Music Week 2025 Recap
Happy New Year my friends! The 2025 edition of Music Week - the 8th annual - is in the books and it was our biggest yet. More songs, artists, albums, and contributors than ever before. Thanks again to everyone that participated and hung out. We’ll do it again later this year!
Favorite Songs
Same as last year, we had 3 songs tied for 1st place, each finishing with 3 tallies. Our top 3 this year:
Relationships, HAIM - (AH | GM | FG)
Man I Need, Olivia Dean - (GK | RD | MV)
Ah Shit, Ah Fuck, South Mouth - (FG | WH | TM)
I’ll finally shed some light on this year’s unlikely inclusion of the raunchily named “South Mouth”. Their IG describes them as “an aggressively sexy Hillbilly Blues-Punk band from Louisville, KY,” and I can’t disagree. They’re just some dudes that Frank, Kling, Wes, & I met outside a dive bar in the Lou that wanted to bum cigs. But rules are rules, and this previously unknown band has been put on the map. They enter the pantheon of Music Week lore alongside the likes of Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, & Tyler the Creator.
Tied for 2nd, we had 15 songs added by 2 different people with the only repeat artist being Olvia Dean - So Easy (To Fall In Love) - (SS | MV).
Favorite Albums
The Life of a Showgirl was the fave album this year with 4 adds (SS | RD | MV | JV). LUX was a close second with 3 (AH | FG | TM) and then we had 8 albums with 2 nods:
lost americana, mgk - (AH | JV)
I quit, HAIM - (AH | SS)
choke enough, Oklou - (AH | TM)
Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party, Hayley Williams - (AH | TM)
.(...), Kesha - (AH | RD)
Who’s the Clown?, Audrey Hobert - (AH | GK)
SABLE, fABLE, Bon Iver - (SS | TM)
SWAG II, Justin Bieber - (RD | JV)
Of Anna’s top 10 albums, 7 of them appear on this list.
This is Taylor’s 5th album to hit the MW Archive, the most of any artist as far as I could tell. Several artists have 4 albums, including artists added this year, Justin Bieber & Ariana Grande.
Other Stuff
Once again, Jeffery Williams aka Young Thug is the only artist to appear in every Music Week ever. He’s endured his house being raided, the longest & most expensive criminal trial in Georgia history, jail time, release and probation, community service concerts in Atlanta, and is recently celebrating his engagement to, also Music Week featured artist, Mariah the Scientist. If anyone has his contact info we need to let him know about this longstanding MW accomplishment.
SAINt JHN has been dethroned as the Top Artist after a big showing from Taylor Swift. She climbs to 26 songs in the Archive with SJ now at 24.
Molly & John overlapped the most with 4 songs. Anna & I shared 2 tracks, as did: Kling & MV, Frank & Wes, Frank & I, and SMS & MV. Bucking the couple trend, Wes & Liz didn’t have any overlap despite Wes sharing the most songs this year with over 50 tracks.
Liz, Sandhage, & Sommy had no overlapping tracks with anyone. Sandhage & GM did share an artist though (flipturn). I shared 5 artists with both Anna & Frank each.
This year's playlists totaled to 392 tracks and 23h 7m, which is the largest & longest MW to date. We had 413 artists and 338 albums/singles. This brings the full archive up to 131h 11m 44s (~5.5 days).
mgk & TS had the most appearances with 5 tracks each. Taylor had 4 songs on our playlists and mgk had 3. 22% of our tracks came from artists with multiple songs.
Edge Conditions
Oldest Track: Emotions, Brenda Lee (1961, WH)
Newest Track: Reload, LYVIA (12/17/2025, JV) - JV’s playlist dropped 12/19/2025
Fastest Track: from me to u (feat. Poppy), BABYMETAL (200 BPM, WH)
Slowest Track: Chains of Love, Charli xcx (68 BPM, GK)
Longest Track: New Threats From The Soul, Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band (9m21s, FG)
Shortest Track: Coffee In The Morning, Wet (1m23s, TM)
Playlist Recs
Dr. Hoffman - iced matcha dreams 💫
Klingaling - Varsity Bars
Liz - The Roller Rink
Gweg - golden hour
Frank - Spindle
RD - Pop Frequency
Dr. Scott - Pop Sauce
MV - Pop Music Video Hits
Wes - High Rollers
Wes 🤘 - New Blood
JV - Academic Comeback
Sandhage - License To Chill
Somdog - supermoon
Trey - RADAR US
Archive Release Notes
Revised the Archive URL to: www.treymcmillon.com/mw/archive
The Albums tab now shows the top albums as selected by Contributors. It previously showed albums based on the tracks only. To view albums based on tracks, there’s now a toggle switch on the Tracks tab to show in “album mode” (i.e. albums we added songs from regardless of if they were a top album or not).
The Albums, Playlists, & Tracks tabs have a “Play Random” button at the top that will give you a random selection to listen to. A pop-up will show you the Contributor and year it was added. You can open in Spotify or pick again.
The Albums, Playlists, & Tracks tabs now show how many items are currently being displayed based on the filters/search parameters.
The Contributors tab is now sorted alphabetically by first name instead of by total number of tracks. The Contributor cards now show the number of playlists from that person.
Added a Recaps tab to link to the recaps on www.treymcmillon.com. Previous recaps will be backlogged later.
Cheer y’all - see you for MW26!
Trey