Our editorial staff picks the best songs from a year that's starting to be swarmed with big hits by big artists. The turnover ...

The past 12 months of music felt like a return to a bygone era, when things didn’t seem quite as diffuse and we had more than one monocultural event to rally around. Charli XCX’s Bratmobile and ...

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 ...

If you were hoping for the pop madness of 2024 to slow down and start making sense: good luck, babe! Because there has never, ever, been a pop year like the hot-not-pretty mess that was 2024. Week to ...