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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps a wise prophet named Addison Rae sums it up best: “So I put my headphones on / Listen to my favorite song.” And, boy, ...

In the midst of all the political turmoil of 2025, there came a song that gave us hope. “Golden,” released in early July off ...

NPR Music critics, editors and Tiny Desk producers each singled out one album they would recommend to anyone who came calling ...

I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...