Katseye, Taylor Swift and Connie Francis were all singled out with major honors in TikTok’s 2025 year‑end music awards and rankings. Each of them topped a different “top” category.
What Katseye won
- Katseye was named TikTok’s Global Artist of the Year for 2025, reflecting more than 30 billion views and around 12 million video creations using their music.
- Their tracks such as “Gnarly” and “Gabriela” drove large dance and trend waves, helping secure this top global artist recognition.
What Taylor Swift received
- Taylor Swift was named TikTok’s Global Most‑Saved Artist of 2025, based on how often users used the “Add to Music App” feature to save her songs.
- Many of those saves came from her album “The Life of a Showgirl,” which TikTok highlighted as a major driver of her dominance on the platform in 2025.
What Connie Francis received
- Connie Francis’s 1962 song “Pretty Little Baby” was named TikTok’s Global Song of the Year and Top U.S. Song for 2025 after going massively viral.
- The track inspired more than 28 million TikTok videos and tens of billions of views, and the renewed attention pushed it to over 130 million streams and onto the Billboard Global 200.
