blanco can't produce his wife's songs the right way.

4. Sienna Spiro- Die On This Hill

If you want to talk about artists Hits 1 became way too obsessed with in 2025 that aren't named Alessi Rose, Sienna Spiro is a great example. And their obsession with her got the absolute worst when they picked up on this song. It's extremely boring and has rather sad lyrics, and Sienna Spiro doesn't have the right voice to save this from any faults it has. Hits 1, maybe we don't need any more of her...

3. Taylor Swift- The Fate Of Ophelia

Yes, that's right. The Life Of A Showgirl is the third consecutive Taylor Swift album where the album rollout saw the entire top 10 of the hot 100. And here's the song that was #1. And what do you know, it is completely ass. It's just what I have come to expect from her at this point, a bunch of generic shit that everyone is going to overrate the living shit out of for a shit long time. And since it's currently in its second week at #1 as of when I'm writing this, I don't see the hype around this dying down anytime soon.

And my top two songs are by an artist that Taylor Swift ruined for me by having her open on the Eras Tour...

2. Sabrina Carpenter- Manchild

Maybe 2026 will be the year we stop overrating the living shit out of Sabrina Carpenter, because 2025 clearly wasn't it. Anyways, Short N Sweet got a deluxe edition (more on that shit later on, you have been warned), but then she dropped ANOTHER album over the summer, and this was the lead single... well it basically sounds like the only song on the list that surpassed this, I'll go over why I hate that shortly. And then this becoming her millionth consecutive #1 on Hits 1 just fueled my hatred towards this. Thankfully, it has left the countdown recently and her song that is currently on the countdown, Tears, is somewhat better. But still, she should have waited a couple years to drop this.

Before I reveal my #1 song of 2025, I'm going to go over some dishonorable mentions:

Jonas Brothers/ Dean Lewis- Loved You Better

I guess I let my expectations get too high.

Laufey- Tough Luck

Songs like this are why I will never get the appeal to Laufey.

Sam Smith- Love Is A Stillness

Why are they going back to their old ways with this?

Rosé- Toxic Til The End
This was toxic until the end of its run.

Jackson Wang- Made Me A Man

Jackson Wang, you're going in the wrong direction right now

Alexander Stewart/ Lauren Spencer-Smith- Friends Don't

Friends don't make collabs that are this boring.

Taylor Swift- Opalite

I ran out of room on the main list to put this on.

And so my least favorite song of 2025 is...

1. Sabrina Carpenter- Busy Woman

And here's what I was talking about when I was talking about its clone earlier. This is easily one of the most outraging songs on Short N Sweet. In addition to an extremely generic beat and key, the lyrics on here are about trying to force someone into a relationship with her, with the most questionable one being "if you don't want me, I'll just deem you gay," and this is coming from someone who liked the line "How can I be homophobic? My bitch is gay" from Doja by Central Cee, mainly since he actually had a bisexual girlfriend at the time of that song's release, therefore making that line make sense. Meanwhile, Sabrina Carpenter's ex, Barry Keoghan, is 100% straight, at least to my knowledge. So yeah, generic format, questionable lyrics, and the unnecessary success this had propelled this to the top spot. Yeah, I hope we don't get any Sabrina Carpenter songs in 2026.

And that concludes my 2025 worst list, see you guys for my regularly scheduled post soon.