The Jonas Brothers had quite the year. From celebrating their 20th anniversary with a massive 75-date JONAS20:Greetings From Your Hometown Tour, to releasing their seventh studio album Greetings From Your Hometown and shooting not one, but two Disney movies — A Very Jonas Christmas (out now on Disney+) and the highly anticipated Camp Rock 3 — the band was nonstop in 2025. The excitement kicked off in March, when Nick, Joe and Kevin hosted the first-ever JONASCON at American Dream in New Jersey where they performed six sets throughout the day for the thousands of fans who flocked to see them, and is culminating in a New Year’s Eve performance.
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That jam-packed schedule — and tireless commitment to their fans — is exactly why they are leading the pack for PEOPLE’s Best of 2025 issue.
And amid their massive year as a trio, Nick, 33, Joe, 36, and Kevin, 38, have all been working on solo music of their own, with the eldest Jonas debuting his first-ever solo song, “Changing,” at the Jonas Brothers’ Aug. 23 show in Boston. The song was officially released on Nov. 20.
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“[I’m] so happy it was so well received,” Kevin tells PEOPLE of the positive fan response at PEOPLE’s Best of 2025 cover shoot in Houston in October. “[I’m] excited about the song “Changing” and wherever it leads me. But for now, it’s really fun to play on the tour and support from the guys to be able to do that and find my journey. Twenty years in the making.”
But that’ doesn’t mean fans should expect a solo Kevin album in the near future. “[I’m] still figuring it out. Taking it one song at a time,” he says.
Joe, who released a solo album titled Music For People Who Believe in Love earlier this year, says in addition to more of his own music, there is also DNCE album “on its way.”
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“We went to New York and had a week at one of the most incredible studios. We have four rooms going at once at some points. You just step in and it could be Nick’s solo song or it could be a solo song for me or DNCE, the brothers,” Joe recalls, referring to his band with guitarist JinJoo Lee and drummer Jack Lawless who are both currently on tour with the Jonas Brothers. “To wear different creative hats was really rewarding. I have a bunch of stuff in the works.”
On Nov. 3, after sharing new music at various Jonas Brothers show in the weeks leading up, Nick announced his next solo album, Sunday Best, during an his intimate Sunday Best Brunch at Nellie’s Southern Kitchen in Las Vegas. The album, out Feb. 6, will be his first solo record in nearly six years.
At PEOPLE’s Best of 2025 PEOPLE shoot, Nick opened up about the experience of recording the album while on tour.
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“The writing process and staying creative and cutting vocals backstage has been a really good way to stay inspired and excited and energized because you get to see how there’s the possibility that these things you’re working on, you’re creating, can then be performed in front of a crowd like that each night,” he says. “It’s a really gratifying thing. Even yesterday, Kevin and I, up to the minute we were basically called to go and perform, we’re backstage working on a song.”
Of his brothers’ new work, Kevin says fans have lots to look forward to: “The stuff they’re creating is the greatest music that I’ve heard from them both, ever.”
