Top 30 Songs of 2025

We interrupt the all-time countdown for the best songs of this year, none of which were eligible for the all time list (which was compiled in late 2024). 

1. "Los Angeles" Big Thief
2. "Hi Chaos" Mogwai
3. "Spring" Velvet
4. "Milk & Diesel" Home is Where
5. "I've Been Trying" AW
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6. "Bee" UNIVERSITY
7. "Momentary" Velvet
8. "True /False Lover" Car Seat Headrest
9. "Incomprehensible" Big Thief
10. "Thief of Joy" AW

11. "If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others" Mogwai
12. "149" HighSchool
13. "Words" Big Thief
14. "Flowers" High.
15. "Song Ericsson" HighSchool
16. "Spun" Wavves
17. "The Catastrophe (Good Luck with that, Man)" Car Seat Headrest
18. "Colt" HighSchool
19. "No Hope" Superchunk
​20. "Bike Week" Home is Where

21. "Gorilla Panic" UNIVERSITY
22. "Making Out at the SkatePark" HighSchool
23. "Birds" SunEra
24. "All Night All Day" Big Thief
25. "Way Too Much" CASTLEBEAT
26. "Business Secrets of the Pharaohs" UNIVERSITY
27. "Dipped" HighSchool
28. "Inside Out" Beach Fossils
29. "Everybody Dies" Superchunk
​30. "Bomber" High.