Discogs’ Year in Review 2025 is the Definitive Global Snapshot of What Music Fans Collected Most

Portland OR, December 15, 2025 – Discogs, the world's leading music discovery and record collecting platform, today unveiled its Year in Review 2025, the definitive, data-driven look at the year in music collecting. Unlike any other year-end list, Discogs’ Year in Review is shaped entirely by collectors themselves, reflecting what fans added to their shelves, searched for in Discogs’ Marketplace, and catalogued using the world’s largest community-built music database. Read more on Billboard.

By analyzing massive volumes of global activity on the platform, Discogs offers a digital experience that celebrates the world’s most passionate music fans and reveals what they truly valued in 2025. Powered by collection statistics, discography data, and marketplace insights, the Year in Review presents a uniquely accurate portrait of vinyl culture. It captures the full scope of what collectors sought, shared, and preserved throughout the year, highlighting both global patterns and the distinct musical identities of local collecting communities across multiple regions.

Discogs’ Year in Review spans nine regions worldwide, including the USA and Canada, Latin America, the UK and Ireland, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Nordic Countries, the Middle East and Africa, East and Southeast Asia, and Australia and New Zealand. Each category, including Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Reissue of the Year, 7-Inch of the Year, and Label of the Year, features one global winner and five regional winners across all participating territories.

GLOBAL WINNERS

Global Artist of the Year: The Beatles

Global Album of the Year: The Life Of A Showgirl by Taylor Swift

Global Reissue of the Year: Channel Orange by Frank Ocean

Global 7-Inch of the Year: Fortnight by Taylor Swift

Global Label of the Year: Columbia

Full list of global and regional winners can be found here: https://www.discogs.com/year-in-review

These are some of the key highlights that emerged from the data: Taylor Swift dominated 2025 once again, standing as the only contemporary act to break through when legacy artists like The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and Madonna led many of the top lists. The Life Of A Showgirl earned Global Album of the Year, and Fortnight won Global 7-Inch of the Year. Regional results, however, varied widely. East and Southeast Asia favored Beethoven, Mozart, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Tatsuro Yamashita, reflecting strong classical and jazz collecting traditions. Latin America and the Nordic Countries were the only regions where Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl did not take the top spot. In Latin America, it was edged out by Pink Floyd’s Pink Floyd At Pompeii MCMLXXII and Chico Buarque’s Dois, while in the Nordic Countries it fell behind The Hellacopters’ Overdriver and Ghost’s Skeletá. One unexpected result came from Sleep Token, whose Even in Arcadia appeared alongside major pop and legacy acts across several lists.

In addition to unveiling its Year in Review, Discogs recently relaunched its fully redesigned mobile app, giving collectors a faster, more intuitive way to engage with the platform on the go. Discogs’ new app makes it easier than ever to discover music, identify and catalog records, track collection value in real time, and buy vinyl through an improved search and streamlined checkout experience. With an upgraded barcode scanner and instant notifications for new Marketplace listings, the app puts the full power of Discogs in collectors’ hands. 

About Discogs

Discogs is a music discovery and record collecting platform empowered by a community of obsessed fans from all over the world. With a comprehensive, crowdsourced discography integrated with a global music marketplace and personalized collection management tools, discover music, buy and sell records, connect with community, fuel your collecting journey, and deepen your connection to music.