Year-End Lists

Lists

1. The Best Albums of 2025: Flood
1. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Niall Byrne: Nialler9
1. The 25 Best Albums of 2025: Evan Sawdey: Yardbarker
1. Top 10 Albums of 2025: Stephen Thompson: NPR: NPR Music
1. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Consequence
1. Best Albums of 2025: Passerby
1. The Best Albums of 2025: Callie Ahlgrim: Business Insider
1. The 20 Best Albums of 2025: Independent
1. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Guardian
1. The 20 Best Albums of 2025: Dazed
1. The 10 Best Albums of 2025: Entertainment Weekly
1. The 80 Best Albums of 2025: PopMatters
2. Albums of the Year 2025: Clash
2. The Best Albums of 2025: The Line of Best Fit
2. The 10 Best Albums of 2025: Jenn Pelly: Time
2. The Best 50 Albums of 2025: Billboard
2. The 25 Best Albums of 2025: Sunday Times
2. Top 20 Albums of 2025: Spectrum Culture
2. The 25 Best Albums of 2025: The Ringer
2. Top 10 Albums of 2025: Nate Chinen: NPR: NPR Music
2. Top 50 Albums of 2025: Beats Per Minute
2. The 45 Best Albums of 2025: The Forty-Five
2. The Top 50 Albums Of 2025: Still Listening
3. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: The Fader
3. The Best Albums of 2025: Thania Garcia: Variety
3. The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Rolling Stone
3. The Best Albums of 2025: Spencer Kornhaber: Atlantic
4. Best Albums of 2025: KCRW
4. The Best Albums of 2025: Amanda Petrusich: New Yorker
4. Albums of 2025: The Skinny
4. Best Albums of 2025: Jon Caramanica: New York Times
4. Best Albums of 2025: Les Inrocks
4. The Best Albums of 2025: Greg Kot: Sound Opinions
4. The 50 Best Albums Of 2025: Stereogum
5. Best Pop Music Albums of 2025: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer
5. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Albumism
5. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Crack Magazine
5. The Best Albums of 2025: Jem Aswad: Variety
5. The Best Albums of 2025: Steven J. Horowitz: Variety
6. Top Albums of 2025: Emilie Hanskamp
6. The Best Albums of 2025: Chris Willman: Variety
6. The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Our Culture
7. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: NME
7. Albums of the Year 2025: Dork
8. Albums of the Year 2025: Loud And Quiet
9. 25 Favourite Albums of 2025: Drowned in Sound
9. Best Albums of 2025: Northern Transmissions
9. 50 Best Albums of 2025: Exclaim
10. The Top 10 Albums of 2025: Chris Richards: Washington Post
10. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Slant
10. 10 Best Albums of 2025: Kitty Empire: Observer
13. The 25 Best Albums of 2025: Time Out
16. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Pitchfork
17. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Paste
17. Top 55 Albums of 2025: Brooklyn Vegan
19. 50 Best Albums of 2025: The Alternative
20. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Complex
25. 115 Favorite Albums Of 2025: Hanif Abdurraqib
29. Albums of the Year 2025: God Is In The TV
33. Albums of the Year 2025: Quietus
37. Top 100 Albums of 2025: Louder Than War

• The 10 Best Albums of 2025: Alan Light: Esquire
• The Best Albums of 2025: Atwood Magazine
• Top Albums of 2025: AP
• Best Albums of 2025: Lindsay Zoladz: New York Times
• The Best Music of 2025: Carl Wilson: Slate
• Best Albums of 2025: AllMusic
• Best Albums of 2025: NPR: NPR Music
• Top 10 Albums of 2025: Robin Hilton: NPR: NPR Music
• The 45 Best Albums of 2025: Vogue
• Top 10 Albums of 2025: Sheldon Pearce: NPR: NPR Music
• The Best Albums of 2025: David Hajdu: The Nation
• Top 50 Albums of 2025: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop
• Our 30 Best Albums of 2025: Boston Globe
• Top Ten Albums of 2025: Clémence Polès Farhang
• Top 25 Standout Albums of 2025: Melodic Magazine