Variety's music writers pick 2025's best songs, from Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Dijon, Hayley Williams, Taylor Swift and more.

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

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

Less head-scratching selections include the upbeat retro-pop track “Ready for Christmas” by Tabitha Meeks, the funky “Merry Christmas Baby” by Short Stuff, a surf-rock instrumental version of “Winter ...

Jack Saunders is kicking off the countdown to this year's Christmas number one. Follow along by clicking watch live at the top of the page. The UK singles chart as we know it began in November 1952 - ...

Standout acts from our staff picks include Chappell Roan, My Chemical Romance, Charli XCX, Turnstile, Clairo, El Alfa and ...

NPR Music critics, editors and Tiny Desk producers each singled out one album they would recommend to anyone who came calling. The elite, no-skips albums of the year.

At the end of what was arguably one of the best years for the stock market in more than a decade, investors in any of the 20 top-performing mutual funds of 2024 would have earned a return that nearly ...

Discover a broad range of this year's most compelling classical recordings, including symphonic booty-shakers, mystic violin, ...

A glance at some of those chart-toppers in 2025, including Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” Sabrina Carpenter ’s “Manchild,” Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” Huntrix’s “Golden” and Taylor Swift ’s “The Fate of ...

Explore the most exciting music collaborations of 2025, featuring chart-topping hits and viral tracks that brought artists together across genres and captivated audiences worldwide.