Apple Music names Tyler, The Creator as its Artist of the Year 2025

[Teletubby 153,400]

Does Tyler, The Creator ever get tired? It's a silly enough question at face value, but when you consider what the Los Angeles-hailing, Odd Future-founding, Golf Wang- world-building creative has given to culture over the past decade and a half-only to have ratcheted up that same output with the release of CHROMAKOPIA and DON'T TAP THE GLASS in under a year's time-well, if rap were a sport, we'd be testing this guy for PEDs.
His output through the end of 2025 did more than just reinforce his position as one of the most gifted creatives of his era. It confirmed him as a generational voice, an artist brave free enough to follow the flight path of every musical great that preceded him, an MC and producer who will always zig when expected to zag, leaving the game better for it in the process.
July gave us the surprise release of DON'T TAP THE GLASS, his ninth studio album, a conspicuously danceable acknowledgement of the old-school hip-hop aesthetics and timeless Black ingenuity he'd been absorbing since he first understood music to be one of his callings. The album was a purposeful "two-step" away from the highly emotional and sometimes rigid introspection of 2024's CHROMAKOPIA, a project fans celebrated as his most personal to date.
"I'm not saying it's the most mature, deep ****-everyone has different lives-but for me, whether it's me talking about my relationship with my hair and how that's affected me, or me almost being a father last year, or, you know, the relationship that I have with my father now-just so many things that I've decided to dive deep into-after the way that got off, I just wanted to be silly again," Tyler told Zane Lowe of his approach to DON'T TAP THE GLASS. "No deep album cuts, no slow emotional ****-I just wanna be fun and say outrageous **** and say inside jokes that me and my friends laugh at, and just talk big fly ****."
You would have both heard about and seen "big fly ****" in the video for DON'T TAP THE GLASS's "Stop Playing With Me", which features the cherry-red Ferrari F40 Tyler purchased this past June. If you caught him wheeling around LA in it, consider yourself lucky, as headlining slots at Governors Ball, Lollapalooza, Outside Lands and Osheaga kept him tearing down stages the continent over. Which says nothing of the stage-and accompanying festival-he built himself, LA's own Camp Flognaw, now in its 11th year.
By the time we bid farewell to 2025, Tyler will have made his feature-film debut in Marty Supreme, the Josh Safdie-directed period drama about a table tennis wunderkind, played by Timothée Chalamet. One could posit that it would take similarly brilliant weirdo artists to draw a long-established musical great into his cinematic era, but the truth is that we only see Tyler when he wants us to. And as our Apple Music Artist of the Year for 2025, here's hoping he ups it on us once again in '26. Celebrate Tyler's Artist of the Year appointment with a special selection of playlists dedicated to the songs and voices that have shaped the last 12 months.
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Edited 2 hours ago by Teletubby

[Ladle Ghoulash 29,396]

Kathryn Hudson, you will always be famous 

[bpmMonkey 6,497]

Won't be Gaga. Who ever's gonna get it is deserving, but also needs the platform more than Gaga does - it's also a corporate pick, so it'll be someone who's already heavily involved with Apple. 

[monstrosity 3,957]

Gonna be Bad bunny because the SuperBowl is sponsored by Apple Music 

[Jawline4dayz 448]

3 minutes ago, bpmMonkey said:

Won't be Gaga. Who ever's gonna get it is deserving, but also needs the platform more than Gaga does - it's also a corporate pick, so it'll be someone who's already heavily involved with Apple. 

Gaga has been involved with Apple though lol. I can see it being her or Bad Bunny since he’s doing the Halftime Show  and that’s sponsored by Apple.

[River 119,456]

Green - GoE

Blue - Vanish

Yellow - Shadow

Orange - PC

Black-White - Mayhem cover

 

It’s NOT Gaga confirmed 

 

 

[andy232000 12,562]

It’s gonna be Bad Bunny because of the Super Bowl. At this point I’m getting tired of him winning everything 

[River 119,456]

It's Tyler, The Creature.

Everything in the pic is his personal gear apparently. 

[bpmMonkey 6,497]

7 minutes ago, Jawline4dayz said:

Gaga has been involved with Apple though lol. 

That's why I said "heavily"

[MOT 3,254]

My money would be on Gaga. Herself and Apple are thick as thieves, and Bad Bunny has won it before.

Plus ..... she actually IS the artist of the year.

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[Economy 50,748]

1 hour ago, bpmMonkey said:

Won't be Gaga. Who ever's gonna get it is deserving, but also needs the platform more than Gaga does - it's also a corporate pick, so it'll be someone who's already heavily involved with Apple. 

I think it will be Bad Bunny

[TheFrenchGuy 1,174]

My money is on Sabrina Carpenter. She's the face on the best of 2025 playlist and that baby blue guitar fits. It could very well be Bad Bunny too

Edited 3 hours ago by TheFrenchGuy

[NemoMyName 1,054]

misleading post

[Rahrahbitchson 21,358]

My money is on Rebecca Black cuz i think Friday is when most people use apple music and also because Black Friday is just around the corner

[InTheCloset 20,499]

1 hour ago, River said:

It's Tyler, The Creature.

Everything in the pic is his personal gear apparently. 

Imagine us gunning for Gaga against Kendrick and Bunny and Tyler wins