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2025 Music

Variety: Chris Willman: The Best Albums of 2025

23 December 2025

Returning to Myself - Brandi Carlile

Chris Willman: The Best Albums of 2025, as published by Variety

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018]

  1. Returning to Myself
    Brandi Carlile
  2. West End Girl
    Lily Allen
  3. Forever Is a Feeling
    Lucy Dacus
  4. The Life of a Showgirl
    Taylor Swift
  5. Nobody's Girl
    Amanda Shires
  6. Lux
    Rosalía
  7. Foxes in the Snow
    Jason Isbell
  8. Mayhem
    Lady Gaga
  9. Now Then
    Robbie Fulks
  10. Moisturizer
    Wet Leg

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