It took 50 people to make this list of 2022's 100 best songs. Why put in that much effort, when algorithmically generated playlists can give a listener what they already know they want? Because ...

Paste’s music writers nominated more than 300 tracks for the Best Songs of 2022. The 50 songs below are the ones that came out on top. They vary stylistically and lyrically, but there’s something ...

We found four of the best country hits that came out in 2022, even though few people remember them anymore. Let's change that ...

Whether you heard them on TikTok, on the radio or on a fresh slab of old-fashioned vinyl, new songs helped make sense this year of a world that seemed to need more interpretation with every passing ...

As 2022 comes to a close, music streaming giants TikTok, Billboard, Spotify, and Apple Music have released their lists of the top music of the year, with Latin artist Bad Bunny dominating all charts, ...

Polyphia’s “Playing God” is Loudwire’s pick for the 2022 Song of the Year. Guitarist Tim Henson joins us to talk about the massive track, whether 2010 Polyphia would like 2022 Polyphia, his newest ...

For decades, reggae and other styles of Jamaican music have infiltrated popular music worldwide. It’s in the DNA of everything from hip hop to punk to electronic music to reggaeton to Afrobeats and ...

Several country radio mainstays — and a couple of out-of-left-field dark horses — dominated the Billboard Country Airplay Charts in 2022, according to year-end data released by Billboard Country ...

In 2022, the destruction of gender that grandpas all over the world were worried about finally made it to the top of the pop charts. Kind of. Sam Smith and Kim Petras’s “Unholy” reached number one on ...

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If you are going just by Billboard stats, the biggest song of 2022 wasn’t even released this year — great work, Glass Animals! And that’s often how the music world works these days, with artists ...

Seventy tracks that identify, grapple with or simply dance away from the anxieties of yet another uncertain year. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Full disclosure: There can’t be a ...