This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

Some years, a handful of songs dominate our playlists, festival stages and social media trends. In others, the playing field feels a lot more level, greatness more evenly distributed. The last 12 ...

Taylor Swift recently spent a lot of time with her whole catalogue of music on the Eras Tour, and now that the nostalgic performances are over, it’s the perfect time to gauge exactly which of her ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

Ho, ho, hello! 'Tis the season to be jolly, get the garlands up on the walls, break out the winter jackets, get the hot chocolate brewing, and put that holiday playlist on "shuffle and repeat." ...

Christmas hasn't started until you've heard Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You - but it might surprise you to know she's not the highest Christmas earner. Though the 'Queen of Christmas' ...

In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...

From a song by a certified superstar that came out in the very first week of January to breakthroughs from lesser-known indie acts, here are selections from NPR Music's list of the best songs of 2025.

Akshaye Khanna’s FA9LA song from Dhurandhar has gone viral globally, with fans, including those in Balochistan, recreating ...

That's not to suggest that "Old Town Road" and "A Bar Song" are the two biggest hits of all time. They're merely beneficiaries of a streaming landscape in which listeners are continually fed the same ...

Mariah Carey has lodged a record-tying 19th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 as “All I Want for Christmas Is You” rides the holiday wave back to the top of the charts. The recurrent tune surges ...