Year-End Lists

The Boston Globe: Our 30 Best Albums of 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022]

• Black Star
  Amaarae
• Dedicated to Cadalee Biarritz
  Big K.R.I.T.
• Star Line
  Chance the Rapper
• Let God Sort Em Out
  Clipse
• Euro-Country
  CMAT
• Forever Is a Feeling
  Lucy Dacus
• Lonely People with Power
  Deafheaven
• My Heart Is an Outlaw
  Casey Dienel
• Billionaire
  Kathleen Edwards
• Getting Killed
  Geese
• In the Shade of the Living Light
  Gold Dust
• Multidirectional
  Billy Hart
• 1985: The Miracle Year
  Hüsker Dü
• That's Showbiz Baby
  Jade
• Tropicoqueta
  Karol G
• Mayhem
  Lady Gaga
• Mass Appeal: Legend Has It Series
• Hola Texas!
  The Mexican Standoff
• Pain to Power
  Maruja
• Strange Heavens
  Linda May Han Oh
• Saving Grace
  Robert Plant with Suzi Dian
• Legado
  Plena Libre
• Lethal
  Rico Nasty
• Lux
  Rosalía
• Reflections on: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
  Mark Turner
• Never Enough
  Turnstile
• Twilight Override
  Jeff Tweedy
• Don't Tap the Glass
  Tyler, The Creator
• Moisturizer
  Wet Leg
• When I Write the Song
  Jake Worthington