This year's defining songs include a pop gem from Taylor Swift's latest album, Olivia Dean's breakout hit, and Kendrick Lamar ...

A glance at some of those chart-toppers in 2025, including Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” Sabrina Carpenter ’s “Manchild,” Alex ...

From Clipse to Metro Boomin and Cardi B, the year was full of memorable rap songs that expanded and experimented with the ...

Songs about love, sex, tax and demon hunters ranked among the best music of 2025, according to a "poll of polls" conducted by ...

NPR listeners share the one song that hit them the hardest this year, and tell us why they laughed, cried, or simply couldn’t ...

Here are the 51 best rock and metal songs of 2025! We know you all have a long, long list of your favorites from this year, whether it's in a playlist curated by our streaming overlords and ones ...

From tear-jerkers to mic-drops, NPR's music critics share the 2025 lyrics that made them laugh, cry and hit replay.

Thirty-eight of the 40 most-played country songs of 2025 have one thing in common, and it's not what you'd expect. Taste of Country actually looked at the 500 top radio songs up to Aug. 21, 2025. Once ...

As October 2025 comes to a close, it’s once again clear that K-pop didn’t just participate in the month’s global music conversation but was one of the drivers. Across pop, R&B, electronic, and rock, ...

A huge, gloriously silly and brutally effective amalgam of abandoned styles ripe for reinvigorating — rap-metal, dream-prog, ...