2025 Song of the Year

Once again, a need to play something during Christmas Eve Mass has come around, so it’s time to elect 2025’s Song of the Year.

No obvious song stood out this year, unlike 2023 and 2024. Looking back on what new music I listened to, it was mainly a lot of Enya and Lee Rosevere, with a bit of Anders Enger Jensen. Near the end of the year I also started listening to Jon Hopkins, in addition to one or two other artists featured in the “medleys” published on Music For Programming. Apparently the way I find new music — YouTube videos or finding something I can put on the background for a commute or project work — remains unchanged.

So, which one get’s Song of the Year for 2025? I’ll spare you the tension: it’s Dark Sky Island, by Enya.

And despite the reason being mainly that this seemed like the appropriate song to play at the time, it’s also ties in with the other theme of the year, in that it’s one song I remember playing while driving to the train station thanks to bus replacements.

So bravo, Enya. You’ve still got it.