Tyler, The Creator was introduced right this moment 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 tip of 2025 strengthened his place as some of the gifted creatives of his period. Throughout Apple Music, Tyler had his greatest 12 months ever by way of worldwide performs, listeners, and hours listened, with followers around the globe logging greater than 4.5 billion minutes of listening time between November 2024 and October 2025.
Tyler started the 12 months together with his most formidable and profitable tour in help of his most private album so far — 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 performed creating. He wrote, recorded, and launched one other album mid-tour: DON’T TAP THE GLASS, a short but satisfying blast of pressing, stripped-down rap that’s wildly totally 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 12 months that included headlining slots at Governors Ball, Lollapalooza, Exterior Lands, and Osheaga. The 12 months 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 unimaginable all 12 months,” stated Zane Lowe, Apple Music’s world inventive director and lead anchor for Apple Music 1. “His inventive risk-taking is just matched by the care he takes to current it, and he evokes 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 respect you a lot. This 12 months, for my profession, was the largest to date. To be this 12 months’s Apple Music Artist of the 12 months, it’s sick. I respect the love. I respect the popularity. It means loads to me, particularly for the music and issues that I make. Please hold supporting of us who’re a bit out of the field for a way they do issues; it means loads 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 refined sheet of glass, and a machined and anodized aluminum physique. In a symbolic gesture, the identical chip powering the gadgets that put over 100 million songs at listeners’ fingertips additionally sits on the very coronary heart of the Apple Music Awards.