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2025's best songs (so far)

The FKA twigs cut "Room Of Fools" is on our shortlist of the year's best songs (so far).
Jordan Hemingway
The FKA twigs cut "Room Of Fools" is on our shortlist of the year's best songs (so far).

It all goes by so fast! On this week's show, with the midpoint of 2025 upon us, we hit pause to take stock of the year's best songs so far. We've got pop bangers from PinkPantheress and HAIM, a slow-burner from Lana Del Rey, dystopian rap from clipping. and more.

NPR Music editors Hazel Cills and Sheldon Pearce join host Robin Hilton to share a wildly incomplete list of the songs they've still got in heavy rotation. We also look back at our No. 1 songs from 2018 as we continue our All Songs Considered 25th anniversary segment and take you to a summer afternoon at the pool in our weekly reset.


Best songs of 2025 so far

  • PinkPantheress: "Stateside," from Fancy That
  • HAIM: "Relationships," from I quit
  • clipping.: "Keep Pushing," from Dead Channel Sky
  • Lana Del Rey: "Henry, come on" (single)
  • Oklou: "Blade Bird," from choke enough
  • Miya Folick: "This Time Around," from Erotica Veronica
  • Perfume Genius: "It's A Mirror," from Glory
  • FKA twigs: "Room Of Fools," from EUSEXUA
  • Lucius: "Gold Rush," from Lucius

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Hazel Cills
Hazel Cills is an editor at NPR Music. Before coming to NPR in 2021, Cills was a culture reporter at Jezebel, where she wrote about music and popular culture. She was also a writer for MTV News and a founding staff writer for the teen publication Rookie magazine.
Sheldon Pearce
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Robin Hilton
Robin Hilton is the Senior Podcast Producer for NPR Music. He also hosts the New Music Friday episodes of All Songs Considered.