Year-End Lists

Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2025, as posted on his YouTube channel, The Needle Drop

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Let God Sort Em Out
   Clipse
2. The Passionate Ones
   Nourished By Time
3. Getting Killed
   Geese
4. You're Weird Now
   Guerilla Toss
5. Goldstar
   Imperial Triumphant
6. Revengeseekerz
   Jane Remover
7. Viagr Aboys
   Viagra Boys
8. Portrait of My Heart
   Spellling
9. Magic, Alive!
   McKinley Dixon
10. Sinister Grift
    Panda Bear
11. Only Dust Remains
    Backxwash
12. Pirouette
    Model/Actriz
13. Lotus
    Little Simz
14. Femme Fatale
    Mon Laferte
15. Forever Howlong
    Black Country, New Road
16. goodbye, world!
    miffle
17. The Film
    Sumac and Moor Mother
18. I Love My Computer
    Ninajirachi
19. Snipe Hunter
    Tyler Childers
20. Tether
    Annahstasia
21. Vanisher, Horizon Scraper
    Quadeca
22. Rock Doido
    Gaby Amarantos
23. Fairyland Codex
    Tropical Fuck Storm
24. Cancionera
    Natalia Lafourcade
25. Lonely People with Power
    Deafheaven
26. Soft Spot
    Honningbarna
27. Something Beautiful
    Miley Cyrus
28. Worldwide
    Snõõper
29. The Spiritual Sound
    Agriculture
30. Eusexua
    FKA twigs
31. Tranquilizer
    Oneohtrix Point Never
32. The Sword & The Soaring
    Navy Blue
33. A City Drowned in God's Black Tears
    Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals
34. The Hives Forever Forever the Hives
    The Hives
35. Noble and Godlike in Ruin
    Deerhoof
36. DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
    Bad Bunny
37. Stardust
    Danny Brown
38. Pain to Power
    Maruja
39. Cabin in the Sky
    De La Soul
40. Don't Tap the Glass
    Tyler, The Creator
41. Black Hole Superette
    Aesop Rock
42. Nested in Tangles
    Hannah Frances
43. Balloonerism
    Mac Miller
44. God Does Like Ugly
    JID
45. In The Earth Again
    Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo
46. Hurry Up Tomorrow
    The Weeknd
47. Phonetics On and On
    Horsegirl
48. Sable, Fable
    Bon Iver
49. Tomorrow We Escape
    Ho99o9
50. Live Laugh Love
    Earl Sweatshirt

Honorable Mentions

• Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
  Hayley Williams
• Black British Music
  Jim Legxacy
• sankofa
  redveil
• Lux
  Rosalía
• Golliwog
  Billy Woods
• Iconoclasts
  Anna von Hausswolff
• The BPM
  Sudan Archives
• Bleeds
  Wednesday
• Fancy That
  PinkPantheress
• Baby
  Dijon
• Dead Channel Sky
  clipping.