Top Songs — 2025
▶ Spotify PlaylistMusic connects with us on different wavelengths of time. Sometimes those wavelengths stretch across eras, washing over entire generations. The British Invasion. The late 70s punk explosion. The alt-rock surge of the 90s.
Other times the wavelength contracts, like when the atmosphere of a single album perfectly captures an hour of your life, or a single song strikes with a three to four minute bolt of energy.
And then there are the moments. The micro-bursts so small they barely take up time at all. They don't live across minutes, but inside seconds. The cymbal crash at the 0:24 mark of "Plainsong." The vocal pivot into the outro at the 2:35 mark of "Karma Police." The frenetic collapse at the end of "Porch."
This year, another such moment arrives at the 1:33 mark of "Taxes" by Geese. In a flat and lackluster year of music, this exhilarating hook cut through the gray and drenched us in brightest musical burst of 2025.
1.⭐ Geese — Taxes
2.⭐ Lola Young — Not Like That Anymore
3.⭐ Heaven — I Need You More Somehow
4.⭐ Wet Leg — mangetout
5.Lorde — Favourite Daughter
6.Wolf Alice — White Horses
7.Clutter — Kraut
8.Reneé Rapp — Leave Me Alone
9.Destroyer — Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World
10.Lorde — What Was That
11.Momma — I Want You (Fever)
12.Geese — Cobra
13.In Praise Of Molly — Mr. Perfect
14.HAIM — Lucky stars
15.Camberwell Showtime — Fender Benders
16.The Beaches — Touch Myself
17.Sharp Pins — I Can't Stop
18.Lana Del Rey — Henry, come on
19.Man/Woman/Chainsaw — Adam & Steve
20.Snocaps;Waxahatchee;Allison Crutchfield — Heathcliff
21.illuminati hotties — 777
22.Dream, Ivory — Lost Angeles
23.Shanghai Baby — Ready To Stop
24.Junior Varsity — New York
25.friends of our youth — Velvet Hand
26.Cyborg9K — Mirror Force
27.Act Tragic — Were You In The Right Place?
28.The Beths — Straight Line Was A Lie
29.Nourished by Time — Max Potential
30.Chloe Qisha — Modern Romance
31.Lola Young — SPIDERS
32.Green!Eyes;Pei-Yu Hung — Shallow
33.Lorde — Broken Glass
34.Wet Leg — catch these fists
35.Ben Kweller — Optimystic
36.Lady Gaga — Vanish Into You
37.Horsegirl — Switch Over
38.Nation of Language — Inept Apollo
39.Car Seat Headrest — Reality
40.CMAT — The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station
41.Greg MacPherson — Numbers
42.Blondshell — Event of a Fire
43.The Lemonheads — In the Margin
44.Charli xcx — Chains of Love
45.Superchunk — No Hope
46.Water From Your Eyes — Playing Classics
47.The Paranoid Style — It's a Dog's Breakfast
48.Car Seat Headrest — The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man)
49.Snocaps;Waxahatchee;Allison Crutchfield — Cherry Hard Candy
50.In Praise Of Molly — Bring Back The Days
51.Jessica Winter — All I Ever Really Wanted
52.Junior Varsity — Cross The Street
53.The Classicals — Through the Glass
54.Nourished by Time — 9 2 5
55.Sharp Pins — Popafangout
56.Green Day — Ballyhoo
57.shame — Spartak
58.Sharp Pins — Every Time I Hear
59.Horsegirl — Frontrunner
60.Turnstile — NEVER ENOUGH
61.Sabrina Carpenter — Go Go Juice
62.Big Thief — Los Angeles
63.Lily Allen — Madeline
64.Oklou;Bladee — take me by the hand
65.Lola Young — d£aler
66.Taylor Swift — The Fate of Ophelia
67.hemlocke springs — head, shoulders, knees and ankles
68.Sunflower Bean — Champagne Taste
69.The Lemonheads — Togetherness Is All I'm After
70.Blake — Sleep Talk
71.Bruce Springsteen — Lonely Night In The Park
72.Golden Apples — Mind
73.Ethel Cain — Fuck Me Eyes
74.Matt Berninger — Bonnet Of Pins
75.Been Stellar — Breakaway
76.Yatesy — A Bar Called Jeopardy
77.Heavy Meddo — La Mer
78.Cameron Winter — Love Takes Miles
79.Heavenly — Portland Town
80.hemlocke springs — the beginning of the end
81.Indigo De Souza — Heartthrob
82.Ratboys — Anywhere
83.Sharon Van Etten — Afterlife
84.Sharon Van Etten — Idiot Box
85.Jenny on Holiday — Every Ounce of Me
86.Geese — Au Pays du Cocaine
87.Christoph J.M. — No More
88.Chappell Roan — The Subway
89.Black Country, New Road — Besties
90.Taylor Swift;Sabrina Carpenter — The Life of a Showgirl
91.Viagra Boys — Man Made of Meat
92.HAIM — Take me back
93.Royel Otis — say something
94.Benjamin Booker — SAME KIND OF LONELY
95.The Mountain Goats — Armies of the Lord
96.Big Thief — All Night All Day
97.Wednesday — Elderberry Wine
98.Fust — Mountain Language
99.CMAT — Take A Sexy Picture Of Me
100.Militarie Gun — B A D I D E A