(KTLA) — Pop culturally, the year tends to wrap up by early December, at least with music. Few artists want to drop anything they care about amid the holiday rush and the domination of holiday music.

With this in mind, here are KTLA's 50 best songs of 2025, an unranked list for which I began working on in October and have made adjustments as needed. While the "best"-ness of these tracks is, obviously, an opinion, I've taken my own biases and personal likes/dislikes into consideration as much as possible. Here you'll find a collection of what I consider the best, most forward-thinking tracks of 2025.

10 best albums of 2025

This list's focus is on music I believe is pushing the needle in music toward something new and innovative, not necessarily what is most popular (though plenty of thes

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