Tyler, The Creator was announced today as Apple Music’s Artist of the Year, recognizing the hip-hop visionary’s outstanding impact on both music and culture in 2025. Tyler, The Creator is Apple Music’s Artist of the Year for 2025. Tyler, The Creator was announced today as Apple Music’s Artist of the Year, recognizing the hip-hop visionary’s outstanding impact on both music and culture in 2025.
Tyler’s output through the end of 2025 reinforced his position as one of the most gifted creatives of his era. Across Apple Music, Tyler had his best year ever in terms of worldwide plays, listeners, and hours listened, with fans around the world logging more than 4.5 billion minutes of listening time between November 2024 and October 2025.
Tyler began the year with his most ambitious and successful tour in support of his most personal album to date — the just-released CHROMAKOPIA. That extraordinary feat in world-building and character exploration became his most successful album ever on Apple Music by first-day and first-week plays. He wrote, recorded, and released another album mid-tour: DON’T TAP THE GLASS, a brief yet satisfying blast of urgent, stripped-down rap that’s wildly different from its predecessor, and shot to No. 1 on Apple Music’s overall charts in more than 55 countries the day it was released.
Tyler, The Creator was announced today as Apple Music’s Artist of the Year, recognizing the hip-hop visionary’s outstanding impact on both music and culture in 2025.
Summary: Apple Music crowns Tyler, The Creator as Artist of the Year for 2025, recognizing his influential year across touring, releases, and global streaming milestones.