This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were pop chart-toppers, instant classics that ruled the radio and the clubs. Others come out of the underground —angry noise, art-damaged experiments, street beats. Our list of the year’s best songs has soul divas, country rebels, shot callers, rap bangers, rock monsters, K-pop demon hunters. Legends like Kendrick and SZA and Taylor and Gaga dropped mega-hits that cast their spell for months at a time without losing their mystery. Sabrina blamed your mom. Rosalía prayed for divine intervention, with a little help from Björk.

We’ve got sad ballads about bad romance, whether it’s Chappell riding the s

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