NME’s Best 50 Albums & Songs of 2025

End-of-Year List Season continues with long-running British publication NME and their 50 Best Albums of 2025 list. Their picks have some of the records you’re seeing on a lot of lists (including their #1), and some that make you remember this is a UK site. The lower half of the list includes The Last Dinner Party, Viagra Boys, Rose Gray, Wednesday, VLURE, Haim, Maruja, Dijon, Annahstasia, Big Thief and more, and their Top 25 of 2025 are listed below.

Same goes for NME’s Best Songs of 2025, which include Britpop legends, dance innovators, rap stars, pop impresarios, and more than a few indie rock upstarts. Check out their Top 10 below.

Head to NME for more of their Best of 2025 coverage.

NME – BEST ALBUMS OF 2025
25. Clipse – ‘Let God Sort Em Out’
24. Lorde – ‘Virgin’
23. YHWH Nailgun – ‘45 Pounds’
22. Wet Leg – ‘Moisturizer’
21. Deftones – ‘Private Music’
20. Sam Fender – ‘People Watching’
19. Lady Gaga – ‘Mayhem’
18. Olivia Dean – ‘The Art of Loving’
17. JADE – ‘That’s Showbiz, Baby!’
16. Pulp – ‘More’
15. Blood Orange – ‘Essex Honey’
14. Jim Legxacy – ‘Black British Music (2025)’
13. Lily Allen – ‘West End Girl’
12. Amaarae – ‘Black Star’
11. Wolf Alice – ‘The Clearing’
10. PinkPantheress – ‘Fancy That’
9. Hayley Williams – ‘Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party’
8. Turnstile – ‘Never Enough’
7. Rosalía – ‘Lux’
6. Oklou – ‘Choke Enough’
5. Bad Bunny – ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’
4. CMAT – ‘Euro-Country’
3. FKA Twigs – ‘Eusexua’
2. Addison Rae – ‘Addison’
1. Geese – ‘Getting Killed’

NME – TOP 10 SONGS OF 2025
10. Bad Bunny – ‘Baile Inolvidable’
9. Pulp – ‘Spike Island’
8. Addison Rae – ‘Headphones On’
7. Rosalía – ‘Reliquia’
6. Hayley Williams – ‘True Believer’
5. Katseye – ‘Gnarly’
4. Amaarae – ‘S.M.O.’
3. CMAT – ‘Take A Sexy Picture Of Me’
2. Geese – ‘Taxes’
1. PinkPantheress – ‘Illegal’

See more 2025 Year End Lists here.