Year-End Lists

Nate Chinen: Top 10 Albums of 2025, as published by NPR’s NPR Music

[see also 2022 • 2017 • 2011]

1. About Ghosts
   Mary Halvorson
2. Lux
   Rosalía
3. Thereupon
   Fieldwork
4. Southern Nights
   Sullivan Fortner
5. Of the Near and Far
   Patricia Brennan
6. DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
   Bad Bunny
7. Trio of Bloom
   Trio of Bloom
8. honey from a winter stone
   Ambrose Akinmusire
9. Keepers of the Eastern Door
   Chris Cheek
10. Bleeds
    Wednesday

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• Best Albums of 2025 NPR · NPR Music