Whilst I started keeping track of the music I listened to each month back in 2010 I started doing a yearly overview of my Top 100 in 2013, tracking the number of tracks I listened to across each band courtesy of LastFM’s Scrobbler that pulls all my listening data from various devices and sources.

Some bands appear on the list every year – probably 20% of the list features bands that always get enough plays every year to make the top 100 on repeat… with several making the Top 10 their regular home. But what still amazes me is that about 30-40% of each years music are bands that I discover that year – either relatively new bands or bands that I, for whatever reason, had never listened to in the past but just discovered or bands that I listen to rarely but got a bit more airtime over the last 12 months.

In fact over 50% of the bands that appear on this years list didn’t appear on the 2024 rundown, and 35 are first timers!

Here’s my Top 100 Bands for 2025…

Fields of the Nephilim – Moonchild

Top 100 Bands – 2025

Position	Last Year (2024)	Band
1	2	Fields of the Nephilim
2	NE	Paris Paloma
3	15	The Mission
4	31	Hunter as a Horse
5	RE	The Midnight
6	1	CHVRCHES
7	4	Conjure One
8	10	Enigma
9	34	Holly Humberstone
10	35	Gunship

Paris Paloma – Hunter

11	23	The Sisters of Mercy
12	50	Carbon Based Lifeforms
13	8	Midnight Smoke
14	6	New Model Army
15	25	Ari Mason
16	13	The Cure
17	3	Kalandra
18	RE	All India Radio
19	NE	ALT BLK ERA
20	5	Of Verona

ALT BLK ERA – Straight To Heart

21	60	Red Mecca
22	11	Halsey
23	16	MXMS
24	79	Gracie Abrams
25	22	Somewhere off Jazz Street
26	42	Luna Shadows
27	75	Nine Inch Nails
28	RE	Timecop1983
29	36	Kaelan Mikla
30	28	Kite

Nine Inch Nails – Dead Souls

31	80	Lowering
32	NE	Shadowdream
33	NE	Sleep Token
34	NE	Dlina Volny
35	NE	AFI
36	7	Akoviani
37	RE	Portishead
38	NE	Melt Motif
39	14	So Below
40	NE	Sofia Isella

AFI – Behind The Clock

41	19	Mothica
42	20	Taylor Swift
43	RE	Carrellee
44	53	Manet
45	NE	Scott Walker
46	RE	Cocteau Twins
47	NE	Florence & The Machine
48	92	HEALTH
49	71	machineheart
50	RE	Metric

HEALTH – Children of Sorrow

51	RE	Pixies
52	24	CASHFORGOLD
53	18	Mind.In.A.Box
54	46	Emily Jane White
55	12	All About Eve
56	RE	Gary Numan
57	NE	Gazelle Twin
58	NE	Sprints
59	RE	Bjork
60	17	London Grammar
61	NE	Vioflesh
62	RE	Ritualz
63	RE	The Devil & The Universe
64	NE	The Ting Tings
65	RE	Depeche Mode
66	NE	FM-84
67	RE	Front Line Assembly
68	55	Toni Castells
69	RE	U2
70	98	In Strict Confidence
71	NE	Autoisolation
72	NE	Joan Baez
73	NE	Magic Wands
74	NE	Priest
75	NE	Fat Dog

The Ting Tings – Dreaming

76	NE	Hidden Citizens
77	RE	Pink Floyd
78	NE	Seasurfer
79	9	Kerli
80	NE	New Dad
81	NE	Dog Race
82	NE	Cult of Luna
83	NE	Orphan Zero
84	21	Clannad
85	44	Sleepthief
86	RE	The Bangles
87	RE	Purity Ring
88	NE	Tusks
89	NE	Emma Ruth Rundle
90	NE	Banshee
91	86	Billie Eilish
92	64	Midas Fall
93	NE	Suede
94	NE	Chloe Qisha
95	26	God Is an Astronaut
96	NE	Me Not You
97	RE	Project Pitchfork
98	47	Flower Face
99	NE	Saint Mesa
100	NE	Kiki Rockwell

Dog Race – The Leader