Counting down some personal favorites, including a major rap tour, the sublime bridge in a breakup song and Timothée Chalamet ...

Adam Albums of the Year Honorable Mentions: clipping. – Dead Channel Sky; Cheekface – Middle Spoon; Vulfpeck – Clarity of Cal ...

Music in 2025 has had it all, from breakout new artists and big stars continuing to top the charts, to AI-generated artists ...

Pooh Shiesty's post-prison release, "FDO," storms to a No. 1 debut on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for the rapper's first champ and the Hot 100's top 25.

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

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

Our favorite albums of the year include a new release from Chance the Rapper and the final album engineered by Steve Albini.

This year's best albums include Bad Bunny's "Debí Tirar Más Fotos," Lily Allen's "West End Girl," and Addison Rae's ...

NPR named its best songs of 2025 last week, which may be a bit premature because what if someone releases an absolute banger on Christmas Day? But one thing they did get absolutely right is naming ...

Every year, we’re told that hip-hop is in crisis. But if you ask us, it feels like there’s too much heat to keep up with. What’s lost on the chart-watchers lamenting rap’s mainstream lull is that the ...

Welcome to the sound of public radio in 2025. Our list of the best 125 songs of the year was curated by more than 60 writers and DJs across the NPR Music Network, and runs the gamut of sounds, scenes ...

The publication shared the list earlier this week and it features a total of 50 tracks broken up into two categories. The first category, rounded up by writer Jon Caramanica, has "Caramel" from Sleep ...