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.

Harrison and Boyd married on Jan. 21, 1966. Throughout their marriage, she was the notable inspiration for many of The Beatles' classic love songs, including: "I Need You", "If I Needed Someone", ...

Late co-founder always felt that collaborating was like “two people painting a picture on the same canvas.” But that didn’t stop him succeeding ...

From Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney to “Shōgun” star Anna Sawai as Yoko Ono, here’s who’s playing who in the four ...

Hundreds, if not thousands, of songs from the last 60-plus years have paid homage to The Beatles. These four are some of the best.

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 ...

Paul McCartney’s RAM was hated by critics on release, even criticized by fellow Beatles, before being reevaluated as a solo masterpiece.

The first solo album in three years from the New York rapper (and his first release since his twin 2023 stunners, the Kenny Segal collab Maps, which landed on our 2023 year-end list, and Armand Hammer ...

We asked and you answered. Earlier this month, we opened the polls and invited All Songs Considered's listeners to tell us their top 5 records of the year. We tabulated all of the ballots, determined ...