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The Music That Defined Netflix in 2025: “Golden,” “The Dead Dance,” and More
Did these songs top your Spotify Wrapped?
By Caitlin Busch
Dec. 3, 2025
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It’s time to take a moment to look back on the year and reflect. What have we learned about ourselves? What were we watching? What were we listening to? Who are we as people, really?! This week, for example, music listeners all over the world are checking their soundtrack to 2025 via the cultural phenomenon that is Spotify Wrapped. The music streamer — whose partnership with Netflix was announced in October 2025 — dropped its annual review of listeners’ sonic habits this week, and sparked a debate about the year’s best tracks. So, in the spirit of year-end lists, let’s head down memory lane and review the top hits from Netflix shows in 2025 — the Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack, RAYE belting it out in Black Rabbit, and more. To quote Eddie Munson, “This is music.”
KPop Demon Hunters
Rumi (Arden Cho), Mira (May Hong), and Zoey (Ji-young Yoo) — the K-pop superstars whose animated KPop Demon Hunters movie inspired hearts, minds, and Halloween costumes this year — topped the Billboard charts with “Golden,” their hit single about standing together and believing in yourself. And if that song just so happens to help them fight demons? Even better.
House of Guinness
House of Guinness creator Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) regularly incorporates modern music in his historical series, and this one about the succession battle for Ireland’s famed brewing company is no different. In the premiere episode, Irish hip-hop group Kneecap’s “Get Your Brits Out” gets a hell of a needle drop as citizens in Dublin protest the Guinness patriarch’s funeral procession — only for the factory workers, led by foreman Sean Rafferty (James Norton), to come out swinging in their employer’s defense.
Stranger Things
The first batch of Stranger Things Season 5 episodes came with another batch of ’80s hits worthy of the final fight against Vecna. (Even if some of us still have “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” by Kate Bush stuck in our heads 24/7 from its big moment in the show’s fourth season.) Among the new slew of old bops is a 1972 classic, “Rockin’ Robin” by Michael Jackson. The song is an anthem of sorts for Robin Buckley (Maya Hawke) and her radio show “The Morning Squawk,” which acts as some much-needed entertainment for the quarantined residents of Hawkins, Indiana, and might have another, more covert purpose, too.
Black Rabbit
British singer-songwriter RAYE covered Dinah Washington’s jazz standard “What a Difference a Day Makes” for Black Rabbit, a limited series about a pair of brothers (played by Jason Bateman and Jude Law) who open a restaurant and VIP lounge in New York City. RAYE makes an appearance as herself, exchanging cheeky kisses with Law’s character and driving home the sultry vibes as she performs the song onstage.
Wednesday
Wednesday returned for Season 2 at Nevermore Academy, and with it came an instant dance pop hit, Lady Gaga’s “The Dead Dance.” Gaga crafted this original song specifically for the series, and Enid (Emma Myers) and Agnes (Evie Templeton) added the bewitching, macabre choreography that kept their classmates entranced as Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) observed from the sidelines and Thing boogied like only he can.
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