Listen to a playlist of the year's best songs as selected by The Times' August Brown, Cerys Davies and Mikael Wood.

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Before the widespread adoption of music streaming services like Spotify and YouTube Music, we primarily accessed music by downloading it to our devices from websites ...

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

We're bringing back our listener poll to help stick a fork in 2025 and make sense of all the amazing music that came out. So.

This list of NPR Music's best songs of 2023 looks unlike any we've ever made before. It's not just the number of songs that has changed. There are no rankings here — in fact, the 123 songs below ...

As songs created by artificial intelligence become more common, the year’s best albums—from Rosalía, Geese, Wednesday and ...

These are the best country songs of the last 25 years. There was no strict rule mandating one song per artist, but — with one exception — it ended up that way. The top songs of the 2000s are a diverse ...

Dolly Parton has a music catalog spanning more than 60 years that has churned out chart-topping country classics and timeless hits that have grandparents and grandkids singing along. However, only one ...