The Song of the Year Is Not Debatable: It Belongs to Davido & Omah Lay

 

No song has managed to match the sheer impact of Davido’s ‘With You’ featuring Omah Lay, which is the most memorable and ubiquitous hit song of 2025.

Let’s be clear: this is a conversation about the biggest song, not the best song. When I say the biggest song of 2025, I mean the record that garnered the biggest commercial success and mass acceptance since the year started.

That said, December is just one month away, and the contenders for Song of the Year are already certain. Throughout 2025, several songs have risen to commercial success, garnering tens of millions in streams while dominating the dance floors and charts.

At a time when singles suffer shorter shelf lives due to growing saturation, which leads to low listener attention spans, some songs managed to garner mass patronage that rocketed them to hit status.

On the list of contenders for the biggest jams that have soundtracked 2025, we find stars leading from the front as seasoned hitmakers, and emerging stars whose fresh tunes connect with the mainstream.

Exploring the contenders will help identify which song stands heads and shoulders above the rest.