It’s that time of year again, when our very opinionated editorial staff is busy taking stock of the past year in music and tallying up our respective picks for the Best Albums of 2025.

And while we’re excited to reveal our year-end picks within the next few weeks, we want YOU, our readers, to help us determine the final rankings.

Our writers have identified a shortlist of 25 albums that are worthy candidates for album-of-the-year honors, and this list appears below, followed by the respective album streams in case you’d like to listen to each album.

All that we ask of you is to select up to FIVE albums that you believe are worthy of competing for the highest rankings. (Note that all submissions that select more than five albums will be disqualified and will not count toward the consensus voting. So please select a maximum of five albums if you’d like your vote to count!)

Simply make your selections below and click “submit.” Your submission is anonymous and no personal information is required to vote. The submission deadline is this Friday, December 5th at 11:59pm ET, and we will publish the results soon thereafter, so check back via our Bluesky, Facebook and X pages to discover the consensus #1 selected by your fellow readers and your friendly Albumism team!

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