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 ...

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

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

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

Teddy Swims makes history on this week’s Hot 100: “Lose Control,” the singer-songwriter’s soulful pop-rock anthem, spends its 92nd week on the chart, breaking the record that it shared with Glass ...

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

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

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 ...