As a '90s kid who spent hours with a Walkman in the backseat of a car, an appreciation for the sonic narrative has stuck — that same patience, nuance and attention to detail can be found in my ...

Three artists enjoying their first hit can be found inside the Top 10 on this monthly list of country music's hottest songs. The September 2022 Top 40 is filled with love and heartbreak, and just a ...

As 2022 winds down, we're making sure we've got you covered with the best of the year. That includes the Best Rock + Metal Cover Songs of the last calendar year and what a year it has been! That's ...

Replay, Spotify Wrapped, and the year-end Billboard Hot 100 lists are out! This week, the top streaming service shared personalized data about the top songs, artists, and albums that each of its users ...

Bad Bunny's smash "Titi Me Preguntó" has unsurprisingly dominated a number of year-end lists, including round-ups from Esquire, Pitchfork, and Time. The tune marks Benito Martinez Ocasio's first solo ...

Words and textures drive my love of music more than beats and hooks. It isn't always a narrative that grabs me, though that surely happens. What's best is when the poetry of the words, or the story ...

Here at Stereogum, one of our fondly held listmas traditions is eschewing a staff-wide countdown of the year's best songs in favor of personal top 10 playlists of tracks that ruled our past 12 months.

Following his posts about what he took in from the worlds of movies and books this year, former president Barack Obama followed through Friday with a list of his 25 favorite songs of 2022, hitting ...

The Top 40 country songs for November 2022 includes a brand new name at No. 1. This newcomer has his first chart-topper on Taste of Country's monthly list as a result of strong streams, radio airplay ...

This year saw the return of some bona fide icons (Kendrick Lamar, SZA, Paramore), the emergence of some likely future stars (Ice Spice, Jim Legxacy, Doechii), and the success of independent artists ...

If you are going just by Billboard stats, the biggest song of 2022 wasn’t even released this year — great work, Glass Animals! And that’s often how the music world works these days, with artists ...