My Favorite Songs of 2025

Full disclosure. I'm not sure if I'm going to have a best and worst of the year post for 2025. I have a selection for both the best and worst song of the year, so I can share that the best is in the post. By the way, I highly recommend the posts by Josh on his favorites of the year (this is his favorite songs post).

Here are my 11 favorite songs of the year in no particular order.

Alex Warren - Ordinary

What a voice. And this song just explodes in the chorus. 

Taylor Swift - Fate of Ophelia

All she does is write hit song after hit song.

Role Model - Sally, When The Wine Runs Out

Will Role Model be a one-hit wonder? If he is, this is a really good hit. Enough that I wrote about him twice now this year.

Sydney Sprague - Flat Circle

I learn of most music these days from listening to the Hits1 station on SiriusXM. I learned of this song from The Tony Kornheiser Show podcast which regularly features music shared by listeners or their family/friends. This is one such song. I love the guitar riff.

Raye - Where Is My Husband

And this song is one that I love for the drums.

Ragga Holm - Liour Vel 

A song I heard several times on Icelandic radio. Still have no idea what it's about or any of the lyrics.

K-Pop Demon Hunters (Huntrix) - Golden

Only the biggest song in the world. We're all going up, up, up.

AJR - The Big Goodbye

I want to see AJR in concert with my kids. Think it would be a great show. And while this probably isn't even in my top 5 AJR songs, I just like it.

Tame Impala - Dracula

The video has a bad word in it so NSFW. I've seen or heard Tame Impala's name for several years but this seems to be the first song that's getting "pop" airplay. It's really good.

Ravyn Lenae - Love Me Not 

Another song that I just like.

5 Seconds of Summer - Not OK

Spoiler. This is my favorite song of the year. If I write a best of 2025 post, I'll explain more then.

Friday Video: Way Less Sad

Congratulations to AJR for being featured in two separate Friday videos! (The first was for their song Sober Up.) Today's video is Way Less Sad, which is another catchy song by the band. I dig the song and the band!

Friday Video: Sober Up

Today's video is "Sober Up," the very cool song by AJR.



According to something called Clevver, "a dominant media brand for pop-culture Entertainment," the name AJR is based on the first letters of the first name of the three band members, Adam, Jack, and Ryan Met. Although these brothers are from New York, I think they are secretly Steelers fans, and the band name is actually a tribute the founding owner of the organization, Arthur Joseph Rooney Sr.