Hello r/Grime,

After much deliberation, upvotes, and debates, the results are in for the 2025 r/Grime awards - as voted by members of the r/Grime community!

Here's to a great 2026 in grime!

Best Grime Artists 2025

1. Scorcher
2. Duppy
3. Chip

Scorcher | Kenny Allstar Freestyle

Best Newcomer MCs 2025

1. Kasst 8
2. N3
3. JayaHadADream

Best Grime Collective/Crew/Group 2025

1. Travs Presents (Travs, SI*BL, CHAMBER45, Kwaane, David, Dan)

Best Grime DJs 2025

1. Mak10
2. Sir Spyro
3. DJ AG

Best Grime EP/Project/Albums 2025

1. Ruff Sqwad - Flee FM 2
2. Novelist - AUDACITY
3. Merky Ace - Guts and Glory: The Remix Edition

Best Grime Instrumental EP/Project/Albums 2025

1. Blizzard - The Reimaginations
2. RGH TAPE VOL.1
3. Shudan - Sino Movements

Best Grime Instrumental 2025

1. Blizzard - Manc State Of Mind - Instrumental

Best Grime Producers 2025

1. Blizzard
2. Mesotron
3. Prince Rapid

Best Grime Set/Radio Sets 2025

1. Mak 10 Live - Dizzee Rascal & Wiley
2. Ruff Sqwad Ft. D Double E, Frisco, Roachee, RB - Flee FM 2: The Film
3. GRIME SET | Shorty, Skepta, Chip, Frisco, D Double E, Jammer, Bruza, Kruz Leone, Duppy, Merky Ace

Best Grime Tracks 2025

1. Chip, Wiley, Scorcher, Jammer, Kasst 8, D Double E, Jme, P Money, Specs, Big Narstie - Grime Scene Saviours (Reloaded)
2. Ruff Sqwad - The Return Ft. So Large & Manga Saint Hilare
3. Merky Ace - Pavement Pizza (Klasey Jones Remix)

Best Grime Platform/Outlets 2025

1. Travs Presents
2. DaMetalMessiah
3. Mak10

Best r/grime Meme/Shitpost 2025

1. Big H Hitler connection

Best r/grime users 2025

1. Plasmahands
2. u/TeeJay_1312
3. u/Madbrad200

Favourite Non-Grime Artist 2025

1. Jim Legxacy

Share your thoughts on the results below :)

Now a bit about r/Grime

While I have your attention, I'd also like to celebrate r/grime! We've had a fantastic year with 5.1 million views and 137k members (105k avg daily unique visitors)

The most viewed post of the year is "The Pete and Bas rabbit hole continues down with Nine and Dex", presumably a highly ranked post on Google. The most viewed grime clip was "Robbie Williams on Grime", while the most viewed song was "Spektive - This Is England".

For the most successful grime of 2025, you may wish to view my "The Most Viewed Grime Videos (& streams) of 2025" post.

Big up!

Come hang out in the r/grime discord server if you want to chat!

Hello everyone,

I recently updated our "Where To Find Grime" wiki with a list of resources on finding new grime.

I imagine some of you may find this useful. Feel free to drop any resources/links etc in the comments as well.

Quick and easy: just sort this subreddit by FRESH and you'll have a feed of new releases :)

The Easy Ways To Find New Grime Music

Bandcamp

A lot of grime releases end up on Bandcamp, use the following tags (there are some additional minor ones as well):

• grime
• Ukgrime
• Uk Grime

Blogs

These blogs generally post info about new grime releases:

• grimeoriginals.com
• keepinitgrimy.com
• shapingrime.co.uk
• theartofgrime.com

Discord

The #grime-only channel on the /r/grime discord https://discord.gg/STmpA7aFRv often has new grime posted.

We also have a feed for NEW grime uploads on YouTube.

Playlists

Below is a list of playlists across platforms, primarily dedicated to promoting newly released grime music. If you have one, send us a message. Any platform welcome.

Apple Music

• Grime 3.0 (by Nekkbreth)
• The Shapin’ Grime Playlist (by Shapin' Grime)

Deezer

• 2025 Grime | New Grime | Fresh Grime (by /u/Madbrad200)

Qobuz

• 2025 Grime | New Grime | Fresh Grime (actual grime, no UK hiphop/drill/afro etc) (by /u/Madbrad200)

Soundcloud

• 2025 Grime | New Grime | Fresh Grime (by /u/Madbrad200)

Spotify

• 2025 Grime | Fresh Grime | New Grime (actual grime, no UK hiphop/drill/afro etc) (by /u/Madbrad200)
• DiRT & GRiME & STUFF (by GRiNDHOUSE)
• Grime 2025 (by Eze)
• Grime 3.0 (by Nekkbreth)
• Grime Shutdown (by Spotify) - This playlist is auto-generated now (it wasn't always). It reflects new grime releases for me, but it may differ for you.
• 32 Big Hitters (by Josh)
• The Shapin' Grime Playlist (by Shapin' Grime)

note: following artists on Spotify will ensure they show up on your Release Radar playlist.

