The Current

Great Music Lives Here ®
Listener-Supported Music
Donate Now
Top 89

Top 89 of 2025: Bill DeVille's top music of the year

by Bill DeVille

December 04, 2025

TOP 89 2025 - Staff Picks - Bill DeVille
TOP 89 2025 - Staff Picks - Bill DeVillePhoto: Bump Opera | Graphic: Natalia Toledo

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