The Hideaway 37: Most Listened-To Songs for September 2025

Another month has passed, and we have a fresh batch of scrobbles. Our personal countdown today features two ties: a four-way tie for the most listened-to song and a thirty-three-way tie for the second most listened-to song, giving us The Hideaway 37 for September. Before we begin the countdown, let's take a look at the New Release albums that garnered some scrobbles in September 2025.

Curiosity got the best of me with the Spinal Tap album and accompanying mockumentary sequel. Both were pretty bad. The most surprising listen in the graphic above is David Byrne's Who Is The Sky? We really enjoyed it all the way through a couple of times. And Cut Copy has yet to disappoint us. Moments sounds a little softer than their previous works and may require further listens. We also added these new oldies to the library last month:

Can't say that the Phil Collins or Foreigner albums sound any better than they already do on the early pressings we have, but we'll always be suckers for these super deluxe edition re-releases of our favorite albums, as we already have several on pre-order that are due over the next couple of months. Joni Mitchell's genius continues to unfold before our ears, and the well-done, as always, Bowie box was more of a completist purchase than anything else, as this latter-period Bowie has yet to reveal its much-lauded attraction to us. Listening to Hot Chip has been fun over the past twenty years, but our most listened-to, new-to-the-HERChives album this past month was the 47-track deluxe edition of On The Road To Find Out from Cat Stevens/Yusef Islam. Soooooo good. We're anxiously awaiting his autobiography. And now, The Hideaway 37.

	SEPTEMBER 2025 — Top 37 Most Listened-To Songs
rank	title	artist	year
37	A Matter of Time	Los Lobos	1984
36	Love's Been A Little Bit Hard On Me	Juice Newton	1982
35	What's New Pussycat?	Tom Jones	1965
34	Girls & Boys	Blur	1994
33	Bad, Bad Leroy Brown	Jim Croce	1973
32	Drink in My Hand	Eric Church	2011
31	Always Remember Us This Way	Lady Gaga	2018
30	I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You	The Alan Parsons Project	1977
29	Save It For Later	The English Beat	1982
28	Could It Be I'm Falling in Love	The Spinners	1973
27	Just To See Her	Smokey Robinson	1987
26	Honky Tonk Women	The Rolling Stones	1969
25	Ai No Corrida	Quincy Jones feat. Dune	1981
24	This Time I Know It's for Real	Donna Summer	1989
23	Driver's Seat	Sniff 'n' the Tears	1978
22	Where The Boys Are	Connie Francis	1961
21	(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay	Otis Redding	1968
20	Danny's Song	Loggins & Messina	1972
19	I Don't Feel Like Dancin'	Scissor Sisters	2006
18	Tell Her About It	Billy Joel	1983
17	(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty	KC and The Sunshine Band	1976
16	Bust a Move	Young M.C.	1989
15	Shadrach	Beastie Boys	1989
14	Stand or Fall	The Fixx	1982
13	Top of the World	Carpenters	1973
12	Hyperactive	Thomas Dolby	1984
11	Budapest	George Ezra	2013
10	Apeman	The Kinks	1971
9	Keep the Faith	Bon Jovi	1992
8	I'll Be Good To You	Brothers Johnson	1976
7	We May Never Pass This Way (Again)	Seals & Crofts	1973
6	Please Don't Go	KC and The Sunshine Band	1979
5	The Longest Time	Billy Joel	1984
4	Home	Phillip Phillips	2012
3	Hell Is for Children	Pat Benatar	1980
2	The First Day of Summer	Tony Carey	1984
1	Abracadabra	Steve Miller Band	1982

Hard to believe, but the thirty days of September saw us register zero scrobbles on twelve days. On the other eighteen days, we tallied 2269 scrobbles. That's the lowest number of scrobbles we've had since March 2025. Two different artists had a pair of songs make The Hideaway 37: Billy Joel and KC and the Sunshine Band. The oldest song in the countdown came out in 1961, while the newest song was released in 2018. None of the thirty-seven songs has been on a previous countdown this year.

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We're flashing back this month to September 2020 for The Hideaway 41. We were listening to a little bit of everything back then, though it looks like we were especially enjoying some power pop along with two different versions of the same song in the Top 8.

	SEPTEMBER 2020 — Top 41 Most Listened-To Songs
rank	title	artist	year
41	Darlin'	Frankie Miller	1979
40	What You Want	The Roots feat. Jaguar Wright	1999
39	If You're Ready (Come Go With Me)	The Staple Singers	1973
38	Missing You	Alison Krauss with John Waite	2007
37	Lookin' Out My Back Door	Creedence Clearwater Revival	1970
36	Love Train	The O'Jays	1972
35	Jolene	Dolly Parton	1973
34	Where Have You Been All My Life	Fotomaker	1978
33	You Never Even Called Me By My Name	David Allan Coe	1975
32	Behind Closed Doors	Charlie Rich	1973
31	Undercover Of The Night	The Rolling Stones	1983
30	Rock and Roll Love Letter	Bay City Rollers	1976
29	Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)	The Rolling Stones	1973
28	Love Will Keep Us Together	Captain & Tennille	1975
27	Georgy Porgy	Toto feat. Cheryl Lynn	1979
26	Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics...)	Waylon Jennings	1977
25	Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain	Willie Nelson	1975
24	I Can Help	Billy Swan	1974
23	Sorrow	David Bowie	1973
22	Rock On	David Essex	1973
21	Gemini Dream	The Moody Blues	1981
20	Danny's Song	Anne Murray	1973
19	Talking Out Of Turn	The Moody Blues	1981
18	Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms	Buck Owens	1971
17	Time	Pink Floyd	1973
16	Swingin'	The Mavericks	1982
15	Yellow Pills	20/20	1979
14	Hungry Heart	The Mavericks	2019
13	You Made Me Believe In Magic	Bay City Rollers	1977
12	Across 110th Street	Bobby Womack & Peace	1973
11	Too Late	Shoes	1979
10	What I Like About You	The Romantics	1980
9	I Wanna Get Next To You	Rose Royce	1977
8	Fooled Around And Fell In Love	Elvin Bishop	1976
7	Rolling Along	The Mavericks	2017
6	I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend	The Rubinoos	1978
5	Shoot to Thrill	AC/DC	1980
4	Stay In Time	Off Broadway	1979
3	La Grange	ZZ Top	1973
2	Tomorrow Night	Shoes	1978
1	Fooled Around and Fell in Love	Miranda Lambert & Freinds	2019

Join us again next month as we count down our most listened-to songs from October 2025.