Tyler, The Creator was introduced right now as Apple Music’s Artist of the 12 months, recognizing the hip-hop visionary’s excellent affect on each music and tradition in 2025.
Tyler’s output via the top of 2025 bolstered his place as one of the gifted creatives of his period. Throughout Apple Music, Tyler had his finest yr ever when it comes to worldwide performs, listeners, and hours listened, with followers all over the world logging greater than 4.5 billion minutes of listening time between November 2024 and October 2025.
Tyler started the yr along with his most bold and profitable tour in help of his most private album to this point — the just-released CHROMAKOPIA. That extraordinary feat in world-building and character exploration turned his most profitable album ever on Apple Music by first-day and first-week performs. However he wasn’t executed creating. He wrote, recorded, and launched one other album mid-tour: DON’T TAP THE GLASS, a quick but satisfying blast of pressing, stripped-down rap that’s wildly completely different from its predecessor, and shot to No. 1 on Apple Music’s total charts in additional than 55 international locations the day it was launched.
These singularly vivid and wildly divergent visions of hip-hop come from a generational artist at his most fearless — all inside the span of a yr that included headlining slots at Governors Ball, Lollapalooza, Exterior Lands, and Osheaga. The yr will even see the eleventh version of L.A.’s personal Camp Flog Gnaw — the competition Tyler constructed himself.
“Tyler continues to show that something is feasible. His creativity has been unbelievable all yr,” stated Zane Lowe, Apple Music’s world inventive director and lead anchor for Apple Music 1. “His inventive risk-taking is barely matched by the care he takes to current it, and he conjures up his friends and followers now, simply as he’ll proceed to encourage generations to return.”
“To everybody who listens to my music, thanks,” stated Tyler. “I admire you a lot. This yr, for my profession, was the largest to date. To be this yr’s Apple Music Artist of the 12 months, it’s sick. I admire the love. I admire the popularity. It means quite a bit to me, particularly for the music and issues that I make. Please preserve supporting people who’re a bit out of the field for a way they do issues; it means quite a bit to us.”
To cap it off, Tyler’s imaginative and prescient and cultural imprint lengthen far past music. He’ll quickly make his feature-film debut in Marty Supreme, the Josh Safdie-directed interval drama starring Timothée Chalamet, and he closes out 2025 with 5 new GRAMMY nominations for each CHROMAKOPIA and DON’T TAP THE GLASS.
As Apple Music’s Artist of the 12 months, Tyler will obtain a bodily award that represents the extraordinary craftsmanship integral to creating music. Every Apple Music Award options Apple’s customized silicon wafer suspended between a sophisticated sheet of glass, and a machined and anodized aluminum physique. In a symbolic gesture, the identical chip powering the units that put over 100 million songs at listeners’ fingertips additionally sits on the very coronary heart of the Apple Music Awards.
