Year-End Lists

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  1. Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
  2. Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
  3. Variety: Steven J. Horowitz: The Best Albums of 2025
  4. Entertainment Weekly: The 10 Best Albums of 2025
  5. Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
  6. Variety: Chris Willman: The Best Albums of 2025
  7. New Yorker: Amanda Petrusich: The Best Albums of 2025
  8. Los Angeles Times: Mikael Wood: The 25 Best Albums of 2025
  9. The Forty-Five: The 45 Best Albums of 2025
  10. NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
  11. Time Out: The 25 Best Albums of 2025
  12. Brooklyn Vegan: Top 55 Albums of 2025
  13. Consequence: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
  14. Clash: Albums of the Year 2025
  15. PopMatters: The 80 Best Albums of 2025
  16. Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Best Albums of 2025

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