It was a year of Kendrick Lamar shading Drake at the Super Bowl, plus excitement about Bad Bunny performing during the halftime show for next year’s big game, Beyoncé hosting a ho-down at Mercedes-Benz Stadium for the Cowboy Carter Tour and a few mixed reviews from Swifties on Taylor Swift’s latest album.
On Thursday’s “Closer Look” program host Rose Scott discusses the best songs that shook the year with Music journalist and author of the Record Redux Series, Quentin Harrison.
He has listened to more than 100 albums throughout the year and released a playlist of the songs from his Top 50 albums of 2025, but here are the albums that made Harrison’s Top 5.
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