About the countdown

25 Days of Music started in December 2007 on musicmastermind.com: one album per day, from #25 on December 1st to #1 on Christmas Day. The blog later lived at musicsmaster.com, and the tradition carried on through year-end lists on LinkedIn.

This site is the permanent home for every list — 19 years and 475 albums, 2007 through 2025. The early years were recovered from web archives of the original blog, and the recent ones from year-end posts.

A handful of years in the middle haven't turned up yet: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021. Those are marked placeholder and currently hold the year's most acclaimed albums instead, standing in until the originals are recovered. 2017 is a hybrid — its top ten is real, the rest is filler. Entries tagged unverified have the right artist but an album title that was reconstructed rather than read off the original post.

Written by Logan Lenz.