YouTube Launches Artist Recap: What You Need to Know

YouTube has rolled out the 2025 Artist Recap, a refreshed, mobile-first experience that highlights how fans discovered and engaged with your music throughout the year. Available exclusively in the YouTube Studio app, this year’s Recap introduces a new visual design, improved storytelling, and creative sharing tools that make it easier for artists to celebrate milestones and reconnect with their audience.

Here’s everything you need to know about the new Artist Recap — and how to make the most of it.

Where to Find Your Artist Recap

The Artist Recap is available only inside the YouTube Studio mobile app.

To access it:

1. Open YouTube Studio
2. Tap the Analytics tab
3. Select the Recap card beneath your Overview

The Recap covers activity from January 1 to November 15, 2025, and remains available until January 31, 2026.

Learn more about Artist Recap here.

If you’re supporting multiple artists or running a label, this is a useful moment to encourage your roster to check in, share their wins, and align on what these signals mean for the year ahead.

What’s New in the 2025 Artist Recap

A New Art Direction

This year’s Recap introduces a cleaner visual approach, making cards more shareable and easier for fans to understand at a glance.

Top Music Video Highlight

For the first time, artists receive a dedicated card showing their top-performing music video — a strong reference point for storytelling and a useful benchmark for content planning.

Create a Short with Green Screen

A new “Create a Short” option lets artists turn their stats into a Green Screen background and record a message directly for fans. This supports YouTube’s wider push toward creator-led storytelling and offers artists a simple way to generate engaging, platform-native content.

Smarter, Clearer Insight Cards

The 2025 Recap includes focused insights across: • Total views and watch time • Best-performing day and month • Biggest song by 2025 views • Number of UGC Shorts featuring your music • Top countries and regions • Performance highlights from your latest release

These insights give teams a snapshot of how fans engaged with content across YouTube and YouTube Music — data that can help guide release cycles, marketing calendars, and content strategy.

Learn more about Artist Recap here.

Make the Most of Your 2025 Recap

If you or your artists haven’t viewed their Recap yet, now is the perfect moment to dive in, share milestones, and build momentum going into the new year.

To explore YouTube’s full set of tools, tutorials, and best practices, visit the updated YouTube for Artists hub here:

artists.youtube/resources