Music
The 40 best songs of 2025
Its’s been a year packed full of belters, breakouts and hook-laden earworms
And just like that, 2025 is done and dusted. We don’t remember the last year that we didn’t say this about, but 2025 has been a funny old twelve months. Katy Perry went to space, everyone went crazy for labubus, the Louvre got ransacked and absolutely nothing beat a Jet2 holiday.
But alongside plenty of memeable moments, it was a pretty decent twelve months for culture: we had epic new film releases, a tonne of killer albums, some mouth-wateringly delicious food and plenty of exciting new openings.
So, as per tradition, we’ve asked Time Out staffers to share everything they loved this year, from the songs they had on repeat and the books they read voraciously to the exhibitions they raved about and the food they would happily eat every day until 2026.
Ready to feast upon the finest cultural pickings from 2025? We present to you Time Out’s best of the best.
