NPR listeners share the one song that hit them the hardest this year, and tell us why they laughed, cried, or simply couldn’t ...

The song landed its record 20th week atop the Hot 100 this week, blowing past Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" and Lil Nas ...

The six-member group recently released their single album, “Fame,” which takes them in a direction they’ve never been: “It ...

From front to back, Rivers of Nihil’s self-titled fifth collection is virtually immaculate, so choosing one song to honor ...

Data from Amazon highlights the rise of K-Pop stars like BTS and Blackpink, the dominance of true crime podcasts, and widespread curiosity about celebrity net worth and political trivia.

Pop music lyrics have transformed over the past 50 years, revealing troubling patterns that mirror society's mental health struggles.

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 ...

The research team say it could be due to more positive and complex music being used as a "form of escapism" during stressful ...

The research team say it could be due to more positive and complex music being used as a "form of escapism" during stressful ...

Pop critic Ann Powers shares a handful the albums on NPR Music's list of the best of the year, including the one album that nearly the entire team agreed on.

Joe Cocker transformed The Beatles’ With a Little Help from My Friends into a bluesy masterpiece during his legendary ...

Sometimes you don’t have enough tracks for an album, but you want to put more music out into the world than a single. The EP ...