Apple Music has just launched a diverse lineup of new ‘Best of 2025’ playlists, and also named Tyler, The Creator as its Artist of the Year. Here are the details.
New ‘Best of 2025’ playlists available on Apple Music
2025 is fast coming to a close, and Apple Music’s editorial team has assembled a great lineup of ‘Best of 2025’ playlists to revisit the year’s new music.
Here’s a selection of the new playlists with direct links:
Apple’s full array of playlists can be found inside the ‘New’ tab in the Music app.
You can enjoy all of these playlists with an active Apple Music subscription or with Apple One.
Tyler, The Creator is Apple Music Artist of the Year 2025
Apple Music has also named Tyler, The Creator its Artist of the Year 2025.
Tyler’s output through the end of 2025 reinforced his position as one of the most gifted creatives of his era. Across Apple Music, Tyler had his best year ever in terms of worldwide plays, listeners, and hours listened, with fans around the world logging more than 4.5 billion minutes of listening time between November 2024 and October 2025.
Tyler began the year with his most ambitious and successful tour in support of his most personal album to date — the just-released CHROMAKOPIA. That extraordinary feat in world-building and character exploration became his most successful album ever on Apple Music by first-day and first-week plays. But he wasn’t done creating. He wrote, recorded, and released another album mid-tour: DON’T TAP THE GLASS, a brief yet satisfying blast of urgent, stripped-down rap that’s wildly different from its predecessor, and shot to No. 1 on Apple Music’s overall charts in more than 55 countries the day it was released.
Artist of the Year is a tradition that Apple Music started a few years back and comes with a fun prize. Winners get a physical award featuring “Apple’s custom silicon wafer suspended between a polished sheet of glass, and a machined and anodized aluminum body.”
The 2024 winner was Billie Eilish, who became Apple Music’s first ever two-time winner. And in 2023, Taylor Swift took home the prize.
Apple Music is available for $10.99/month for individuals, or you can get it as part of the Apple One bundle.
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