Our staff's favorite songs from the past year of hits and deeper cuts. On the charts, 2025 was a year that often felt like flipping TV channels to find a new episode to watch and coming across nothing ...

This year in music had no shortage of hits, but only a handful of songs truly rose above the rest. Whether they dominated the charts, took over social media or just refused to leave our heads, these ...

How do you sum up a year in music when the song of the summer was a travel commercial? If “Nothing Beats a Jet2 Holiday” proved anything, it’s that the music landscape is in unprecedented territory in ...

Here are the 11 best prog rock songs of 2025! Elsewhere in recapping the year's best in prog, Loudwire rummaged through both the best progressive metal albums and best progressive metal songs of 2025, ...

Billboard offers its take on the top country songs of 2025, including music from Cody Johnson, Tyler Childers, Lainey Wilson and more. It was another banner year for country artists in 2025. Morgan ...

With thousands of metal songs released in 2025, here's a ranking of the 13 best. Just trying to keep up with the dozens (sometimes hundreds) of new tracks dropping each week is a gauntlet. We all have ...

From tear-jerkers to mic-drops, NPR's music critics share the 2025 lyrics that made them laugh, cry and hit replay. Right about now, music critics are sharing their favorite albums of the year or ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. For much of 2025, it may have felt like music charts were devoid of hits and pop stars were slumping. But that was only ...

Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...

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 ...

NPR Music's list of the best 25 songs represent the upper echelon of our staff and stations' favorite discoveries from the past 12 months. For those who want to dive deeper, please check out our ...

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