The 10 best music videos of 2025

October 27, 2025 is the day that marked the current year. It's the day the video comes out Berghainthe first excerpt from Lux of Rosalía. A song, and a video, that quickly transformed a mediocre year into a year to remember. Not only that Lux it's our 2025 album, but Berghain it's definitely the video of 2025. Something happened before and after, of course, but the dominance of the Spanish musician in recent months has ended up obscuring or making us forget some very beautiful things that have happened in recent months.

This is your chance to catch up on the 10 best video clips of the season. We display them in alphabetical order to give you the opportunity to review some songs that marked the year also thanks to really focused videos, as in the case of Doechii or Sabrina Carpenter. In between also the (temporary) return of Daft Punk thanks to Fornite and a bit of rock done well.

A road trip with a couple of friends. An old blue Peugeout 309. As a destination, a small private party in the fields of Essex, England, lit only by a bonfire. It takes very little for Dev Hynes to self-direct a video that perfectly matches the nostalgic climate of The Fieldthe very successful single Essex Honey.

It's strange to write about a Daft Punk video 12 years after their breakup. Yet, if you think about it, Daft Punk have never stopped in recent years digging into their archives and always giving us new, unreleased or reworked material. Contact was presented in collaboration with Fornite, given that the two robots were included in one of the most famous video games of all time. The video, which draws from the spatial aesthetics of works such as 2001 – A Space Odyssey And Interstellaris the celebration of one of the projects that have given the most to pop music and electronic music.

The sudden surge in Doechii's career owes much (if at all) to Denial Is a River and his video. If the song, in itself, is an honest and ironic tale of one's personal disasters (between betrayals, drug, alcohol and sex abuse, and exes who destroy her home), the video, which features cameos from Schoolboy Q, Earl Sweatshirt, refers to black American sitcoms like 8 under one roof And The Fresh Prince of Bel-Airwith a sudden final change of register that reveals all the genius of the project.

It was probably impossible to repeat the exceptional nature of a video like that of Cellophane the moment, perhaps, when we truly understood the power of Fka Twigs. Striptease however, she does everything to not be outdone, with the British artist dancing sensually in the lanes of a tunnel where cars whiz by at her sides, in a precarious tension.

What happens when two emos fall in love? Obviously they write their names with a knife on the bark of a tree, they are separated from their parents, they chase each other through their lives. And obviously, there are quite a few spiders around. What is striking, however, is the change of aesthetic register of the circus finale, which elevates the clip directed and written by Luna Carmoon, earning Fontaines DC the Top 10. It's wonderful to be young, right, especially if you're emo and in love.

A song full of pain, of those who have resigned themselves to living in their land, unable to escape it. The tense words of For Those I Love, reinforced by the anaphora of “Stay here in Ireland” and by that “I'll never leave” at the end of the song, find further strength in this slow camera that frames various monuments and historic buildings covered by a transparent white sheet. Are they mutilated monuments? Abandoned? Under repair? You have to get to the end of the video to find out.

64 videos shot and then edited and shown on 64 iPhones. This is the concept behind yet another stroke of genius by Ok Go, the music video band par excellence. Easier to see than to explain.

2025 in music can be divided into two moments: pre-Berghain and post-Berghain. Rosalía's return is as grandiose as the piece, the featuring (Björk and Yves Tumor) and the orchestral arrangement which, throughout the video, follows the Spanish artist in her daily life. She herself said that for Lux it is the result of his studies and of when, walking in the corridors of the conservatory, he heard classical music coming from everywhere. A bit like God, a fundamental relationship in Rosalía's life and in the writing of Lux.

Fun, crazy, surreal. Vania Heymann & Gal Muggia write what is probably the most successful video of the year. Not only that Manchild it is stylistically impeccable, with its dozens of plots and situations, but it is also perfectly in line with the aesthetic universe of Sabrina Carpenter, in which eroticism and irony go hand in hand. In this criticism of the boy-man, the trio finds the winning key for a video which – which happens too rarely lately – is a plus to the song. Watching the video of Manchild one can only side with the Sabrina team, here produced by Jack Antonoff.

Can a video capture the energy of hardcore? Yes, if the video is thought of as a concert and Turnstile is playing. Sometimes a little is enough, sometimes energy is enough.