The Best New Music of 2025

Caleigh Satterfield, Reporter

February 25, 2025

Just two months into 2025, so much new music has been released. Influences of a “Brat” summer lingers throughout pop music, and the names of many early 2000’s pop stars can be seen making a resurgence. Lady Gaga, for example, is once again climbing the charts with her lead single “Abracadabra”–released Feb. 3– leaving many fans anticipating the release of her upcoming album “MAYHEM” which releases March 7.

The Weeknd’s new album, “Hurry Up Tomorrow” took the music industry by storm with its January release. The album consists of 22 songs featuring many well known artists such as Travis Scott, Florence+The Machine, Playboy Carti, Lana Del Rey and many more. Within a week of its release, its popularity earned it the top spot on Billboard’s top 200.

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On Jan. 24, Tate McRae released the third single from her upcoming album, “So Close To What.” The album itself was released just last week, on Feb. 21, with features from Flo Milli and The Kid LAROI.

Lucy Dacus, an independent artist as well as a member of alternative supergroup Boygenius, has also recently released a lead single for upcoming album, “Forever Is A Feeling” which is set to release March 2028. The single, “Best Guess,” receives both praise and criticism within the musical community due to the controversial nature of the music video casting. This will be Dacus’s fourth solo studio album.

Another emerging solo artist, LISA, released “Born Again” on Feb. 7 as a teaser for her upcoming album “Alter Ego”. The song features not only Doja Cat, but RAYE as well. “Alter Ego” releases Feb. 28, and is confirmed to include a feature from ROSALÍA. Often known for her success within the Korean pop girl group BLACKPINK, LISA has grown in success since her solo debut in 2021. She currently holds nine Guinness World Records, including one for being the first solo K-pop artist to reach 1 Billion streams on Spotify alone.

These releases set into motion a great year for music in 2025. New music seems to be in the books for many other major artists such as Lana Del Rey, Drake, A$AP Rocky and Bon Iver. Smaller artists such as Alessia Cara, Addison Rae, David Kushner, Mon Rovîa, Rainbow Kitten Surprise and many others have released or plan to release new music this year.

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Caleigh Satterfield

As a senior at John Adams High School, Caleigh Satterfield is excited to begin her first year writing for its esteemed newspaper, The Tower. She is ready to write articles about the things that interest her, such as animals, reading, sleeping, and finding excuses to procrastinate doing her homework. Caleigh is most looking forward to expanding her writing skills and to take on some interesting writing topics. In the future, she hopes to have a successful career in the medical technology field, specifically radiology. Outside of her professional goals, she hopes to live in a house straight out of her pinterest boards, and to have at least four dogs. Caleigh has run for the school’s cross country team each year and plans to run track this year. In her spare time, you can find her complaining about her hatred for running. She has also participated in Adams softball as a middle infielder, and gymnastics outside of school. Reading, random crafting, baking, and cleaning up messes made while baking are just some of the many, many talents Caleigh has. She enjoys spending time with friends and family, watching scary movies, listening to music, and annoying her sister. Caleigh’s sister, Mackenzie, would describe her as, “energetic and really strongly willed,” as well as “athletic and sort of funny.” Her favorite music artists include Loathe, Billie Eilish, Massive Attack, and Hana Vu. If you ask her, Caleigh will tell you that she has the best music taste out of anyone you’ll never meet, which is most certainly true. Caleigh is very excited to finish out her senior year writing for The Tower, alongside some of her friends. She hopes that her creativity and unique individual voice will shine through her words as she tackles writing subjects that will snag the interests of many.