A selection of the best music videos released in 2025

As the debate rages on about whether or not music videos are still relevant in the 2020s, this year saw plenty of prolific stars proving that there’s still plenty of life in the artform yet.

Over the course of 2025, the likes of Sabrina Carpenter, Lady Gaga and Chappell Roan released music videos that helped them achieve some of the year’s biggest hits, while HuffPost faves like Jade, Addison Rae and Doja Cat elevated their latest musical offerings with their accompanying videos.

Here are 25 of the must-see clips released in 2025 proving that there’s nothing quite like a music video when it’s done right…

25. Eli – Girl Of Your Dreams

Directed by Ayleen Valentine and Eli

For her debut album, Eli threw it back to the height of TV talent searches in the mid-2000s, coming up with a fictional contest of her own, the titular Stage Girl, which she most notably brought to life in the accompanying music video for her single Girl Of Your Dreams.

The DIY feel of her video only adds to the charm and noughties nostalgia of it all, and while the whole thing is peppered with the playful and irreverent sense of humour that has made Eli one of our favourite new artists of the year, you also can’t help but root for our central heroine as she bears her soul for a judging panel only interested in the superficial.

24. Zara Larsson – Midnight Sun

Directed by Charlotte Rutherford

In 2024, Zara Larsson and Clean Bandit’s collaboration Symphony became an unexpected TikTok hit thanks to a popular meme juxtaposing the song and wholesome imagery (mostly dolphins, unicorns, rainbows and the like) alongside more bleak messages.

Rather than distancing herself from the meme, the Swedish singer rather smartly decided to adopt this as the aesthetic of her latest album, Midnight Sun, most notably in the music video for the title track.

Set against the clubby beats and anthemic chorus, Zara embraces a Y2K aesthetic in the Midnight Sky video, soaking up the sun in a Windows 2000 screensaver-friendly landscape, surrounded by CGI Word Art-esque messages that made us want to run and update our Bebo page.

That she was able to have this much fun while absolutely serving and delivering some of the year’s most astounding choreo is just a credit to what a top-tier pop artist Zara is, and we’re so happy that 2025 has been one of her biggest years to date.

23. Sugababes – Jungle

Directed by Dora Paphides

When the Sugababes first burst onto the pop scene in the early 2000s, what set them apart from so many of their peers at the time was that they were perceived to have been so much “cooler” than their pop peers.

Back in March, riding a wave of good will spurred on by numerous TV performances and show-stopped appearances at Glastonbury, the chart-topping girl group released their music video since 2013’s Flatline – and it was comforting to see that in an ever-changing world, you can still count on the Sugababes to serve cool like few others in pop can pull off.

Kicking things off with a sequence involving Siobhan Donaghy walking on a treadmill in pointed high heels, we’re then reintroduced to Keisha Buchanan, giving us a flawless look to match her voice, and Mutya Buena at her most Mutya Buena, delivering lines like “oops, there goes my vanity” while dressed to the absolute nines.

As ever with the Sugababes, the solo sections are great, but the real high points are those moments they join forces, showing off the girl group’s true magic.

22. Katy Perry – Bandaids

Directed by Christian Breslauer

After an iffy 2024 thanks to the shaky roll-out of her 143 album, Katy Perry changed tack this year, releasing the stand-alone break-up single Banaids, in the wake of her split from Orlando Bloom.

Throwing it back to the earlier years of her career when Katy was synonymous with videos that were both elaborate but fun, the Grammy nominee channelled Final Destination in the Bandaids video, as she found herself in increasingly ridiculous situations cheating death, cramming as many as nine near-misses into the four-minute clip.

While ostensibly about putting a difficult break-up behind you and surviving, it’s difficult not to also read another message alluding to the many wrong turns of the 143 era and the knocks she took after her recent space trip, too…

21. Haim – Down To Be Wrong

Directed by Bradley & Pablo

If there’s one thing to glean from Haim’s Down To Be Wrong music video, it’s that you don’t mess with a Haim sister, because she will haunt you – and so will the rest of the family.

Logan Lerman discovers this the hard way in the clip, which sees the musical trio refusing to give him a good night’s sleep at an LA hotel, getting under his skin in increasingly silly – though still visually impressive – set-ups.

20. Doja Cat – Stranger

Directed by Dave Meyers

Having already established herself as one of the most impressive music video artists of her........

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