It’s almost time to find out what artists, songs and albums dominated the 2025 Billboard year-end charts — and this year, we’re doing it live.
Comedian and social superstar Druski will host the Billboard 2025 No. 1s Livestream on Tuesday, Dec. 9, starting at noon ET/9 a.m. PT, where he’ll welcome special guests to help reveal the biggest chart-toppers of 2025. It’s all going down on the Billboard News YouTube channel and BillboardTV on Samsung TV Plus.
Once the livestream — co-hosted by Billboard News’ Tetris Kelly — wraps on Dec. 9, hundreds of 2025 year-end charts will be posted to Billboard’s website.
Druski has always had a strong connection to the music world, from his cameos in videos for Drake, Jack Harlow and Lil Yachty to his trio of skits on Justin Bieber’s SWAG album earlier this year. He also has his Coulda Been Records, which started out as a spoof but turned into an actual record label that has released songs featuring Young M.A, Yung Bleu and Yachty. Druski is currently on The Coulda Fest Tour, with special appearances from BigXthaPlug, which kicked off in London in September and wraps this weekend at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California.
Starting Monday (Dec. 1), we’re offering up a sneak peek of the full chart menu by rolling out the top 10s of select tallies. First up: the top 10s of the 2025 Top Rock & Alternative Albums and Top Rock & Alternative Songs charts.
Billboard’s year-end music charts represent aggregated metrics for each artist, title, label and music contributor on the weekly charts from Oct. 26, 2024, through Oct. 18, 2025. Rankings for Luminate-based recaps reflect equivalent album units, airplay, sales or streaming during the weeks that the entries appeared on a respective chart during the tracking year. Any activity registered before or after a title’s chart run isn’t considered in these rankings. That methodology detail, and the October-October time period, account for some of the difference between these lists and the calendar-year recaps that are independently compiled by Luminate.
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