#2025FavSingles #MusicChallenge organized by
@justonemusicfan.bsky.social
Not so known (I guess)
🎤Jasper Steverlinck
🎶The Healing
youtu.be/ggVHq54-27Q?...
Very well known
🎤Olivia Dean
🎶Man I need
youtu.be/oIv_Y2RPQ_A?...
I collected and expanded all of my posts over the last month into a single old-school blog post just in time for the last day of the year. #2025FavSingles #MusicSky #MusicChallenge #BestMusic2025 #BestSongs2025
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1. "Manchild," Sabrina Carpenter
Once again, my favorite song of the year is a genuine hit with genuine radio airplay by a genuine female pop superstar. And once again, I really can’t fully blame this on having a near-teen daughter in the house.
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#Twenty5Stinkers
because why indeed not
This is totally open to anyone - not just those who did my #2025FavSingles thingy.
And I’m not saying 1/2 is a hard deadline - I didn’t give a time even - it’s just that that’s the earliest I’ll compile, and I’ll aim to update the list with later submissions too.
1. REPLY to this post 2. Pick just ONE song from 2025 that you love, was a single that most of us won’t know, and you think we should. Name it, and include a YouTube link. 3. Do the same with one song from 2025 you love and think many will know - and include it too (same deal, single, video) My main thinking: discovering music we don’t know is fun, but listening to a bunch of stuff you don’t know makes it challenging to appreciate, hence mixing in stuff we’ll know. I’ll wait till at least 1/2, then compile them all into a YouTube playlist and share in this thread. If you want to include comments, feel free, but as a YT playlist is the intention, I doubt many will see them.
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Hey #MusicChallenge community! Who knows if this’ll work, but I wanna try it. Lots of us have been posting year-end lists. I am sure I’m not the only one who doesn’t always take the time to play everything I’ve never heard of. So… here’s my challenge to you all:
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My year-end singles countdown
In addition to recap 30-21, 20-11, 1 YouTube playlists, I have one for the whole thing…
Here’s the ascending version, with extended to 35:
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My top track of the year - absolutely no surprise here, third year in a row! ☺️🤘🏻
🏆 IST IST - I Am The Fear
Happy New Years Eve 🥳
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Day 31. The Last Dinner Party - Second Best
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McKinley Dixon - Magic, Alive!
... and the obligatory jazz-rap from McKinley - what better way to see out the year than with a blast of 🎷🎷
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2️⃣5️⃣/25
I mained experimental 🇿🇦Thakzin into #PeoplesPop25, but anthemic 🇿🇦Thakzin should have been in there too (side-eyeing the elves). “Sinatanale (Thakzin Remix)” by 🌍Lagos In Paris ft. 🇬🇭Tsie is such a cathartic celebration. happy new year all!
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1 The Cords - Fabulist
Sensational single, for fans of Darling Buds, Shop Assistants of the whole C86 scene really, made by 2 scottish teen sisters.
Great album as well which I put at #2 for the year. This single obvious #1.
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🎵 Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still
🏴 @jennbutterworth.bsky.social
A reinterpretation of a 19C folk song. I love the strings, and though it may be about lost love, the last minute and a half especially is so uplifting 🥹
youtu.be/Hez_xBuwMX4
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from last gig of 2025 to first (booked) gig of 2026...
30.
ROSALÍA*
'RELIQUIA'
(*with Venetian Snares at the end)
Feliç any nou!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPaS...
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1. Brand New Me - Saint Etienne & Confidence Man
#1 could only be from Saint Etienne’s final goodbye. Big thanks to @justonemusicfan.bsky.social for the challenge!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HzZ...
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My year-end countdown
I can’t quote the whole thing here. Every line of this song is a win. Hard to summarize in so few characters.
Take me back to that wild old rhythm…
Unquestionably the best song this year.
#1: Edovann / Glory Days
youtu.be/dz2wkNeQgUo?...
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My top 3 tracks of the year 🥳🎵🙌🏻
2️⃣ Nightbus - False Prophet
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ASC — love quest
This gallant young troubadour is on a love quest — with a laptop not a lute & and a head more full of dopamine than oxytocin. While bordering on unrelatable to my Gen X brain I find it sweet, funny, clever.
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Mei Semones - Dumb Feeling
Ending with two artists that have prompted me to consider if 2025 saw me entering my 'jazz phase' (bossa-indie-jazz in the case of Mei).
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Lido Pimienta - Aún Te Quiero [I Still Love You]
Just included this as one of my top 5 albums of the year so I better post one of the songs here too.
No idea on genre - sparse classical instrumentation and traditional melodies but v modern production.
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2 Rocket - Take Your Aim
First I heard of this band, immediate love.
The album is my #1 of the year, doesn't include this single as it was added to the (physical) re-release of last year's ep.
I have a ticket to see them feb 2026.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_vB...
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🎵 Turning Point
🇪🇺 Eurotoire
🗓️ June
Title track of a wonderful nu jazz collaboration. I love the concept and the music. Fans of The Cinematic Orchestra will find much to enjoy here.
1/2
youtu.be/1_yQQYHAODY
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29.
Sudan Archives, 'DEAD'
Opener of THE BPM; first song at my last gig of the year.
Single out earlier; album came out the same day as Lily's WEST END GIRL. Which is when I stopped resisting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYJJ...
