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Template:Short description Template:YYYY music Template:Year nav topic5 This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1925.

File:First Electrical Recording You May Be Lonesome Columbia Flag Label.jpg
Recordings made by the new electric microphone process are released in 1925; Art Gillham is featured on this one

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The following songs achieved the highest positions in Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 and record sales reported on the "Discography of American Historical Recordings" website during 1924:<ref name=PopMemories>Template:Cite book</ref> Numerical rankings are approximate, they are only used as a frame of reference.

Rank Artist Title Label Recorded Released Chart Positions
1 Isham Jones, Guest Conductor With Ray Miller's Orchestra "I'll See You in My Dreams"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Brunswick 2788 Template:Start date Template:Start date US BB 1925 #2, US #1 for 7 weeks, 16 total weeks
2 Gene Austin "Yes Sir, That's My Baby"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Victor 19656 Template:Start date Template:Start date US BB 1925 #1, US #1 for 7 weeks, 17 total weeks
3 Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra "Sweet Georgia Brown"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Vocalion 15002 Template:Start date Template:Start date US BB 1925 #4, US #1 for 5 weeks, 13 total weeks
4 Vernon Dalhart "The Prisoner's Song"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Victor 19427 Template:Start date Template:Start date US BB 1925 #3, US #1 for 5 weeks, 20 total weeks, 1,320,356 sales thru 1930,<ref name=victor>Template:Cite web</ref> 7 more weeks at #1 1926
5 Eddie Cantor "If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Columbia 364 Template:Start date Template:Start date US BB 1925 #5, US #1 for 5 weeks, 12 total weeks
6 Al Jolson "All Alone"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Brunswick 2743 Template:Start date Template:Start date US BB 1925 #6, US #1 for 5 weeks, 9 total weeks
7 The Knickerbockers (Ben Selvin Orchestra) "Manhattan"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Columbia 422 Template:Start date Template:Start date US BB 1925 #7, US #1 for 4 weeks, 10 total weeks
8 The Cavaliers (Ben Selvin Orchestra) "Oh, How I Miss You Tonight"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Columbia 359 Template:Start date Template:Start date US BB 1925 #8, US #1 for 3 weeks, 12 total weeks
9 Marion Harris "Tea for Two"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Brunswick 2747 Template:Start date Template:Start date US BB 1925 #9, US #1 for 3 weeks, 11 total weeks
10 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra "All Alone"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Victor 19487 Template:Start date Template:Start date US BB 1925 #10, US #1 for 3 weeks, 9 total weeks, 835,586 sales (possibly combined 10 & 11)<ref name=victor />
11 John McCormack "All Alone"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Victor Red Seal 1067 Template:Start date Template:Start date US BB 1925 #11, US #1 for 2 weeks, 8 total weeks
12 Ted Lewis and His Band "O, Katharina"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Columbia 295 Template:Start date Template:Start date US BB 1925 #12, US #1 for 1 week, 9 total weeks
13 Isham Jones Orchestra "Remember"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Brunswick 2963 Template:Start date Template:Start date US BB 1925 #13, US #1 for 7 weeks, 11 total weeks
14 Gene Austin "Yearning (Just For You)"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Victor 19625 Template:Start date Template:Start date US BB 1925 #14, US #2 for 4 weeks, 8 total weeks
15 Nick Lucas "Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue?"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Brunswick 2961 Template:Start date Template:Start date US BB 1925 #15, US #2 for 3 weeks, 6 total weeks
16 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra "Oh, Lady Be Good!"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Victor 19551 Template:Start date Template:Start date US BB 1925 #17, US #2 for 2 weeks, 7 total weeks
17 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra "Indian Love Call"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Victor 19517 Template:Start date Template:Start date US BB 1925 #22, US #2 for 2 weeks, 7 total weeks, 526,884 sales<ref name=victor />
18 Bessie Smith "The Saint Louis Blues"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Columbia 14064 Template:Start date Template:Start date US BB 1925 #25, US #3 for 1 week, 6 total week, 225,000 sales
19 Vincent Lopez and His Hotel Pennsylvania Orchestra "I Want to Be Happy"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Okeh 40175 Template:Start date Template:Start date US BB 1925 #16, US #2 for 2 weeks, 7 total weeks
20 Vernon Dalhart "The Wreck of the Old 97"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Victor 19427 Template:Start date Template:Start date US BB 1925 #36, US #4 for 1 week, 8 total weeks, 1,085,985 sales thru 1930

