Sleep Token Tops New York Occasions’ Greatest Songs of 2025

A Sleep Token tune is No. 1 on The New York Occasions‘ Greatest Songs of 2025 Record.

The publication shared the listing earlier this week and it incorporates a complete of fifty tracks damaged up into two classes. The primary class, rounded up by author Jon Caramanica, has “Caramel” from Sleep Token’s newest studio album Even in Arcadia on the very high.

“An enormous, gloriously foolish and brutally efficient amalgam of deserted kinds ripe for reinvigorating — rap-metal, dream-prog, pop-reggaeton, backpack hip-hop, cosplay rock, metalcore and extra,” Caramanica wrote of the tune.

“Caramel” was the second single Sleep Token shared from the album after “Emergence.” Even in Arcadia peaked at No. 1 within the U.S. after incomes a complete of 127,000 album-equivalent models, 73,000 of which had been precise album gross sales [via Billboard].

It was the band’s first No. 1 album within the U.S. and it additionally landed at No.1 on albums charts in eight different international locations.

Sleep Token, ‘Caramel’

What Different Songs Made the New York Occasions‘ Greatest Songs of 2025 Record?

Caramanica’s picks embody songs by different artists akin to Brandon Lake and Jelly Roll, Drake, Tate McRae, The Weeknd and some others. The primary 20 songs had been ranked and the remaining had been honorable mentions.

READ MORE: The 13 Largest WTF Rock + Metallic Moments of 2025

The second portion of the listing (titled “Blasts of Sass”) was written by Lindsay Zoladz, who included a rock tune at No. 13— Moist Leg’s “Mangetout.”

“On this grinning kiss-off with sass to spare (“Get misplaced eternally!”), Moist Leg’s Rhian Teasdale leaves the goal of her ire staring slightly too lengthy at a bag of snow peas earlier than the pun lastly dawns on him: Man. Get. Out,” Zoladz mentioned.

Justin Bieber, Sabrina Carpenter, Girl Gaga and Cardi B had been among the many different artists included within the “Blasts of Sass” part.