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6 Music鈥檚 Artists of the Year is a list of artists that have dominated 2025.

6 Music鈥檚 Artists of the Year is a list of artists that have dominated 2025.
We are celebrating their successes and key moments from the year, as well as hearing from their fans and peers about why they are deserving of being on this list.

In alphabetical order, the artists are: Blood Orange, CMAT, Deftones, Ethel Cain, FKA twigs, Geese, Jacob Alon, jasmine.4.t, Kae Tempest, Maruja, Pulp and Turnstile.

In this programme, we take a look at five artists and hear some of their defining music, with special words from the likes of Daniel Avery, Lou Hayter, Blossoms, CHVRCHES and Lewis Capaldi about what makes these artists so special.

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Music Played

  • Blood Orange

    Mind Loaded (feat. Caroline Polachek, Mustafa & Lorde)

    • RCA Records.

  • Blood Orange

    The Field (feat. The Durutti Column, Tariq Al-Sabir, Caroline Polachek & Daniel Caesar)

    • RCA Records.

  • CMAT

    Running / Planning (Instrumental)

    • AWAL.

  • CMAT

    Running / Planning

    • AWAL.

  • CMAT

    The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station

    • Euro-Country.
    • AWAL Recordings.

  • CMAT

    I Wanna Be A Cowboy, Baby! (Glastonbury 2025)

  • CMAT

    Take A Sexy Picture Of Me

    • AWAL.

  • Deftones

    my mind is a mountain

    • Parlophone.

  • Deftones

    Milk of the Madonna

    • milk of the madonna.
    • Reprise.
    • 1.

  • Deftones

    Infinite Source

    • Reprise Records.

  • Ethel Cain

    Willoughby's Theme

    • Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You.
    • Daughters of Cain Records.
    • 2.

  • Ethel Cain

    Eyes

    • Daughters of Cain.

  • FKA twigs

    Perfect Stranger

    • Young.

  • FKA twigs

    Eusexua

    • Young.

  • FKA twigs & Koreless

    Drums of Death

    • Drums of Death.
    • Atlantic Records.
    • 1.

  • FKA twigs

    Striptease

    • Young.

  • Geese

    Trinidad

    • Partisan Records / Play It Again Sam.

  • Geese

    Cobra

    • Getting Killed.
    • Partisan.

  • Geese

    Taxes

    • Partisan.

  • FKA twigs

    Room of Fools

    • EUSEXUA.
    • Young.
    • 5.

  • CMAT

    EURO-COUNTRY

    • AWAL.

  • Geese

    Husbands

    • Getting Killed.
    • Partisan Records.
    • 3.

  • Ethel Cain

    Nettles

    • Daughters of Cain.

  • Jacob Alon

    Of Amber

    • Universal-Island Records Ltd..

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