Top 100 Music Albums of 2025
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LedZep 
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- (Created: 01/12/2025 08:54).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Best of May
Billy Woods delivers one of the most experimental, grim, and moody records of his career. The dude can't miss, and this might be the best he’s ever rapped and sounded. It’s incredible that after years of listening to Woods, Backwoodz Studioz and affiliated artists, I’m still taken aback by just how great he manages to sound on each new record. [First added to this chart: 05/09/2025]
Billy Woods delivers one of the most experimental, grim, and moody records of his career. The dude can't miss, and this might be the best he’s ever rapped and sounded. It’s incredible that after years of listening to Woods, Backwoodz Studioz and affiliated artists, I’m still taken aback by just how great he manages to sound on each new record. [First added to this chart: 05/09/2025]
Best of September
It's been a while since a pretty typical indie record has completely stunned me like this one. "Typical" may be a bit of a stretch, since there are some excellent krautrock-style jams here, as well as a lot of eccentric ballads, and on top of that Cameron Winter's bizarre vocal performances. It's an extremely varied record for what it is, but every single track is killer, pun intended. [First added to this chart: 09/27/2025]
It's been a while since a pretty typical indie record has completely stunned me like this one. "Typical" may be a bit of a stretch, since there are some excellent krautrock-style jams here, as well as a lot of eccentric ballads, and on top of that Cameron Winter's bizarre vocal performances. It's an extremely varied record for what it is, but every single track is killer, pun intended. [First added to this chart: 09/27/2025]
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Best of November
Recorded live across multiple venues in Croatia, the Sinkauz brothers (bassist Alen and guitarist Nenad), drummer Marco Quarantotto, and the legendary saxophonist Rob Mazurek create a bleak, industrial and sometimes cosmic improvised jazz dystopia. At times, the music dissolves into squeaky electronic soundscapes, but then on the very next track the band charges into full-on rock passages. Through it all, the performances remain thought-provoking and instantly enjoyable (if you're into avant-jazz, at least). [First added to this chart: 12/08/2025]
Recorded live across multiple venues in Croatia, the Sinkauz brothers (bassist Alen and guitarist Nenad), drummer Marco Quarantotto, and the legendary saxophonist Rob Mazurek create a bleak, industrial and sometimes cosmic improvised jazz dystopia. At times, the music dissolves into squeaky electronic soundscapes, but then on the very next track the band charges into full-on rock passages. Through it all, the performances remain thought-provoking and instantly enjoyable (if you're into avant-jazz, at least). [First added to this chart: 12/08/2025]
Some of the nastiest and coolest performances in noisy music of recent times. I'm blown away. It's in every way an extension of Sprain's latest work. Way more chaotic, seems almost completely directionless at times, but, almost paradoxically, it's a more complete work than Lamb as an Effigy. Not necessarily straight up better, but more well rounded. It's incredible that this is comprised of hundreds of hours of live recordings, session tapes and phone demos, and then glued together to form a single huge track. Incredible mixing and sound design. A custom gamelan, weird percussion work, saxophones, bells, banjos, glitchy electronics, music concrète, microtonal Mellotron drones, more developed electroacoustic parts than ever before, and a fantastic stream-of-consciousness lyrical barrage. This throws eveything and the kitchen sink at you, and it all seems to work.
[First added to this chart: 06/16/2025]
Atmospheric jungle with some of the coolest folk samples you've heard. Coco Bryce can do no wrong, but this is easily his top 3 release. If you're a jungle lover, this is a must.
[First added to this chart: 11/28/2025]
Best of February
Park Jiha's newest masterpiece is much more ambient and new age than anything she's done before (on studio albums at least). It might also be her best work to date. [First added to this chart: 02/17/2025]
Park Jiha's newest masterpiece is much more ambient and new age than anything she's done before (on studio albums at least). It might also be her best work to date. [First added to this chart: 02/17/2025]
[First added to this chart: 09/21/2025]
Best of October
Look I've been listening to Rory Ferrerira / Milo / R.A.P. Ferreira for quite some time. Haven't kept up with every release, but his style of rapping is like a comfort food to me - even when his music isn't groundbreaking or special, it's at the very least a fun, rewarding listen. Whenever I come across one of his records, I just hit play. Over the years, I’d pretty much accepted that he would never top So the Flies Don’t Come, especially considering his output in recent years. The Night Green Side of It took me almost by surprise. It's got some of his best tracks, incredible Kenny Segal production (that pairing is something special) and some of his most mature, fully developed, and stylistically cool rapping and lyricism. [First added to this chart: 11/21/2025]
Look I've been listening to Rory Ferrerira / Milo / R.A.P. Ferreira for quite some time. Haven't kept up with every release, but his style of rapping is like a comfort food to me - even when his music isn't groundbreaking or special, it's at the very least a fun, rewarding listen. Whenever I come across one of his records, I just hit play. Over the years, I’d pretty much accepted that he would never top So the Flies Don’t Come, especially considering his output in recent years. The Night Green Side of It took me almost by surprise. It's got some of his best tracks, incredible Kenny Segal production (that pairing is something special) and some of his most mature, fully developed, and stylistically cool rapping and lyricism. [First added to this chart: 11/21/2025]
Best of April
[First added to this chart: 08/07/2025]
Best of June
[First added to this chart: 09/26/2025]
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Top 100 Music Albums of 2025 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Deafheaven | 1 | 1% | |
| Maurice Louca | 1 | 1% | |
| Yasmine Hamdan | 1 | 1% | |
| Coco Bryce | 1 | 1% | |
| Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist | 1 | 1% | |
| Saba & No I.D. | 1 | 1% | |
| aya (2020s) | 1 | 1% | |
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35 | 35% | |
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17 | 17% | |
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7 | 7% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of 2025 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 6 from 59th to 53rdGift Songs by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 53rd to 54thHyperyouth by Joey Valence & Brae |
| Down 1 from 54th to 55thThe Cart Before The Horse by Elizabeth A. Carver |
| Down 1 from 55th to 56thPain To Power by Maruja |
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