From tongue-in-check antics poking fun at the music industry to heartfelt odes to salsa, here's what we loved this year.

Taylor Swift tops Genius as most-searched artist, with ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ leading albums and ‘Wood’ ranking among top ...

Mammoth 's "The End" is Loudwire's No. 1 rock song of 2025. It's the title track from Mammoth's third album and was also the ...

"End of You," the powerhouse collaboration between Poppy, Amy Lee and Courtney LaPlante is Loudwire's Best Metal Song of the ...

A huge, gloriously silly and brutally effective amalgam of abandoned styles ripe for reinvigorating — rap-metal, dream-prog, ...

The best songs of 2025, as picked by the editors and contributors of The FADER. Featuring "WHIM WHAMIEE," Dijon's "Baby," ...

Here are Pitchfork’s 40 best rap songs of 2025. Check out all of Pitchfork’s 2025 wrap-up coverage here. When Wham ( Lil Baby ...

Sleep Token ’s single Caramel is the best song of 2025, according to The New York Times. In a new piece put together by ...

Earlier this month, the Paste team unveiled its list of the 50 best albums of 2025. Thank you for reading it and for not ...

In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...