YouTube Shorts and TikToks are often set to electronic dance music with rap roots that’s become the unconscious hum of ...

It’s Bad Bunny’s first No. 1 on the all-genre Hot 100 as a lead artist. Prior to this, he’d topped Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart numerous times but only ever topped the Hot 100 once as a ...

Welcome to New Music Friday, NPR Music's podcast dedicated to sharing the best albums out each week. We listen to dozens of new releases in advance, identify the ones we think you need to hear, and ...

Rumors of MTV’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. In October, it was announced that many of MTV’s subchannels in Europe and South America would be discontinued at the end of 2025. But the social ...

With thousands of metal songs released in 2025, here's a ranking of the 13 best. Just trying to keep up with the dozens (sometimes hundreds) of new tracks dropping each week is a gauntlet. We all have ...

This year in music had no shortage of hits, but only a handful of songs truly rose above the rest. Whether they dominated the charts, took over social media or just refused to leave our heads, these ...

When artists join forces on a track, the impact can be career-defining—expanding their reach, introducing them to new audiences, and reshaping music conversations. At its best, music collaborations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even the artists who stuck to more familiar themes did so in ways that struck listeners as entirely new. When it comes to ...

Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...

Tell-alls, streaming service deep-dives, personal essays, and artist mythologies defined 2025’s printed year in music. Paste has picked its 10 favorite music books from the last 12 months, but I’d ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

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