Bey-lieve it or not: The 2025 album of the year category might be the most high-stakes Grammys race in years.. But let’s back up. The category has a little something for everyone this year ...

The Billboard 200 albums chart measures the top releases during the weekly tracking period every Friday through Thursday. While it used to be determined strictly by record sales, the ever-changing landscape of music consumption led Billboard to update its methodology for the 21st century.

Lauryn Hill won album of the year in 1999 for her debut solo album, "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill." She became the first-ever hip-hop artist to win the prestigious award.

The prolific Charley Crockett will release his second album of 2025 when he issues Dollar a Day on Aug. 8 via Island Records.

Forget the sound of the summer; Virgin, like most of Lorde’s music, is the sound of growing up. Here are our impressions after our first listen of the album all the way through. Samuel Maude, content strategy manager: I know we’ve heard it before,

Bad Bunny started the year off right with DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, one of his best albums to date. Since then, there has been a wealth of exciting new music, from anxiously awaited comebacks like Bon Iver to solo debuts like TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe.

Blockbuster albums have dominated the charts in 2025. Look at the Billboard Hot 100 at various points this year and you’d have seen multiple songs in the top 50 from Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet,

Look! There he is! Cuthbert the horn-blowing turnip, back again with another gigantic playlist for our subscribers who make all this happen. As we wrote in the introduction to the chart rounding up the best 100 albums we’ve heard so far in 2025 (which of course you can read here),