Before he was the guy leading stadiums full of fans through the chorus of "Sweet Caroline," Neil Diamond was a kid in Brooklyn writing song lyrics while bored in class. Diamond's expansive songwriting ...

In 2024, the song of the year was so undeniable and inescapable that we don’t even have to bother naming it. This year, the landscape is much trickier. Twenty twenty-five hasn’t produced a ...

Stream this list on Apple Music and Spotify. See The FADER's 50 best albums of 2025. As the opening track to their debut album, “Real Life” feels like ear’s way of saying “hello world.” It begins ...

Photos by Amy Sussman/Getty Images, Marleen Moise/Getty Images, Lester Cohen/Getty Images, Victor Boyko/Getty Images. The year 2025 began as a mess, and only got worse as time progressed. Everything ...

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 ...

Sixty-eight songs and 135 scores have been included on checklists sent to members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Music Branch who will vote in the Best Original Song and Best ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Pop music was not at all safe this year from the encroachments of an AI industry determined to slop-ify everything ...

Following their list of the Top 100 Albums of 2025, Rolling Stone have unveiled their Top Songs of the Year. Many of the picks carry over from the album list, but there are also a bunch of artists who ...

Rosé, Bad Bunny and Bruno Mars. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Kylie Cooper/Reuters, Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartRadio, Kevin Winter/Getty Images for the Recording Academy) ’Tis the ...

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YouTube has revealed which songs were the most popular in Korea this year! On December 3, YouTube Korea wrapped up 2025 by releasing several year-end lists that looked back at trends from the past ...