Counting down some personal favorites, including a major rap tour, the sublime bridge in a breakup song and Timothée Chalamet ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. De Los recently did a team huddle to determine our personal list of best albums, as well as our favorite songs ...

90 tracks! Five hours! Remix the year in pop however you wish. By Lindsay Zoladz The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m back ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter we’ll be doing 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, and I’ll be ranking every ...

Christmastime is unofficially "Mariah Carey Season," as the pop star's ubiquitous Christmas hit, "All I want For Christmas," is the most-streamed Christmas song of all time, according to Forbes. But ...

Every year, we’re told that hip-hop is in crisis. But if you ask us, it feels like there’s too much heat to keep up with. What’s lost on the chart-watchers lamenting rap’s mainstream lull is that the ...

Sleep Token have beaten the likes of Drake, Lady Gaga and Sabrina Carpenter to The New York Times' Best Song of 2025. The prestigious American publication has unveiled its list of 48 tracks of the ...

To make a list is immediately to begin second-guessing it. This year that’s especially true below the Top 10, in my list of 20 runner-up albums, for which I had double that many candidates I could ...

The English singer-songwriter, a best song Critics Choice Award nominee for the "big rock song" he wrote with John Mayer and Blake Slatkin, goes deep with The Hollywood Reporter about his odds-defying ...

The publication shared the list earlier this week and it features a total of 50 tracks broken up into two categories. The first category, rounded up by writer Jon Caramanica, has "Caramel" from Sleep ...

Stream this list on Apple Music and Spotify. See The FADER's 50 best albums of 2025. As the opening track to their debut album, “Real Life” feels like ear’s way of saying “hello world.” It begins ...