At the end of the year every publication arrogantly thinks their lists should open minds to what music has offered over the past 365 days, and I cannot throw stones because I am no different. I’d like to assume that you will find kinship in my picks for the best music this year or find something new, however. If you are subscribed to Constantly Hating, thank you and I hope you have a great holiday season and 2026. I mean this in the most complimentary sense: Erika De Casier is like a pop T.J. Mcconnell. Unfussy, productive, and gives you a nice 13 points 7 assists or in this case, a collection of very good pop tunes. It’s interesting that the Weeknd has lost any sort of critical cache. It could be his forays into other media have turned people off, or the fact that’s he’s truly dominated the 2010s in male pop, but I don’t think Hurry Up Tomorrow deserves to be forgotten. Nothing will ever surpass the hyper sleazebag Weeknd ever, but Abel is still a solid songwriter and has never made a truly bad album. LEAH LEVINSON FUCKING MENTIONED!!!!!!A rare free car album and one that glimpses at its aesthetic cohesive potential. SlimeGetEm gets into some really cool modes here. Tropicanibalismo is a Colombian avant subgenre that I’d not heard of before this, and it is some coolass shit. Wild fun jazz cumbia for the unhinged among us. Very difficult to follow As We Suffer From Memory And Imagination, but they manage to do it. One of the best records about the apocalypse in Gaza this year, Israel will never suffer enough. Liked the OsamaSon albums well enough but for me this is the definitive newgen rage rap record that came out. Los Thuthanaka has the 100 car alarms at once genre cornered but Che was a solid runner-up. Like I’d hate anything with these tags. Smoking that real shit. My goats not washed :) Forgive the oldheads the AI music videos they know not what they do. Been dope to see how niontay has evolved after falling into the extended 10kglobal universe. I like how the