Koe Wetzel’s “High Road” Named iHeartRadio’s #1 Country Song Of 2025, Morgan Wallen Claims Top Country Artist

A year-end chart not claimed by Morgan Wallen.

It’s safe to say it’s been a pretty busy week for music publications and charts across the world this week. Over the course of the past four days, we’ve seen Apple drop their year-end “Apple Music Replay” which crowned Morgan Wallen’s I’m The Problem the most-listened to album on the platform, Spotify Wrapped also name I’m The Problem the most-streamed album in the U.S. (and eighth-most globally) and Billboard award both Wallen and Shaboozey on their year-end country chart.

Unsurprisingly, this resulted in the “Last Night” singer taking home Top Country Album (I’m The Problem) and Shaboozey notching his second-straight #1 spot on the Hot Country Songs chart with the continued popularity of 2024’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy).”

Though it’s safe to say that Apple Music, Spotify and Billboard are undoubtedly the most popular of the large batch of year-end charts, there’s plenty of other major streaming services/radio outlets who are slowly rolling out their charts and other data surrounding listening habits throughout 2025.

Today, it’s none other than iHeartRadio on their yearly “iHeartRewind.”

In case you’re not familiar with the overall reach of iHeart, they own over a staggering 860 different radio stations in 160 markets across the country, easily being the #1 audio company in the U.S. Beyond that, they reach an average of nine out of every 10 Americans every month, also averaging 250 million monthly listeners across their wide array of radio stations, podcasts and digital services. Simply put, their reach is huge, and it’s not just limited to the traditional radio one might think about when turning the dial in their car.

What makes iHeart’s year-end chart a bit unique compared to the likes of a streaming service such as Spotify or a traditional radio chart such as Mediabase is that it combines both spins on the plethora of different stations they own across the country with user listens/streams on the iHeartRadio app.

A brief description of their data process is the following:

“To find this data, we compiled total audience spins (TAS) and streams across iHeartRadio broadcast stations nationwide and on the iHeartRadio app.”

When it was all said and done, Koe Wetzel & Jessie Murph’s “High Road” was named the #1 Top Country Song of the 2025 on iHeartRadio, beating out the likes of Morgan Wallen’s “I’m The Problem” and “Love Somebody,” Jelly Roll’s “Liar” and Corey Kent’s “This Heart,” which all appear in the Top 5.

While it might seem a bit surprising due to the sheer dominance Wallen has shown across all the other year-end charts, “High Road” has been nothing short of a powerhouse for Wetzel. Though the “Good Die Young” singer has been one of the biggest artists flying out of the Texas scene for the better part of a decade at this point, in many ways, “High Road” was his big mainstream breakout.

Beyond its massive streaming numbers (309 million on Spotify alone), it also scored Wetzel his first-career #1 on both Billboard’s Country Airplay chart and Mediabase on its way to a 3x platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which is his highest-certified song to date.

Unsurprisingly, Morgan Wallen would claim iHeart’s Top Country Artist of 2025 spot, garnering over two billion streams across the platform throughout the year. His two billion streams also aided him to be the sixth-most listened-to artist overall on the platform, behind global superstars such as Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick Lamar and Bruno Mars.

Rounding out the Top 5 Country Artists are Jelly Roll, Jason Aldean, Luke Combs and Post Malone.

iHeart’s Top 5 Country Artists of 2025

1. Morgan Wallen
2. Jelly Roll
3. Jason Aldean
4. Luke Combs
5. Post Malone

iHeart’s Top 5 Country Songs of 2025

1. “High Road” – Koe Wetzel & Jessie Murph
2. “Liar” – Jelly Roll
3. “I’m The Problem” – Morgan Wallen
4. “Love Somebody” – Morgan Wallen
5. “This Heart” – Corey Kent

iHeart’s Top 10 Artists of 2025

1. Sabrina Carpenter (2.7B streams)
2. SZA (2.6B streams)
3. Kendrick Lamar (2.4B streams)
4. The Weeknd (2.1B streams)
5. Bruno Mars (2B streams)
6. Morgan Wallen (2B streams)
7. Lady Gaga (1.9B streams)
8. Benson Boone (1.4B streams)
9. Post Malone (1.3B streams)
10. Shaboozey (1.3B streams)