Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.
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2025 Music

NPR Music: Best Albums of 2025

11 December 2025

NPR: Best Albums of 2025, taking one top album from team member

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Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, I make no tallies.