Our Top 10 Music Moments of 2025

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

3.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Jon and Joe count down their respective personal favorites of the year, including some unexpected rapping, an inescapable TikTok meme, a major tour and a sublime bridge in a breakup song. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast.
0:06.5	You're a chill with the glazing bro of weekly cultural review.
0:11.1	I'm John Caramonica, and I'm the critic.
0:12.9	I'm Joe Koskearelli, and I'm the reporter.
0:14.9	Put your headphones.
0:16.4	I guess I got to accept the pain.
0:19.0	Need a cigarette to Make me feel better.
0:21.5	Every good thing comes my way.
0:24.6	Joe, Popcast, 2025 is coming to an end.
0:29.1	Wow.
0:29.4	26 is lurking around the corner.
0:33.6	Yes.
0:34.1	We have had, I think the French term is, a hell of a year. Yeah. A wild year. Yeah. An unprecedented year. Yes. Could not have predicted how this year went. You saw it. You had it on the mood board all along. 2025 vision. We had memos. What could I say? Yeah, we write a lot of memos this year.
0:55.2	We had memos.
0:56.1	What have we done this year?
1:13.1	We have had many people on the couch. Yes. We've had Bunny Vera on the couch. We've had Erica Badu on the couch. And also playing in the newsroom. Yes. Earl Sweatcher. I'm looking at our walls. Yeah, Big X the plug, Bad Bunny, Jeff Goldblum, Ethel Cain, Rosalia, Earl Sweatshirt. Young Lean.
1:13.7	Young Lean. Young Lean. Romeo Santos and Prince Royce, our last interview of the year. Jeff Goldblum. Go watch those interviews. Incredible. On YouTube. Tap in YouTube.com slash popcast. Like and subscribe, also Instagram and TikTok.
1:28.6	Pat, are we going to start a Reddit in 2026?
1:31.6	We're going to have a subreddit?
1:33.3	All right, just throwing it out there.
1:35.2	We're getting off Discord.
1:36.8	Yeah.
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