The Hideaway 20: The 46 Most-Listened To Songs from October 2025

Welcome to our monthly look back at our most scrobbled songs. We managed to listen to 3,319 unique songs across the thirty-one days of October, including seven scrobble-free days. We ended up with a clear most-listened to song, followed by a four-way tie for second most-listened to song, and a forty-one song tie for third most listened to song. It all adds up to The Hideaway 46. "Could It Be I'm Falling In Love" at #21 is the only song that has been featured previously this year, and it was just featured in September at #28. Our most-listened-to artist in October was Billy Joel, while our most-listened-to album for the month was The Beatles 1967-1970. The Blue Album remains our most-listened-to album through the first ten months of 2025.

	OCTOBER 2025 — Top 46 Most Listened-To Songs
rank	title	artist	year
46	Money for Nothing	Dire Straits	1985
45	Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey	Paul and Linda McCartney	1971
44	Jackson	Johnny Cash and June Carter	1967
43	'65 Love Affair	Paul Davis	1981
42	You're the Only Woman (You and I)	Ambrosia	1980
41	Horny Toad	Prince	1983
40	Think	Aretha Franklin	1968
39	Build A B*tch	Bella Poarch	2021
38	Fist City	Loretta Lynn	1968
37	Runaway	Janet Jackson	1995
36	I Want to Break Free	Queen	1984
35	Perfect Strangers	Deep Purple	1984
34	When You're Hot, You're Hot	Jerry Reed	1971
33	Spiders & Snakes	Jim Stafford	1974
32	Let's Stay Together	Al Green	1971
31	What You Want	The Roots feat. Jaguar	1999
30	Grease	Frankie Valli	1978
29	King Of The Road	Roger Miller	1964
28	I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better	The Byrds	1965
27	(Every Time I Turn Around) Back In Love Again	L.T.D.	1977
26	Eat Me Alive	Judas Priest	1984
25	Alison	Elvis Costello	1977
24	Nothing Else Matters	Metallica	1991
23	Little T&A	Rolling Stones	1981
22	Lucky Love [Acoustic]	Ace of Base	1995
21	Could It Be I'm Falling in Love	The Spinners	1972
20	I Wish	Stevie Wonder	1976
19	(The World Don't Need) Another Lover	Giant Steps	1988
18	No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems	Kenny Chesney	2002
17	People Got To Be Free	The Rascals	1968
16	He Loves Me All the Way	Tammy Wynette	1970
15	You Haven't Done Nothin'	Stevie Wonder	1974
14	Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)	Dramarama	1985
13	Holly Rock	Sheila E.	1985
12	Werewolves of London	Warren Zevon	1978
11	Baby Got Back	Sir Mix-A-Lot	1992
10	Right Here, Right Now	Fatboy Slim	1998
9	You Got That Right	Lynyrd Skynyrd	1977
8	Conquistador [live]	Procol Harum	1972
7	Who Made Who	AC/DC	1986
6	One's On The Way	Loretta Lynn	1971
5	Come A Little Bit Closer	Jay & The Americans	1964
4	The Weight	The Band	1968
3	You Know My Name	Chris Cornell	2006
2	The One I Love	R.E.M.	1987
1	I Got 5 On It	Luniz	1995

For this month's flashback chart, we hop back to our Top 20 Most-Listened-To Songs from October 2021, featuring a song we first fell in love with after repeatedly playing it in the Target store about a mile from our house. Scroll down past the album covers for the rest of the story.

		OCTOBER 2021 — Top 20 Most Listened-To Songs
2021	rank	title	artist	year
25	20	I Disappear	Metallica	2000
9	19	Back on the Road Again	REO Speedwagon	1979
5	18	Into the Night	Santana feat. Chad Kroeger	2007
19	17	What Is Hip?	Tower of Power	1973
4	16	Rock On	David Essex	1973
278	15	Lookin' for Love	Johnny Lee	1980
399	14	Small Town Saturday Night	Hal Ketchum	1991
149	13	Joey	Concrete Blonde	1990
15	12	Head Over Boots	Jon Pardi	2015
13	11	Can't Hold Us	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton	2012
20	10	Pump It Up	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	1978
8	9	Walk	Foo Fighters	2011
2	8	Shoot to Thrill	AC/DC	1980
10	7	Teenage Kicks	The Undertones	1978
1	6	Feel It Still	Portugal. The Man	2017
11	5	Dani California	Red Hot Chili Peppers	2006
12	4	Rolling Along	The Mavericks	2017
50	3	Wildfire	Michael Martin Murphey	1975
68	2	Going Under	Devo	1981
18	1	Swingin'	The Mavericks	2019

My first experience with Sonos was in a Target store in 2012 or 2013. They had a hands-on display with a Play:3 and the larger Play:5 speaker. There were four or five songs representing various genres of music that could be demoed on either speaker. I couldn't believe how well "Can't Hold Us" (#11 in the countdown above) sounded on the Play:5, whether at high or low volume. I finally made the leap into Sonos in late 2019 and have continued to add speakers throughout the house since then. Setup has always been quick, easy, and painless with zero issues after a speaker was up and running. It takes more time to unbox the speaker from its elaborate packaging than to connect it. Never experienced (Knock on wood!) any of the many, many catastrophic issues users were reporting in the aftermath of the updated app in May 2024, other than the ARC kicking on once in the middle of the night and waking me up with a rap song I don't have in my digital library.