The Best of 2025 – Words & Music

As we prepare to welcome 2026, the teams at *Words & Music* et *Words & Music* took a moment to look back at 2025 and offer you their Top 10 SOCAN member songs prepared by some of our regular collaborators. Happy Holidays!

Eric Parazelli
As we prepare to welcome 2026,the teams at *Words & Music* et *Words & Music* took a moment to look back at 2025 and offer you their Top 10 SOCAN member songs prepared by some of our regular collaborators. Happy Holidays!

1. Vulgar machines – Om mani padme hum

2. Lou-Adriane cassidy – 16 years old almost thirty
3.Antoine Corriveau, with Rose Perron – Pastoral
4. Robert Robert, with Virginie B – Let’s go to Rio
5. JF Pauzé – Tangled in her hair
6. Ariane Roy – I.W.Y.B.
7. Loud, with Salomé Leclerc – Between us
8. High Klassified, with Hubert Lenoir – red White
9. N No – Corps
10. Soraï, with Virginie B – Though Crowd

howard Druckman
Howard Druckman is the editor-in-chief of SOCAN’s online magazine *Words & Music*.## The SOCAN Music Year in Review: 2023 – Top tracks & Ones to Watch

1. Lou-Adriane Cassidy – Breath blow
2. Pierre Kwenders – We Like
3. Scourge DiCaprio – Big Wop
4. Calamine – Echo chamber
5. LaF,with Ariane Roy – June
6. Marie-Claudel – The end of an era
7. Mzrabelle – All Black
8. High klassified,with Hubert Lenoir – Red white
9. Serinsucrated,Mike Shabb,Obia with a chef – Omniscience
10. Loud,with Salomé Leclerc – Between us

Del F. Cowie
Del Cowie, regular contributor to Words & Musicworks as an author, producer and researcher for the Netflix documentary series Hip Hop Evolution which received a peabody Award and an International Emmy award. He has also been a producer for CBC Music and was hip-hop editor for Exclaim! magazine for over a decade.

1. I’m Gray – Lie Down
2. Planet Giza – The Fall
3. Tanika Charles – Talk to Me Nice
4. BadBadNotGood, avec VCR – found A Light
5. Shad – Bars and BBQs
6. Daniel Caesar – root of All Evil
7. Rochelle Jordan – Ladida
8. Tre Mission – Creole
9. Merna – Ours to Keep
10. Thelonius## nancy Dutra’s Top 10 Tracks of 2024

    

    Here are my top 10 tracks of 2024, a year filled with astonishing music.

    1. Lou-adriane Cassidy – Tell me tell me tell me
    2. I’m Gray – Shell (of a Man)
    3. Allison Russell, Kristen Personius – Love I Found
    4. Ron Sexsmith – Rose Town
    5. Amanda Rheaume – One of These Days
    6. the Beaches – Did I say To Much
    7. Marie Davidson – Sexy Clown
    8. Rick White, The Sadies – Fly Away
    9. William Prince – For the First Time
    10. April – Stranger in you

    Élise Jetté
    Collaborator of Words & Music, Élise Jetté is an autonomous journalist, researcher, columnist and host. You can hear it at CISM and on ICI Première.

    Begonia – So High

11. John Borah – Here In My Heart
12. Jerry Leger – Drive away Tonight
13. MOONRIVR – You Get Me By
14. Ron Sexsmith – Don’t Lose Sight
15. Rheostatics – The Inland Sea
16. William Prince – Thousand Miles of Chain
17. dominique Fils-Aimé – Going Home
18. Sloan – Capitol Cooler
19. Julianna Riolino – The Less I Know

Claude Côté

Freelance journalist at The Press and Words & Music, he collaborated with the newspaper See, hosted on CIBL radio, and was a music columnist at RDI for 22 years, delivering columns on ICI Première and ICI Musique.