Best of 2025
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Best Music of 2025: Staff Picks
What were Rolling Stone staffers listening to this year? A little bit of everything, from artists big and small
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Rolling Stone’s Best Photos of 2025
Rolling Stone’s photographers take you behind-the-scenes and to the front row to see the biggest artists of 2025 up close. Here are our favorite pictures of the year
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The Top 22 Rolling Stone Stories of 2025
Our biggest cover stories, boldest investigations, and most gripping journalism of the year — here are the most-read stories we’ve published over the last 12 months
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Rob Sheffield’s Top 20 Albums of 2025
Releases from across the map that defined a glorious year in music
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Rob Sheffield’s Top 25 Songs of 2025
Hits, flops, obscurities and more songs that stayed on repeat in one critic’s headphones
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The 10 Best Reissues of 2025
Must-hear boxes and archival sets from Dylan, Springsteen, Sly Stone, and more
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The 10 Best TV Performances of 2025
From a tortured garbageman to a hell-raising journalist, a flailing influencer to stoic doctor, here are the roles — and actors — that grabbed our attention this year
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The 2025 Pop-Girl Guide to Dating
Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Amber Mark, and Jae Stephens chronicled the chaos of dating on pristine pop albums — here’s what they taught us
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The 55 Best Indie-Rock Albums of 2025
Guitar heroes, noise rockers, brilliant singer-songwriters, and more
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2025 Was the Year AI Crossed the Point of No Return
From Elon Musk’s Grok declaring itself ‘MechaHitler’ to ChatGPT users spiraling into dangerous delusions, this technology overwhelmed us at last
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