Top 10 Albums of 2025

Finally the episode you've all been waiting for, Album Mode's top 10 albums of 2025! Adriel and Démar list their best albums of the year. After years of reviewing music together the duo divergence has become more obvious and this year's year-end list is evidence.

P.S. Demar's Spotify listening age is 25, Adriel's is 45.

TIMECODES:

3:30 - A lot of albums that we did not review
4:10 - Don’t Tap The Glass
7:30 - West End Girl
9:48 - Miley Cyrus supremacy
15:55 - Yacht Rap
16:49 - An Ambient Demo but good
21:16 - What genre is this?
24:04 - Demar wants the Naomi Campbell album
29:06 - Chainz revival
38:00 - One of the best albums of the decade
43:10 - Comeback Album of the Year
48:12 - Feels like a racing game
52:25 - The Best of Wale
56:00 - One of the Greatest Rappers of all Time
01:01:39 - The Longest No Skips Album
01:06:05 - Two or Three listens a day for Demar’s Number One
1:11:01 - Honourable Mentions

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Démar’s Top 10:

1. EsDeeKid - Rebel
2. The Weeknd - Hurry Up Tomorrow
3. Little Simz - Lotus
4. PinkPantheress - Fancy That
5. Bad Bunny - Debi Tirar Mas Fotos
6. Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out
7. Amaarae - Black Star
8. OkLou - Choke Enough
9. Miley Cyrus - Something Beautiful
10. Tyler, The Creator - Don't Tap the Glass

Adriel's Top 10:

1. The Weeknd - Hurry Up TOmorrow
2. Little Simz - Lotus
3. Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out
4. Wale - Etherything is a lot
5. Chance the Rapper - Star Line
6. Destin Conrad - LOVE ON DIGITAL
7. Larry June + Alchemist + 2 Chainz - Life is Beautiful
8. Venna - MALIK
9. Freddie Gibbs - ALFREDO 2
10. Lily Allen - West End Girl