Ever since 2010 I’ve kept track of the music I listen to each month. It’s fascinating to see how some bands stay with me over the years whilst others have their moment on my stereo before vanishing from my mind… well, until years later when I check out to see what I was listening to way back when in any case!

Anyway, I ran a Top 50 (which turned in to a Top 100) bands of the month chart on various social media platforms recording my listening habits for posterity and to share my earworms of the month. I listen to a lot of music when working, and also when relaxing. My tastes are fairly broad and I love discovering new bands, as well as new sounds and genres.

April saw thirteen new bands make it into the Top 100 for the first time! The highest new entry were Empires In Orbit at #11. They were joined by The Orchestra Of Mirrored Reflections (#16), Orphan Zero (#31), Coral Blue (#39), Autoisolation (#41), If Anything, Suspicious (#44), Waldskin (#47), Spectre Horsemen Pale With Dust (#54), The Subtheory (#77), Shadowdream (#85), Brothel (#87), Lexi Jones (#89), and Leezy (#99).

In addition to the new releases we had 16 artists and bands returning to the Top 100 this month, with Somewhere off Jazz Street claiming the highest new entry slot at #21.

Here’s my Top 100 for April 2025…

Paris Paloma – The Warmth

Top 100 Bands – April 2025

Position	Last Month	Band
1	4	Paris Paloma
2	39	All India Radio
3	3	Fields of the Nephilim
4	8	Hidden Citizens
5	10	Dlina Volny
6	19	Sofia Isella
7	6	Enigma
8	69	Chvrches
9	72	Halsey
10	2	The Mission

All India Radio – Monsters

11	NE	Empires In Orbit
12	14	Hunter as a Horse
13	74	Midnight Smoke
14	27	Red Mecca
15	32	Reb Fountain
16	NE	The Orchestra Of Mirrored Reflections
17	17	The Jesus and Mary Chain
18	18	Gracie Abrams
19	58	Sakura
20	1	ALT BLK ERA

Empires In Orbit – Here’s To You

21	RE	Somewhere off Jazz Street
22	RE	Florence & The Machine
23	RE	Luna Shadows
24	24	Conjure One
25	RE	Lowering
26	49	October and The Eyes
27	22	Seasurfer
28	29	Vioflesh
29	30	8mm
30	62	Me Not You

Somewhere off Jazz Street – Maybe Tomorrow

31	NE	Orphan Zero
32	12	Depeche Mode
33	21	So Below
34	28	Scratch Massive
35	25	Gary Numan
36	31	I Speak Machine
37	5	Taylor Swift
38	33	Tender Misfits
39	NE	Coral Blue
40	RE	Indiana

Ophan Zero – Lesser Key

41	NE	Autoisolation
42	34	Moderns
43	35	Moontwin
44	NE	If Anything, Suspicious
45	64	Ari Mason
46	9	Carbon Based Lifeforms
47	NE	Waldskin
48	40	Georgi Kay
49	16	New Model Army
50	42	PIXEL GRIP

Waldskin – Puppy of A

51	45	Fleetwood Mac
52	46	Greenhaus
53	RE	Melanie Martinez
54	NE	Spectre Horsemen Pale With Dust
55	53	Stella Rose
56	47	The Bangles
57	79	Chloe Qisha
58	95	Holly Humberstone
59	50	Pink Floyd
60	52	Sleep Token
61	86	The Raveonettes
62	44	Bon Jovi
63	48	Front Line Assembly
64	RE	Manet
65	51	New Order
66	54	Clan of Xymox
67	55	Curve
68	57	My Bloody Valentine
69	RE	Nova Twins
70	59	The The
71	61	Ist Ist
72	7	Of Verona
73	RE	Cassyette
74	11	MXMS
75	RE	Oiseaux-Tempete

Nova Twins – Monsters

76	RE	Povarovo
77	NE	The Subtheory
78	RE	:Wumpscut:
79	RE	Pastel Ghost
80	68	The Twilight Garden
81	RE	Toni Castells
82	73	Kneecap
83	56	Minuit Machine
84	83	PVRIS
85	NE	Shadowdream
86	RE	We are Loveblind
87	NE	Brothel
88	77	Heart
89	NE	Lexi Jones
90	81	Of the Dark I Dare
91	84	Talk Talk
92	97	The Haunt
93	85	The Long Blondes
94	91	Annie
95	87	Chloe Howl
96	93	Echo & The Bunnymen
97	94	Emma Ruth Rundle
98	RE	Kailee Morgue
99	NE	Leezy
100	90	Steve Von Till

The Subtheory – The Sicilian Defence