Tina Knowles’ “Matriarch” Named Spotify Wrapped’s Top Music Memoir of 2025

Tina Knowles’ memoir, Matriarch, finished 2025 as the most-streamed music memoir audiobook on Spotify, according to data released with the platform’s annual Wrapped update on December 3, 2025. This year’s Wrapped also marked the first time Spotify included audiobooks in its year-end summaries.

Matriarch led Spotify’s list of music memoirs for the year. Rounding out the top three were Fahrenheit-182 by Mark Hoppus and Dan Ozzi in second and Mark Ronson’s Night People: How to Be a DJ in ’90s New York City in third. Other notable memoirs that made the ranking include Patti Smith’s Bread of Angels, Jeff Pearlman’s Only God Can Judge Me, Ozzy Osbourne’s Last Rites, Lionel Richie’s Truly, Kid Cudi’s Cudi, Neko Case’s The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, and Mike Campbell’s Heartbreaker.

On the broader audiobook front, Spotify listeners favored fiction this year: Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth Wing and Iron Flame, along with Navessa Allen’s Lights Out, were among the platform’s most-played titles overall.

Released in April, Matriarch chronicles Knowles’ experience raising daughters Beyoncé and Solange as they rose to global prominence, and it candidly addresses her recent breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. After the book reached The New York Times’ hardcover nonfiction best-sellers list, Beyoncé celebrated her mother’s success on social media and later invited Knowles onstage during a Cowboy Carter Tour stop so fans could applaud her.