The year 2025 has been a whirlwind year for music, with songs from every genre going viral and dominating playlists around the world. From pop chart-toppers to underground experiments, artists have ...

The best recordings of 2025 — in pop, rap, jazz, country and more — felt deeper than first impressions may have let on. My favorite albums of 2025 weren’t exactly magic tricks, but you had to listen ...

Few formats drive fan engagement like a great music video. That was true in 2025 and it’ll be true in 2026, too. Looking at Warner Music Group’s top-performing videos of 2025 offers insight into both ...

The first of the important year-end music industry data reports have come out for 2025, from Luminate Data and Chartmetric. Luminate’s report confirms that growth in music streaming in the U.S. is ...

If there's one question that professional music lovers hear most often, it's some variation on: "Heard any good albums lately?" We always have, of course, but when it came time to highlight the cream ...

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 ...

If K-pop wasn’t already a powerhouse cornerstone of the music industry before, 2025 saw yet another explosion of interest in the genre thanks to the larger-than-life success of Kpop Demon Hunters. Now ...

Bad Bunny is finishing up the year with more milestones under his belt, becoming Spotify Wrapped‘s top global artist of 2025. The streaming service unveiled its annual Wrapped campaign early Wednesday ...

See our editorial staff's updating list for the greatest artists from the past year of pop stardom, rolling out throughout January. By Andrew Unterberger For the last four years, we’ve counted down ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hannah Abraham covers entertainment, culture and business. The 2025 Melon Music Awards delivered a statement about K-pop’s ...

The genre peaked in terms of global awareness with “KPop Demon Hunters,” while the industry’s most promising new act was mired in a legal morass. By Jon Caramanica This year, from a distance, the ...

The top country albums of 2025 are so different from each other that it seems like the only thing they have in common is that they fall under the same umbrella genre. But there is one thing these ...