Year-End Lists

Lists

1. The Best Albums of 2025: Craig Jenkins: New York: Vulture
2. The Best Albums of 2025: Coup De Main
2. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Pitchfork
3. The Best Albums of 2025: Amanda Petrusich: New Yorker
3. The Best Albums of 2025: Jem Aswad: Variety
4. The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Rolling Stone
4. Best Southern Albums of 2025: Bitter Southerner
5. The 25 Best Albums of 2025: Mikael Wood: Los Angeles Times
5. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Paste
5. The Best Albums of 2025: Callie Ahlgrim: Business Insider
5. The Best Albums of 2025: Spencer Kornhaber: Atlantic
5. The Best Albums of 2025: Flood
6. Best Albums of 2025: Lindsay Zoladz: New York Times
6. The 25 Best Albums of 2025: The Ringer
6. The 20 Best Albums of 2025: Dazed
6. Best Pop Music Albums of 2025: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer
8. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Slant
9. The 50 Best Albums Of 2025: Stereogum
11. 115 Favorite Albums Of 2025: Hanif Abdurraqib
11. The 25 Best Albums of 2025: Evan Sawdey: Yardbarker
12. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Crack Magazine
12. Albums of 2025: The Skinny
13. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: The Fader
13. Best Albums of 2025: Northern Transmissions
13. 50 Best Albums of 2025: Exclaim
14. The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Our Culture
17. The Best 50 Albums of 2025: Billboard
20. Albums of the Year 2025: Clash
20. Best Albums of 2025: Obscure Sound
26. Albums of the Year 2025: Dork
27. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Complex
27. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Consequence
30. Albums of 2025: Gorilla vs. Bear
33. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: NME
36. 50 Best Albums of 2025: The Alternative

• The Best Albums of 2025: Atwood Magazine
• Top Albums of 2025: AP
• The Best Music of 2025: Carl Wilson: Slate
• Best Albums of 2025: AllMusic
• The Best Albums Of 2025: Essence
• The 45 Best Albums of 2025: Vogue
• Top 50 Albums of 2025: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop
• 10 Favorite New Albums of 2025: Hazel Cills
• Favorite Albums of 2025: Tone Glow
• Top 25 Standout Albums of 2025: Melodic Magazine