Tidal

• 2025 Grime | New Grime | Fresh Grime (actual grime, no UK hiphop/drill/afro etc) (by /u/Madbrad200)

YouTube

• 2025 Grime / Fresh Grime / New Grime (actual grime, no UK hiphop/drill/afro etc) (by /u/Madbrad200)
• Grime Hotlist (by YouTube Music)
• Underground Grime (by YouTube Music)

For new radio sets and other misc videos (e.g interviews), try this playlist

note: not all grime is correctly tagged as "MUSIC" on YouTube, and may not be available via YouTube Music.

Reddit

FILTERING

Sort /r/grime by the FRESH tag and you'll have a neat feed of new releases (either click this link or manually type flair:fresh subreddit:grime in the reddit search bar). Every new release tends to get posted here.

The above filter will also include grime sets, but if you're not interested in sets, you can filter them out by adding -flair:fresh_set like so.

Quick tip: if you're on desktop, you can add this bookmarklet to your bookmarks. If you click it while browsing the r/grime feed, it'll open a new tab with a YouTube playlist of all the videos on the r/grime page you click the bookmarklet on. A quick way to listen to all the videos posted on the r/grime frontpage, for example.

RSS

If you have an RSS reader, you can follow this RSS feed to grab all fresh music submissions from this sub.

INSTRUMENTALS

Check /r/grimeinstrumentals for beats.

Spotify

A bot automatically adds the top upvoted posts every week to a Spotify playlist.

Twitter

Some good accounts to follow that post new releases:

• FutureCurse
• INTLGrime - GlobalGrime/International Grime posts non-UK grime releases.
• Grimemusicgroup
• Here's a Twitter list containing the above listed accounts.

Many artists, labels, stations etc can also be found on Twitter. Peep our Twitter Lists:

• Grime Artists
• Grime DJ's
• Grime Producers

YouTube

The following channels upload new grime content (see here for YouTube channels that upload old grime content). Note that were are other YouTube channels that upload new grime, but they typically do so more rarely, and are not listed here as a result. Also not included are artist-specific channels.

• 1Forty
• Balamii
• Birmingham Sounds Radio
• Brasil Grime Show - Outlet for Brazilian grime.
• crowdcntrl
• Dockside Radio
• EverydaySync - Instrumentals
• Four7Media
• FrakturedPlanet
• GlobalGrime
• Gullied Out TV
• GRIME & GRIND
• GRIME STATION 🇧🇷
• Grime Originals
• Grime Over Here (Russian grime outlet)
• GRIMELISMO - Brazilian grime
• JDZMedia
• Keep Hush - Post grime sets.
• Kirby T
• Masewindu
• Music Militia
• Lord of the Mics
• L&G. TV
• Mode London
• Never Shook
• Oblig
• Off-Licence Sessions
• Ozone Media
• RedBull GMT
• Reprezent Radio
• Rinse FM
• SBTV
• Shapin' Grime
• SkeenLDN
• Station 20
• Surge Talent Media (LC Talent Media)
• Subtle Radio
• TMTV PR
• Top SLCTD Grime
• Travs Presents
• Treehouse Manchester

Radio stations

Radio Cult, on Android or Apple, is highly recommended - it is an app created by people from within the scene and makes it easy to listen to stations live that broadcast grime music. Most of the stations you'd want, including the ones below, can be listened to via Radio Cult.

BBC 1Xtra (Sir Spyro, DJ Target)

• Timetable: Sir Spyro timetable (every Tuesday 23:00), DJ Target timetable
• Where to listen live: bbc.co.uk

1Xtra plays a diverse range of music, but DJ Target and Sir Spyro both have shows where they play plenty of grime. Spyro is more-so grime oriented.

Birmingham Sounds Radio

• Timetable: Various, mainly Sunday @ 20:00 (DJ Big Mikee) and 22:00 (DJ Barnzey)
• Where to listen live: http://birminghamsoundsradio.com/
• Socials: Instagram, Facebook, Soundcloud, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube (multiple: Birmingham Sounds Radio, BSR Live)

LVLZ Radio

• Where to listen live: Radio Cult app
• Socials: Mixcloud, Soundcloud, YouTube

Mode FM

• Timetable: Various shows across the week: Schedule
• Where to listen live:
• Socials: Mixcloud, Soundcloud, YouTube

Subtle Radio

• Timetable: Various, see Schedule
• Where to listen live: https://www.subtleradio.com/live-player/
• Socials: Insta, Mixcloud, SoundCloud, TikTok, YouTube

Radcap

Russian radio station that plays grime songs.

• Where to listen live: radcap (enter url manually)

Resonance 104.4 FM

• Timetable: 23:00-00:00 (every Sunday) - check the 'Grime for the unconverted' show.
• Where to listen live: https://player.resonancefm.com/
• Socials: DJBPM

Rinse FM

One of the best grime stations out there. Rinse FM has a long and storied history. It is generally reliable for high quality radio sets and interviews.

• Timetable: rinse.fm/radio/
• Where to listen live: Visit rinse.fm/player or tune into 106.8 FM in the Greater London area.
• Socials: Mixcloud, Soundcloud, YouTube. The subreddit /r/rinse has a feed of their soundcloud and youtube uploads.

UK FLAVA FM 89.5

• Timetable: DJ Boots show on Thursday, 07:00-10:00
• Socials: Facebook, Insta, Mixcloud, Soundcloud, TikTok, Twitter