It seems that only days have passed since Classic Rock’s Best of 2025 issue was despatched to the printers, dripping with ink and wisdom, and yet here we are, halfway through the following year. And what an amazing six months it’s been.
Official music industry statistics teach us that roughly 2000 albums are released every week, which means that more than 50,000 albums have been released between the beginning of January and the last day of June. Crazy!
It’s probably fair to say that most of these albums will be rubbish, and we’re not going to pretend that we’ve listened to them all, but we have picked the 50 albums we’ve enjoyed hearing the most, and listed them below. We hope you enjoy them too.
