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The Forty-Five: The 45 Best Albums of 2025

03 December 2025

The Forty-Five: The 45 Best Albums of 2025

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

  1. West End Girl
    Lily Allen
  2. Lux
    Rosalía
  3. That's Showbiz Baby
    Jade
  4. Euro-Country
    CMAT
  5. Belong
    Jay Som
  6. It's a Beautiful Place
    Water From Your Eyes
  7. Fancy That
    PinkPantheress
  8. Eusexua
    FKA twigs
  9. Addison
    Addison Rae
  10. The Clearing
    Wolf Alice
  11. Choke Enough
    Oklou
  12. Straight Line Was a Lie
    The Beths
  13. Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
    Hayley Williams
  14. Like a Ribbon
    John Glacier
  15. Louder, Please
    Rose Gray
  16. Mayhem
    Lady Gaga
  17. Black Star
    Amaarae
  18. Lotus
    Little Simz
  19. Everybody Scream
    Florence + The Machine
  20. Moisturizer
    Wet Leg
  21. The Art of Loving
    Olivia Dean
  22. Who Let the Dogs Out
    Lambrini Girls
  23. Virgin
    Lorde
  24. If You Asked for a Picture
    Blondshell
  25. Bleeds
    Wednesday
  26. Forever Is a Feeling
    Lucy Dacus
  27. A Complicated Woman
    Self Esteem
  28. Lei Keli ft. 47 / For Promotional Use Only
    Leikeli47
  29. Tether
    Annahstasia
  30. Glutton for Punishment
    Heartworms
  31. The Painful Truth
    Skunk Anansie
  32. Slowly, It Dawns
    Victoria Canal
  33. Parasites & Butterflies
    Nova Twins
  34. Some Like It Hot
    Bar Italia
  35. You Are The Morning
    jasmine.4.t
  36. For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)
    Japanese Breakfast
  37. Precipice
    Indigo De Souza
  38. Friend
    james K
  39. I Quit
    Haim
  40. Woman Of Faces
    Celeste
  41. Luminescent Creatures
    Ichiko Aoba
  42. Panic Shack
    Panic Shack
  43. Jump Into Life
    Sacred Paws
  44. hexed!
    aya
  45. Lágrimas De Primavera
    Letters from my Garden

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