According to L.A. Times pop music critic Mikael Wood, the year's finest LPs included projects by Jensen McRae, SZA and Madi ...

Born Faegheh Atashin, she’s been known as Googoosh since birth. In her new memoir, “Googoosh: A Sinful Voice,” the singer recounts her journey through a difficult childhood, a celebrated young ...

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On our just-published year-end Hot 100 chart, 11 of the top 12 songs were released before 2025, and over half of them even ...

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

Santa Can’t You Hear Me” by Kelly Clarkson and Ariana Grande debuts on Billboard's Streaming Songs chart, doubling Clarkson's ...

In the midst of all the political turmoil of 2025, there came a song that gave us hope. “Golden,” released in early July off ...

The RIAA shared their annual report, and Taylor Swift's 'The Life of a Showgirl' was the top album of the year by quite a ...

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 ...

As the group’s singer and principal songwriter, he brought a sound that broadened the boundaries of country music in the ...

The calendar has turned to December, and jingle bells have arrived at the top of the charts, led, as usual, by Mariah, Wham and Brenda Lee.