Year-End Lists

Lists

2. The 50 Best Albums Of 2025: Stereogum
2. Best Pop Music Albums of 2025: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer
2. The Best Albums of 2025: Greg Kot: Sound Opinions
2. 50 Best Albums of 2025: The Alternative
2. The Best Albums of 2025: Jim DeRogatis: Sound Opinions
3. Favorite Albums of 2025: Grace Robins-Somerville
4. 80 Best Albums of 2025: Uncut
4. The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Our Culture
4. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Treble
4. Top 55 Albums of 2025: Brooklyn Vegan
4. Top 20 Albums of 2025: Spectrum Culture
5. The 80 Best Albums of 2025: PopMatters
5. The 25 Best Albums of 2025: The Ringer
6. 50 Best Albums of 2025: Exclaim
6. Best Albums of 2025: Obscure Sound
6. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Pitchfork
8. The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Rolling Stone
8. The Best Albums of 2025: Flood
10. Top 50 Albums of 2025: Beats Per Minute
10. Best Albums of 2025: Northern Transmissions
12. The Best Albums of 2025: Amanda Petrusich: New Yorker
12. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Consequence
12. The Best Albums of 2025: No Ripcord
12. Top 30 Albums of 2025: Jordan Cronk
12. Top Albums of 2025: Emilie Hanskamp
13. Albums of 2025: The Skinny
15. Favorite Albums of 2025: Steven Hyden: Uproxx
17. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Slant
17. 45 Favorite Albums of My 2025: Brad Luen
18. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Paste
21. Top 100 Albums of 2025: Under the Radar
24. The Best Albums of 2025: The Line of Best Fit
25. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Guardian
25. The 45 Best Albums of 2025: The Forty-Five
30. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Far Out
33. Best Albums of 2025: Stephen Thomas Erlewine
37. 115 Favorite Albums Of 2025: Hanif Abdurraqib
42. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: NME
50. Albums of the Year 2025: Clash

• The 10 Best Albums of 2025: Alan Light: Esquire
• The Best Albums of 2025: Atwood Magazine
• The Best Albums of 2025: Craig Jenkins: New York: Vulture
• 20 Best Albums of 2025: Glide
• Top Albums of 2025: AP
• The Best Music of 2025: Carl Wilson: Slate
• Top 10 Albums of 2025: Ann Powers: NPR: NPR Music
• Best Albums of 2025: NPR: NPR Music
• Top 50 Albums of 2025: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop
• My Favorite Albums of 2025: Kelsie Herzog: The Yellow Button
• The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Josh Terry
• 10 Favorite New Albums of 2025: Hazel Cills