The Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2025

 

 

The Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2025

And so it begins…

We’re about to lift off! We have passed the 8:00 GMT deadline on December the 15th of 2025. We tallied all the votes and the results are in! No less than 192 lists came in through the email, phone, Instagram and messenger. And one list detailing seven great albums arrived just moments ago and we quickly computed that one as well. It was fun seeing the Numbers One and Two constantly changing places. As well as the Three and Four. And the Five and Six. Which all seemed to exist in a league of their own. Some 572 albums received votes this year, which seems a lot less than earlier years with these amount of voters. But many lists only detailed a Top 5 or Top 10 this year. Which might explain why… 

So, my thanks goes out, like every year, to all those amazing bands and artists who provided us with so much incredible music, so much musical mojo, that we all love so dearly. Personally, I reckon music comes closest to that thing people call magic! We also thank the labels that release those albums, the PR people that promote them and you all: the listeners and the voters! Thank you all! I love doing this! And I am humbled to receive so many lists, in awe that some of you have been sending those lists since we started doing this in 2009 or a year or two later. And humbled for the amount of you heavy music fiends that follow along for the Countdown ride! Thank you all! 

And now, we go on to reveal the Number 20 of 2025! The Number 20 album according to all you crazies out there who decided to vote for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown this year!

So… without further ado… (drumroll!)

We give you, according to all of your votes,

The Number 20 album of 2025!