In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...

I’d love to counter all that by saying 2025 was an unambiguously great year for music—but that wouldn’t be entirely true ...

Rolling Stone's list of the 25 Best Country and Americana Albums of 2025 is live and out in the world. Check out the full ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...

For all the nay-sayers and Scrooges out there, Christmas pop is an annual scourge of the high street and TV advertising from ...

An album featuring some of Tina Turner’s earliest solo recordings, dating back to 1974, has just been reissued on CD, vinyl LP, and digital formats. Good Hearted Woman features 10 songs that Turner ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...

For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

The Texas singer, who released the album Rhinestone Requiem this year, has evolved into one of the genre's ubiquitous voices ...

Solo artists commanded six of the ten Top Artist spots this year (G-Dragon, Jennie, Rosé, Lim Young Woong, NCT WISH, PLAVE), ...

Chris Stapleton and songwriter Dan Wilson wrote "White Horse" to potentially be included in a "Lone Ranger" reboot. It would ...

Buzz words and fads aside, 2025 was an underwhelming year in popular music. Albums that morphed into cultural movements like ...