New Year's Sound Waves: Viral tracks supplant classics

The music service “Sound” analyzed the listening of users during the New Year holidays of 2025-2026 and found interesting trends. Viral tracks from social networks, especially "Betsy, Ded M" and "Basic Minimum" (Sabi, Mia Boyka), became the most popular during this period, ahead of the traditional New Year classics. The top included other hits: “New Year’s Eve” (Disco Accident), “Mother” (Tatyana Kurtukova), meme song “Crow” (Kanny and MS Dymka), “Bank” (Icegergert and Zivert), “Tell, Snow Maiden” (Sasha Komovich), created by artificial intelligence, and “Dancefloor everywhere” (Anna Nemchenko). Of particular interest was the use of the songs “January Blizzard Rings” (ANNA ASTI), “Last Christmas” (Wham!), “New Year’s Song” (The Limba, JONY, EGOR KREED, A4) and “The State Anthem of the Russian Federation”. Analysts of “Sound” note the growing influence of social networks on music preferences and the appearance in the playlists of songs created by artificial intelligence. New New Year’s charts reflect not only nostalgia, but also technological progress in the field of music.