NPR Music critics reflect on the lyrics that captured the year's mood, sparked emotions and stayed with them long after the music stopped. Lyrics of a song can reach us in ways that no other speech ...

90 tracks! Five hours! Remix the year in pop however you wish. By Lindsay Zoladz The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

Our staff's favorite songs from the past year of hits and deeper cuts. On the charts, 2025 was a year that often felt like flipping TV channels to find a new episode to watch and coming across nothing ...

Gracie Abrams‘ “That’s So True” is getting renewed attention at the end of 2025. The song, originally released on the 26-year-old singer’s The Secret of Us deluxe edition back in November of 2024, is ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

With more than 100 million equivalent album sales, 17 Latin Grammys and six Grammys under his belt -- including one for Album of the Year -- Bad Bunny has a claim for the title of "world's biggest pop ...