Every Tuesday and Thursday, CMU Approved introduces an artist we are genuinely excited about, some of whom, we reckon, you possibly haven’t heard before.
Before the first CMU Approved of 2026 later this week, we have collected everything that featured in 2025 into a playlist. Some of these artists had already built impressive catalogues when we approved them, others had just dropped their first single, but all of them deserved more ears.
You can listen to all the approved tracks from 2025 on this Spotify playlist or you can explore the original articles if you want to dive deeper. Consider it your shortcut to 2025’s breakthrough artists.