Lorde, Annahstasia, Rosalia, Brandon Lake, Hayley Williams, Clipse, Pulp, London Suede, Samia all released great albums in 2025.

From a song by a certified superstar that came out in the very first week of January to breakthroughs from lesser-known indie acts, here are selections from NPR Music's list of the best songs of 2025.

Variety's music writers pick 2025's best songs, from Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Dijon, Hayley Williams, Taylor Swift and more.

Taylor Swift makes Billboard history as The Life of a Showgirl spends 10 weeks at No. 1, highlighting rare album longevity ...

When Adele shared a photo of her dramatic weight loss in 2020, some fans worried that she’d taken drastic measures. But the British singer has been open about what she did — and what she didn't do —to ...

Donna Summer, the undisputed Queen of Disco, shocked the music world with her hidden talent for crafting timeless hits. Her ...

Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl hits double-digit weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as the set collects ...

HE may come across as a cringeworthy “cool dad”, but there is no denying the commercial power of Barack Obama’s annual list ...

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 ...

From Clipse to Metro Boomin and Cardi B, the year was full of memorable rap songs that expanded and experimented with the ...

Making a list of good things that happened in 2025 may feel like a very short exercise…however despite the world being on ...

GQ columnist Chris Black lived another 12 months and experienced another 12,000 things. Then, because the universe demanded ...