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

In 2025, YouTube Canada served as a national pop barometer: the most-viewed songs were a mix of international super-duos, ...

Harry Styles broke his unannounced hiatus by returning to YouTube with "Forever, Forever," a piano performance filmed during ...

Rolling Stone ranks the best Afropop songs of the year featuring Adekunle Gold, Rema, Moily, Theodora, Tyla, Davido, Bien, ...

In 2017, hip-hop became the most consumed genre in the US, and it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. Now that we're just over the halfway mark into the 2020s, hip-hop continues to dominate with ...

Sad Christmas songs help with loneliness and stress. Psychology explains mood-congruent listening and why Phoebe Bridgers fixes December.

That was how John Perry, the mayor of Everson, Washington, described what it felt like to watch as floodwater from the Nooksack River began to inundate the streets, homes and businesses of his ...

Christmastime is unofficially "Mariah Carey Season," as the pop star's ubiquitous Christmas hit, "All I want For Christmas," is the most-streamed Christmas song of all time, according to Forbes. But ...

Hey Stephen, Taylor Swift is on the late show and she has some advice for whatever comes next. The superstar served as the only guest for the Dec. 10 episode of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," ...

To make a list is immediately to begin second-guessing it. This year that’s especially true below the Top 10, in my list of 20 runner-up albums, for which I had double that many candidates I could ...

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 ...

No matter your streaming service, you can listen to NPR Music's Best Songs of 2025. We've embedded Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon Music and YouTube Music below for your convenience. Make sure to ...