Each year at NPR Music, we curate two flagship lists: The Best Albums of the Year and The Best Songs of the Year. But there's a lot more recommendations and criticism where those came from. You'll ...

There might not have been an Eras Tour to break billion-dollar records, but 2025 still produced stadium spectacles, innovative arena productions and impressive club performances from a slew of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 2025 will go down as the year of Morgan Wallen, not just in country music, but across the board, as Billboard declared him the ...

The first of the important year-end music industry data reports have come out for 2025, from Luminate Data and Chartmetric. Luminate’s report confirms that growth in music streaming in the U.S. is ...

From a song by a certified superstar that came out in the very first week of January to breakthroughs from lesser-known indie acts, here are selections from NPR Music's list of the best songs of 2025.

A tell-all guide to the 2025 American Music Awards, aka the AMAs.

On the Friday, December 19 2025, episode of The Excerpt podcast: In a music year dominated by artists like Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift, perhaps the most talked about “artists” were built by AI. How is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As always, Taylor Swift dominated the headlines in 2025, as she celebrated two major life-changing events and yet another ...

Few formats drive fan engagement like a great music video. That was true in 2025 and it’ll be true in 2026, too. Looking at Warner Music Group’s top-performing videos of 2025 offers insight into both ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. No one needs reminding that 2025 began in an L.A. aflame. Musicians didn’t escape the fires, especially in ...

Tell-alls, streaming service deep-dives, personal essays, and artist mythologies defined 2025’s printed year in music. Paste has picked its 10 favorite music books from the last 12 months, but I’d ...

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 ...