An Update Before the Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2025
Hey, guys. 2026 is upon us, which means it’s almost time for me to get to work on my list of my favorite hit songs of 2025. As people who have read this blog for the past few years likely know, I make these posts ahead of working on the actual lists because changes made from year to year are seemingly inevitable these days. And, yep, you guessed it, things are changing yet again. Two years ago, I changed my eligibility rules. Last year, I changed the list’s structure. This year, I’m changing both Now, you may remember that the last time that I changed my eligibility rules was for my list in 2023. That was the year that Billboard decided to abbreviate their tracking year to cut off in mid-October to align with their award show and give us a 49-week year. This prompted me to also consider songs that would have made the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 if it were tracked from January to December eligible for this list, which I considered to be a good fix, and it worked well for that yea...