From tear-jerkers to mic-drops, NPR's music critics share the 2025 lyrics that made them laugh, cry and hit replay.

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

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is now the longest-running No. 1 song in U.S. chart history. The 1994 modern ...

The song landed its record 20th week atop the Hot 100 this week, blowing past Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" and Lil Nas ...

Peter Asher reflects on how he got from Peter and Gordon topping the charts with a Paul McCartney song to producing James ...

Van Dyke is best-known as the star of The Dick Van Dyke Show, the 1961-66 sitcom that forever raised the bar for situation ...

Cher is back on SNL after nearly 40 years. See why her 1987 performance was a milestone and what her 2025 return with Ariana ...

Diane Warren has an incredible songwriting career and documentary, "Relentless." She talks to USA TODAY about it all.

Musical comic and 'Las Culturistas' 'podcaster Matt Rogers debuts an exclusive Christmas plalyist for Billboard & talks about his annual holiday tour ...

Diane Warren has an incredible songwriting career and documentary, "Relentless". She talks to USA TODAY about it all.

Darlene Love will never stop thinking of her holiday classic, “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).” At this time of year, she couldn’t if she tried. “The post office, grocery store, elevator,” she says ...

There's a Christmas song for all tastes – jolly to melancholy – so corralling them into one list is not only futile, but ...