Tina Knowles’ ‘Matriarch’ Finishes 2025 as Spotify Wrapped’s Top Music Memoir
Tina Knowles is that girl. As Billboard can exclusively reveal, the mogul’s Matriarch memoir finishes in first place among the most-listened music memoirs on Spotify in 2025.
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The news comes on the same day Spotify unveiled its annual Wrapped on Wednesday (Dec. 3), providing users with custom summaries of their listening habits in addition to announcing which artists and podcasters got the most streaming love on the platform over the past 12 months. This year, audiobooks are included in Wrapped for the first time ever.
With Matriarch finishing the year as Spotify’s top music memoir audiobook, Fahrenheit-182 by Mark Hoppus and Dan Ozzi and Night People: How to Be a DJ in ‘90s New York City by Mark Ronson earned second and third place, respectively. Behind them, in order, were Bread of Angels by Patti Smith, Only God Can Judge Me by Jeff Pearlman, Last Rites by Ozzy Osbourne, Truly by Lionel Richie, Cudi by Kid Cudi, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You by Neko Case and Heartbreaker by Mike Campbell.
The top books overall on the platform were the novels Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, Lights Out by Navessa Allen and Iron Flame, also by Yarros.
Published in April, Matriarch shares Knowles’ insights into raising daughters Beyoncé and Solange from childhood to their adulthood as two of the biggest names in music. She also delved into her recent breast cancer battle, from receiving the diagnosis last year to undergoing surgery, during which doctors successfully removed the entire tumor.
When the memoir topped The New York Times‘ hardcover nonfiction bestsellers list, Bey wrote on Instagram, “The Mama T was that good?? Ha … You deserve it, I’m so proud!”
Shortly afterward, the 35-time Grammy winner brought her mom out on stage at a Cowboy Carter Tour show so that the crowd could join her in congratulating the author.
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