From Frank Sinatra to Avenged Sevenfold, Oct. 7 hostages describe how music helped them endure captivity, maintain sanity, ...

Olivia Rodrigo's second album GUTS features Get Him Back a standout song that proves she is one of pops most exciting artists ...

A look at some of the biggest hits written by Hardy. Regardless of your thoughts on the quality and style of his output, there’s absolutely no denying that Hardy has quickly become one of the most ...

Taylor Swift tops Billboard Hot 100 with 'The Fate of Ophelia' for the ninth week, surpassing 'Anti-Hero' as her longest-running Number One single.

Netflix's hit animated movie KPop Demon Hunters kicks off the 2026 awards season with two wins at this year's Critics Choice Awards. Golden was named best song and the movie the best animated feature ...

We’ve reached the finale of this year’s #1 hits ranking series, and we’re ending on one of the strongest Top 5s of the whole ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every year, we’re told that hip-hop is in crisis. But if you ask us, it feels like there’s too much heat to keep up with. What’s lost on the chart-watchers lamenting rap’s mainstream lull is that the ...

As the holidays approach, Christmas songs have been climbing back up the charts. As of Dec. 9, 13 of the top 20 on Billboard's Global 200 chart are holiday songs—eclipsing pop hits like Taylor Swift's ...

NPR Music's list of the best 25 songs represent the upper echelon of our staff and stations' favorite discoveries from the past 12 months. For those who want to dive deeper, please check out our ...