Pictured above is award-winning Chilean singer and songwriter Mon Laferte who offers a sophisticated brand of Latin music that melds indie and roots rock, blues, bolero, cumbia, ranchera, and electronics with Chilean folk traditions. If that genre-bending description isn’t the perfect ambassador for our overall list of albums covering rock, blues, jazz, rap, country, classical, and more, we don’t know what is.
Each year, the AllMusic editors look back through the albums that made the biggest impact, broke new ground, and just all-out moved us. Pop, rap, jazz, blues, classical and more. We begin with our overall best-of list, and will explore a different genre each weekday until the new year.
Here are our 100 favorite albums of 2025.
Let us know your favorites in the comments.
