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The 25 biggest music moments from 2025

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At the top of the year, fires ravaged Los Angeles just as the second Trump administration was being sworn in, and some artists performing at the inauguration had to defend their stances. By the time the year had ended, we were awash in award nominations for the likes of "Sinners" and "KPop Demon Hunters", had lost several incredible legends like D'Angelo and Roberta Flack, and had a new first-week sales record for most albums moved via Taylor Swift's industry-swallowing "The Life of a Showgirl".
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The 25 best singles of 2025

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Out of the 52 weeks of 2025, there were only ten chart-topping singles on the Billboard Hot 100, which said less about the quality of the music at play and instead showed us more as to how streaming habits had fundamentally changed the more the decade has unfurled.
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The 25 best albums of 2025

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2025 was an unusual year for pop music in general. The charts reflected existing listening habits, meaning that songs over a year old still hung around in the Top 10 (we're looking at you, Teddy Swims!). New albums came quickly and then left, meaning it was a bit surprising that "KPop Demon Hunters" took the world by storm in the way that it did.
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