A glance at some of those chart-toppers in 2025, including Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” Sabrina Carpenter ’s “Manchild,” Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” Huntrix’s “Golden” and Taylor Swift ’s “The Fate of ...

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

From Clipse to Metro Boomin and Cardi B, the year was full of memorable rap songs that expanded and experimented with the ...

Linkin Park's "Somewhere I Belong" reaches the top 10 on a Billboard chart for the first time, more than 20 years after its ...

NPR listeners share the one song that hit them the hardest this year, and tell us why they laughed, cried, or simply couldn’t ...

“Uncharted Territory” provides an entertaining and empirical look at how the Billboard chart has changed over the decades.

Remember the ’90s? If you do, here’s some news that might make you feel old: We’ve been in the 2000s for a quarter century now. That’s a long time, and over these past 25 years, the world has changed ...

Janelle has an extensive career as a writer, with over a decade of freelance experience, especially when it comes to pop culture. Although her first love was music, she also enjoys digging into ...

Music has the power to move us, uplift us, and even haunt us — but sometimes, the stories behind our favorite songs are far more unsettling than we realize. Songwriters and musicians find inspiration ...

It’s wild that The Beatles would make it to this list. However, the Fab Four failed to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with the release of the 1966 song “Yellow Submarine”. Some have blamed it on ...

Ivory Joe wrote and released “Empty Arms” in 1957. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard R&B chart. More than a decade later, country singer Sonny James took the song to No. 1 in the early 1970s. James ...