Country music had a banner year in 2025. In the past almost 12 months, artists like Morgan Wallen, Jelly Roll, Luke Combs, and more have reigned in the top spot on the charts. But while a lot of songs ...

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 ...

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 ...

2025 was a strange year for rap singles, although some of the genre's biggest artists showed out with some bonafide hits. Hip-Hop in 2025 was highlighted by discourse about whether or not the genre is ...

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, ...

Rap in 2025 was all about experimentation. From the year’s first runaway hit, NBA player-turned-musician Gelo’s single “Tweaker,” to the maximalist ecclesiastics of Playboi Carti’s Music, or even in ...

From Rebecca Black to 2hollis to Rose Gray, these artists served up pop tracks too good to overlook. By Jason Lipshutz Co-Chief Content Officer 2025 was a thrilling, wide-ranging year for pop music, ...

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, ...

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

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.

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 ...

Paste Magazine is The A.V. Club‘s source for music news and lists, artist interviews, and album reviews. This week, we unveiled our AOTY list, which was topped by the likes of Nourished by Time, CMAT, ...