2025 Apple Replay

It’s the time of the year where folks do free advertising for their platform of choice share their yearly round-up of music they listened to. While it has its limits, I always have some curiosity about what my provider (Apple) catalogs about me during the year.

For the most part, there isn’t anything too surprising, aside from the fact that I apparently listened to a lot of ScHoolboy Q in July. I really don’t understand that one. I would have expected to see some more of my weightlifting soundtrack — Gather, Time X Heist, Strife, and Earth Crisis — make an appearance, but I guess I haven’t succeeded at becoming a straight edge gym bro yet.

Also, as someone who works on the web, I was a bit disappointed by how Apple presents their Replay. It’s all JavaScript-based and they do things like disabling the copy function and not presenting the content inside the HTML, so it was a drag generating the list. I ended up having to take screenshots and using an AI tool to parse them for the lists. Not exactly user friendly!

Top Artists by Month

• January: Slowdive
• February: Liz Phair
• March: Guns N’ Roses
• April: Guns N’ Roses
• May: Conflict
• June: awakebutstillinbed
• July: ScHoolboy Q
• August: Yasunori Nishiki
• September: Boysetsfire
• October: Nirvana
• November: Camp Cope

Top Albums

1. Chaos Takes the Wheel and I Am a Passenger — awakebutstillinbed
2. Friends In Real Life — Friends In Real Life
3. Short n’ Sweet — Sabrina Carpenter
4. OCTOPATH TRAVELER II Original Soundtrack — Yasunori Nishiki
5. This Much Remains — Conflict
6. American Thighs — Veruca Salt
7. Persona 5 Royal Original Soundtrack — Lyn / ATLUS Sound Team
8. Lucky for You — Bully
9. Garbage (20th Anniversary Edition) — Garbage
10. After the Eulogy — Boysetsfire
11. Brave Faces Everyone — Spanish Love Songs
12. This Bitter Garden — For Your Health
13. Look! A Rainbow! — Kara’s Walk Home
14. Use Your Illusion II — Guns N’ Roses
15. Whip-Smart — Liz Phair

Top Artists

1. awakebutstillinbed
2. Guns N’ Roses
3. Nirvana
4. Metallica
5. Fifteen
6. Apes of the State
7. Sabrina Carpenter
8. Liz Phair
9. Friends In Real Life
10. Bad Religion
11. Boysetsfire
12. Mineral
13. Propagandhi
14. Everyone Asked About You
15. ATLUS Sound Team