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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A collage of five musicians. This year in music had no shortage of hits, but only a handful of songs truly rose above the rest.

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 ...

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 ...

So there was no official song of summer. So let’s move beyond the biggest hits and check out the 10 songs we kept coming back to this year. The singer-songwriter who has worked with Miley Cyrus, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In addition to Moroney and Langley, there was a new class of artists all of whom experienced their first major flushes of success, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. For much of 2025, it may have felt like music charts were devoid of hits and pop stars were slumping.

This website uses tracking technologies to enable our website functionalities, to enhance user experience or to analyze performance and traffic. We may also share or sell information about your use of ...