Variety's music writers pick 2025's best songs, from Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Dijon, Hayley Williams, Taylor Swift and more.

From timeless classics like "Nobody Does It Better" to modern sensations like "Skyfall," these iconic Bond songs have the ...

Roasting Reading former President Barack Obama’s annual list of his favorite movies, books, and songs. This year’s selection ...

As the year nears its end, Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn has offered a playlist and reflections on the music that he ...

Which songs and genres defined the first quarter of the 21st century? In what ways have new technologies changed the way we ...

Buttons,' from the Pussycat Dolls’s 2005 debut album ‘PCD,’ has officially surpassed one billion views on YouTube.

NPR listeners share the one song that hit them the hardest this year, and tell us why they laughed, cried, or simply couldn’t ...

It was a particularly emotional episode as the final marked Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman’s final time presenting the ...

Lorde, Annahstasia, Rosalia, Brandon Lake, Hayley Williams, Clipse, Pulp, London Suede, Samia all released great albums in 2025.

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 ...