Top 89 of 2025: Bill DeVille's top music of the year
by Bill DeVille
December 04, 2025

The end of the year is upon us, and it's time to reflect on your favorite music of 2025! Here is Bill DeVille's favorite music of the year. Once you've made your own list, vote in The Current's Top 89 poll by Sunday, Dec. 14, and we'll count down your Top 89 of 2025 at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 31.
My Top 10 Songs of 2025 (in no particular order)
Jon Batiste - Big Money
Wolf Alice - White Horses
Geese - Cobra
S.G. Goodman - I Can See the Devil
Supermodel* - I Use to Live in England
Wet Leg - Catch These Fists
Mac DeMaco - Holy
Josh Ritter - Honeydew (No Light)
David Byrne feat. Hayley Williams - What Is the Reason For It?
Hermanos Gutierrez feat. Leon Bridges - Elegantly Wasted
Americana Tunes I Loved that You Heard on United States of Americana in 2025
Jason Isbell - Ride to Robert’s
Tyler Childers - Nose on the Grindstone
Charley Crockett - Ain’t That Right
Amanda Shires - A Way It Goes
Jesse Welles - Wheel
Joan Shelley - Here in the High and Low
Ken Pomeroy - Days Getting Darker
Marfa - Daisy
Ketch Secor - What Nashville Was
Margo Price feat. Jesse Welles - Don’t Wake Me Up
Hayes Carll - We’re Only Human
Lukas Nelson - Born Runnin’ Out of Time
Kelsey Waldon - Falling Down
Alan Sparhawk with Trampled By Turtles - Stranger
Sterling Drake - In My Dreams
