Among thousands of new metal songs that came out in 2025, these 13 have been on maximum repeat.

Rob Sheffield counts down his 25 favorite songs of 2025, including hits by Taylor Swift, Addison Rae, Kehlani, MJ Lenderman ...

Variety's music writers pick 2025's best songs, from Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Dijon, Hayley Williams, ...

One of the best songs from one of the best metal albums of 2025. No Loss, No Love veered from savagely heavy, pick-scraped ...

Every year, we’re told that hip-hop is in crisis. But if you ask us, it feels like there’s too much heat to keep up with. What’s lost on the chart-watchers lamenting rap’s mainstream lull is that the ...

Although he doesn't write a lot of his own music, these four songs show Blake Shelton has talent as a songwriter.

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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 ...

UCR's list of Top 25 Rock Songs of 2025 shows that the genre remains anything but predictable. There are a trio of duets, including one that was tossed off in less than a month and another that was a ...

The top country songs of 2025 prove that the next generation has arrived, and we're not just talking about the artists. Important songs from this year broke on streaming platforms or social media ...

But in assembling the list of my favorite albums from 2025, what initially surfaced was a roundup of nine recordings by women artists. Robert Plant’s psychedelic folk gem “Saving Grace” was the only ...

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 ...