Spotify reveals Cairns’ users 2025 streaming habits

Spotify has revealed Cairns listeners’ favourite music in 2025, with country stars, up-and-comers and a family movie soundtrack all making the list. SEE THE RANKINGS:

Spotify has revealed Cairns listeners’ favourite songs, artists and albums for 2025, with country stars, up-and-comers and a movie soundtrack all making the list. Pictures: Brendan Radke, iStock

Music platform Spotify released its 2025 Wrapped reports today, revealing unique data about the music tastes of its Cairns users.

The annual report reveals insights to Spotify users worldwide about their listening habits, including their most-listened songs, albums, podcasts, artists and genres.

It tells users how many minutes they spent listening to music, where they fall on their favourite artists’ fan leaderboards, and even gives users a “listening age” according to their tastes.

This year Spotify released data specific to a number of Australian cities, including Cairns.

Former Youtuber Alex Warren has been a breakout star of 2025 with his single 'Ordinary'.

The number one song played by Cairns users was love ballad ‘Ordinary’ by U.S. singer Alex Warren, which was also the most-streamed song Australia-wide.

This was followed by ‘Sailor Song’ by Gigi Perez and ‘back to friends’ by sombr.

Cairns’ top artist was veteran pop star Taylor Swift, who also took out Australia’s most-streamed artist for the third year in a row.

Second place went to American country singer Morgan Wallen, followed by Canadian rapper Drake.

Cairns-based artist Greta Stanley had listeners from 180 countries this year. Picture: Instagram

Alex Warren also had the most-streamed album in Cairns with You’ll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1), followed by the soundtrack of the KPop Demon Hunters Netflix film, and Morgan Wallen’s I’m The Problem.

Australia-wide, The Wiggles were the most-streamed local artist, with the KPop Demon Hunters album the most popular album.

‘Riptide’ by Vance Joy was the top local song, followed by 1986’s ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ by Crowded House.

It was also a great year for Far North artists.

Alt-pop group Chase Atlantic, which formed in Cairns in 2014, had a huge year. Picture: Instagram

Alt-pop group Chase Atlantic, who hail from Cairns, had a whopping 1.8 billion streams from 70.6m listeners in 2025, spanning a total of 184 countries.

Singer-songwriter Emma Louise, who grew up in Cairns and released an album title DUMB with Flume this year, had 7.8m listeners in 2025, totalling 37.3m streams.

Cairns-based artist Greta Stanley also shared on social media that she had 1.5m listeners from 180 countries this year, totalling 9.6m streams.

Originally published as Spotify reveals Cairns’ users 2025 streaming habits