Year-End Lists

Dan DeLuca: Best Pop Music Albums of 2025, as published by The Philadelphia Inquirer

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

1. Snipe Hunter
   Tyler Childers
2. Bleeds
   Wednesday
3. Always Been
   Craig Finn
4. Getting Killed
   Geese
5. Lux
   Rosalía
6. Baby
   Dijon
7. The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy
   James McMurtry
8. Let God Sort Em Out
   Clipse
9. Fancy That
   PinkPantheress
10. Sounds Like...
    Florry

Honorable Mentions

• West End Girl
  Lily Allen
• Headlights
  Alex G
• Again
  The Belair Lip Bombs
• Earthstar Mountain
  Hannah Cohen
• New Threats from the Soul
  Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
• Horror
  Mekons
• Snocaps
  Snocaps
• LOTTO
  They Are Gutting a Body of Water
• Twilight Override
  Jeff Tweedy
• Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
  Hayley Williams