Italian annual official music charts 2025 celebrates Italian leadership

06 January 2026 - Press release

YOUNG ACT OLLY DOMINATES ALBUMS AND SINGLES, RAPPER CAPAREZZA TOPS THE PHYSICAL CHART

Consumption, records and trends in the Italian music market in 2025

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The soundtrack of 2025 in Italy is strongly dominated by local music: it’s the result portrayed by the annual Top of the Music by FIMI/NIQ charts - which comprehensively cover all channels (physical, digital, both premium and free audio streaming, video streaming).

In a year marked by the strong presence of global superstars - from Bad Bunny to Taylor Swift - Italian repertoire remains at the heart of Italian consumption, accounting for 85% of the Top 100 Albums: an extraordinary result compared to 2015, when the figure stood at 69%.

The year when pop returns to the top
2025 marks a shift in musical genres within the charts: alongside the now well-established strength of urban repertoire, pop returns to center stage, reclaiming the top positions. This change is reflected in theannual FIMI/NIQ charts (December 27, 2024 – December 25, 2025), which feature the following podiums.

In the Top 100 Albums & Compilations, pop songwriter Olly dominates with Tutta vita, taking first place ahead of Santana Money Gang by trappers Sfera Ebbasta & Shiva and Dio lo sa by Geolier, completing a podium that captures the meeting point between new pop sensibilities and urban roots.

The same balance emerges in the Top 100 Singles, where Olly once again reaches the top with Balorda nostalgia, followed by iconic pop singer Giorgia with La cura per me, while pop act Achille Lauro closes the podium with Incoscienti giovani.

In the Top 20 CDs, Vinyl and Music Cassettes, established rapper Caparezza leads with Orbit orbit, ahead of Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl, while Olly returns to the spotlight with Tutta vita, confirming a strong cross-format presence.

  

Consumption formats and market dynamics
2025 confirms streaming as the central engine of Italian music consumption: over the course of the year, total listening volume (premium and free) came close to 100 billion streams, marking a 5.3% increase compared to 2024.

This is a steady growth with real consumption peaks: for the second consecutive year, in the final week of the year the market surpassed the threshold of 2 billion weekly streams, a milestone that had already been nearly reached in week 08 (February 14–20), immediately after the Sanremo Music Festival.

The scale of this shift is also reflected in the volumes achieved by the most successful projects: in 2025,245 albums surpassed 30 million streams (premium + free), almost double (+96%) the number of albums that, ten years earlier, exceeded 10,000 copies in physical sales and downloads - which stood at 125 in 2015.

Within this scenario, the physical segment maintains a solid presence, outlining an ecosystem in which tradition and innovation coexist. In 2025, format share is distributed among CDs (50.7%), vinyl (47.1%), and a residual share of music cassettes and other physical formats (2.2%).

 

Certifications and other records
In 2025, a total of 421 certifications were assigned, divided among 316 albums, 5 compilations and 100 singles. The relatively limited number is linked to the revision of single certification thresholds starting from week 01/2025, which effectively doubled the required units in order to accurately reflect the evolution of the Italian music market and the growth in digital consumption.

During 2025, 24 albums managed to maintain a continuous presence in the Top 100 for all 52 weeks of the year, a result that highlights strong consumption stability. Among these, only one international title kept pace with Italian productions: Papercuts by Linkin Park.

Records for chart presence and productivity were also set: in 2025 four artists - Marracash, Pinguini Tattici Nucleari, Sfera Ebbasta and Tony Boy - achieved the simultaneous presence of five albums on the chart in the same week.

Not only the Italian market is changing, but also its face: the Top 10 Albums continues to grow younger, asover the past ten years the average age of artists has dropped from 34.6 in 2015 to 31.3 in 2025, portraying a scene that keeps renewing itself and looking increasingly toward the future.