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

In the late 1950s and through the mid-1960s there was a flurry of corny songs, many with nonsense word refrains.

These three one-hit wonders from the 1960s don't get a lot of love nowadays. For two of them, that's entirely fair.

For Malayali audiences, Vidyasagar is not merely a composer; his music has been woven into the fabric of everyday life. His ...

With the World Darts Championship under way, we rank the walk-on songs picked by Luke Littler, Luke Humphries, Michael van ...

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Sinatra, Taylor got famous by singing the songs that she wrote, both on her own and in collaboration. To understand her we ...

"Please be great. Please be great." That's what Hugh Jackman, a veteran of both the screen and the stage, nervously whispers ...

With God’s help, Shawna Edwards returns to college after 30 years, uses technology and music to share testimony ...

Devin Bowen As the fall leaves turn different shades of yellowish-gold and each day slowly gets colder, Daniel Caesar’s new album arrives just in time for the agony and pain of the ...

"Nothin'" opens with a bouncy keyboard line before giving way to a massive guitar solo that stands up next to much of Slash ...