2025 in Asian music

See also: Timeline of musical events

Events

• 4–5 January – The 39th Golden Disc Awards are held in Fukuoka, Japan, to recognise achievements in South Korean music. Winners included Aespa and Seventeen. ^[1]
• 16 January – The PPMF 2024 Ryan Cayabyab Awards ceremony is held at the BGC Arts Center in Manila. The award honors two OPM icons: recipients are singers Celeste Legaspi and Odette Quesada. ^[2]
• 19 January – The annual Wish 107.5 Music Awards are held at the Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City, Philippines. ^[3]

Deaths

• 2 January – Ferdi Tayfur, 79, Turkish singer, actor, director, songwriter and screenwriter ^[4]
• 9 January – P. Jayachandran, 80, Indian playback singer ^[5]
• 27 January – Emilia Contessa, 67, Indonesian singer and actress (heart attack) ^[6]
• 2 February – Barbie Hsu, 48, Taiwanese singer and actress (pneumonia) ^[7]
• 7 February – Song Dae-kwan, 78, South Korean trot singer ^[8]
• 15 February – Pratul Mukhopadhyay, 82, Indian singer and songwriter ^[9]
• 21 February – Khalil Fong, 41, Hong Kong singer and songwriter ^[10]
• 9 March – Garimella Balakrishna Prasad, 76, Indian classical musician and composer ^[11]
• 11 March – Ayumi Ishida, 76, Japanese actress and singer ^[12]
• 17 March – Mankombu Gopalakrishnan, 77/78, Indian lyricist ^[13]
• 25 March – Sanjida Khatun, 91, Bangladeshi musicologist ^[14]
• 26 March – Shushama Das, 94, Bangladeshi folk singer ^[15]
• 6 April – Pongsri Woranuch, 85, Thai luk thung singer ^[16]
• 10 April – Titiek Puspa, 87, Indonesian singer and songwriter ^[17]
• 12 April – Pilita Corrales, 85, Filipina singer and songwriter ^[18]
• 27 May – Freddie Aguilar, 72, Filipino musician and singer-songwriter ^[19]
• 1 July – Hamdan ATT, 79, Indonesian dangdut singer ^[20]
• 13 July – Yunita Ababiel, 61, Indonesian dangdut singer ^[21]
• 18 July – M. K. Muthu, 77, Indian actor, playback singer and politician ^[22]
• 1 August – Arif Babayev, 87, Azerbaijani singer ^[23]
• 9 August – NoB, 61, Japanese singer (kidney cancer) ^[24]
• 11 August – Hemanta Dutta, Indian lyricist, 83 ^[25]

See also

• 2025 in music

References

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2. "Ryan Cayabyab Awards to honor Celeste Legaspi, Odette Quesada". The Manila Times. 9 January 2025. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
3. "The 10th Wish Music Awards". Wish1075. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
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25. "Hemanta Dutta, Veteran Lyricist and Playwright of Assam, Dies at 83". Pratidin Time. 11 August 2025. Retrieved 11 August 2025.