The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

BTS' 2018 B-side "Anpanman" has surprisingly topped global charts in December 2025, proving K-pop's enduring influence. This resurgence, fuelled by fan campaigns and viral trends, highlights the genre ...

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The Oakland-based experimental artist Chrystia Cabral, a.k.a. SPELLLING, resists genre categorization in a way that allows ...

The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

HUNTR/X ’s “Golden,” from Netflix’s record-breaking animated movie KPop Demon Hunters, adds a record-tying 19th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart.

One goal is to note the obvious tension between the sobering messages heard during the quiet weeks of Advent and the waves of joyful songs, sacred and secular, that now start before Thanksgiving and ...

Sixty-eight songs and 135 scores have been included on checklists sent to members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Music Branch who will vote in the Best Original Song and Best ...

The holiday season is here, and with it comes a present for fans of end-of-year data, music and marketing: Spotify Wrapped. Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny has been named its most-played artist for a ...

Bunny hops in at No. 1 on Spotify's Global Top Artist tally for 2025, with more than 19.8 billion streams worldwide. By Lars Brandle It’s official: Bad Bunny is a beast on Spotify’s year-end Wrapped ...

(KTLA) — Pop culturally, the year tends to wrap up by early December, at least with music. Few artists want to drop anything they care about amid the holiday rush and the domination of holiday music.