TikTok Newsroom (year-end music recap)
2025-12-09 09:00:00
According to TikTok’s Newsroom recap, Connie Francis’ “Pretty Little Baby” was crowned the platform’s 2025 ‘Track of the Year,’ showing how old catalog music can surge back into the mainstream through short-form video.
The report highlighted how creators used the audio across wholesome family, pet and everyday-life clips—turning a vintage record into a modern soundtrack at massive scale.
Rolling Stone wrote: “TikTok names Connie Francis’ 1962 hit ‘Pretty Little Baby’ the Top Global Song of 2025.”
Forbes noted: “ ‘Pretty Little Baby’… garnered 68.6 billion views across 28.4 million TikTok videos this year.”
Analysis/Echotitbits take: Expect labels to keep mining catalogs for “TikTokable” hooks. Watch next for sync deals, re-releases and playlist pushes that follow viral moments—and for which legacy songs become the next global audio trend.
Source: TikTok Newsroom — Dec 09, 2025 — https://newsroom.tiktok.com/tiktok-reveals-the-top-artists-and-songs-of-2025?lang=en