Classical music

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  • Isidor Achron – Violin Concerto No. 1
  • Pedro Humberto Allende –
    • Mientras baja la nieve, for voice and piano
    • El surtidor, for voice and piano
    • A las nubes, for voice and piano
    • Ojitas de pena, for voice and piano
    • Tres Tonadas, for orchestra
    • Tempo di minuetto in C major, for piano
    • Tempo de vals, for harp
  • Béla Bartók – Dance Suite (version for piano of an orchestral work written in 1923)
  • Ernest Bloch – Concerto Grosso No. 1, for piano and strings
  • Frank Bridge –
    • "Golden Hair", for voice and piano
    • "Journey's End", for tenor or high baritone and piano
    • The Pneu World, for cello and piano
    • Songs of Rabindranath Tagore (3), for voice and piano, or voice and orchestra
    • Vignettes de Marseille, for piano
    • Winter Pastorale, for piano
  • Carlos Chávez –
    • Cake Walk, for piano
    • Los cuatro soles, ballet, for soprano and chamber orchestra
    • Energía, for nine instruments
    • Foxtrot, for piano
    • 36, for piano
  • Aaron Copland – Music for the Theatre, for chamber orchestra
  • Henry Cowell –
    • The Banshee, for string piano
    • Ensemble, for two violins, two cellos, and thundersticks
    • Slow Jig, for piano
  • Frederick Delius – A Late Lark, for voice and orchestra
  • Edward Elgar –
    • "The Herald", part-song, SATB
    • "The Prince of Sleep", part-song, SATB
  • Eduardo Fabini –
    • A mi río, for mixed choir and orchestra
    • Luz mala, for soprano and orchestra
    • Triste No. 1, version for orchestra
  • John Fernström – Violin Concerto No. 1
  • Jacob Gade – Jalousie, for cello and piano
  • George Gershwin – Piano Concerto in F
  • Leopold Godowsky – Java Suite
  • William Henry Harris – Faire Is the Heaven
  • Gustav Holst –
    • "God Is Love, His the Care", for choir
    • Hymns (4) for Songs of Praise, for choir
    • Motets (2), for choir
    • Ode to C.K.S. and the Oriana, for choir
    • Terzetto for flute, oboe, and viola
  • Herbert Howells – Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Jacques Ibert – Concerto for cello and wind instruments
  • John Ireland – Two Pieces for Piano 1925
  • Ernst Krenek –
    • Die Jahreszeiten, Op. 35, for choir
    • Mammon, Op. 37, ballet, for orchestra
    • Der vertauschte Cupido, Op. 38, ballet, for orchestra
  • Bohuslav Martinů – String Quartet No. 2
  • Carl Nielsen – Symphony No. 6 Sinfonia Semplice
  • Juan Carlos Paz –
    • Chorale in F-sharp major, for piano
    • Cuatro fugas sobre un tema, for piano
    • Piano Sonata No. 2, in B-flat minor
  • Sergei Prokofiev – Symphony No. 2, Iron and Steel
  • Ottorino Respighi –
    • Concerto in modo misolidio, for piano and orchestra
    • Poema autunnale, for violinand orchestra
    • Rossiniana, suite for orchestra
  • Albert Roussel –
    • Duo, for bassoon and contrabass
    • Segovia, Op. 29, for guitar
    • Serenade, Op. 30, for flute, string trio, and harp
  • Arnold Schoenberg –
    • Drei Satiren, Op. 28, for SATB choir with viola, cello, and piano
    • Vier Stücke, Op. 27, for SATB choir with clarinet, mandolin, violin, and cello
  • Erwin Schulhoff – Symphony No. 1, String Quartet No. 2 ([1])
  • Ruth Crawford Seeger –
    • The Adventures of Tom Thumb, for piano
    • Piano Preludes Nos. 1–5
  • Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 1
  • Jean Sibelius –
    • Ett ensamt skidspår, for reciting voice and piano
    • Herran siunaus, for choir and organ
    • Intrada, for organ, Op. 111, No. 1
    • Kolme johdantovuorolaulua, for choir and organ
    • Morceau romantique sur un motif de M. Jacob de Julin, for orchestra
    • Narciss, for voice and piano
    • Skolsång, for choir
    • Skyddskårsmarsch, for choir
    • Stormen [The Tempest], Op. 109, incidental music for Shakespeare's play
  • Igor Stravinsky –
    • Serenade in A, for piano
    • Suite No. 1, for small orchestra
    • Suite, "d’après thèmes, fragments et pièces de Giambattista Pergolesi", for violin and piano
  • Marcel Tournier – Images No. 1, Op. 29; Etude de Concert "Au Matin"
  • Joaquín Turina –
    • La oración del torero, Op. 34, for lute quartet, also arranged for string quartet or string orchestra
    • La venta de los gatos, Op. 32, for piano
  • Edgard Varèse – Intégrales
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams –
    • Concerto Accademico for violin and strings
    • Flos Campi, for viola, wordless choir, and small orchestra
    • Hymns (5) for Songs of Praise, for choir
    • Two Poems by Seumas O'Sullivan, for voice and piano
    • Three Songs from Shakespeare, for voice and piano
    • Three Poems by Walt Whitman, for baritone and piano
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos –
    • Chôros No. 3 ("Pica-páo"), for male choir or seven wind instruments, or both together
    • Chôros No. 5 ("Alma brasileira"), for piano
    • Chôros No. 8, for large orchestra and two pianos
    • Cirandinhas, for piano
    • O Martírio dos Insetos, for violin and orchestra
    • Sul America, for piano
  • William Walton – Portsmouth Point, concert overture
  • Kurt Weill – Violin Concerto
  • Alberto Williams –
    • Canciones pasionales, for voice and piano
    • Piezas modernas para los niños, for piano
  • Stefan Wolpe – Three Songs by Heinrich von Kleist

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