Whether you heard them on TikTok, on the radio or on a fresh slab of old-fashioned vinyl, new songs helped make sense this year of a world that seemed to need more interpretation with every passing ...

All year, our friends at NPR Music sift through a nonstop deluge of new songs. Now the sifting for 2022 at least has come to an end, and they've made a list of their top 100 songs of the year. To ...

Words and textures drive my love of music more than beats and hooks. It isn't always a narrative that grabs me, though that surely happens. What's best is when the poetry of the words, or the story ...

Seventy tracks that identify, grapple with or simply dance away from the anxieties of yet another uncertain year. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Full disclosure: There can’t be a ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Music streaming platform Spotify this week distributed a personalized analysis of each user’s yearly listening habits, highlighting those tunes you couldn’t stop jamming to as ...

This year, Apple’s music replay feature is more akin to Spotify’s year-end Wrapped roundup, including a highlight reel. Another year is almost finished and with fewer than four weeks left in 2022, ...

Bad Bunny led a takeover, not a crossover, in a year that featured standout releases from Rosalía, Rauw Alejandro, iLe, Carla Morrison and Lucrecia Dalt. By Jon Pareles Pop in 2022 was unequivocally ...

In the year 2022, we found a new "Bad Habit," tip-tip-tipped across hardwood floors, and realized we weren't the only ones up half the night worrying everyone hates us. And it was all thanks to the ...

What made a great song in 2022? Was it an irresistible beat and a sense of humor? An introspective, bittersweet dream? An absolute dance floor banger? Was it lo-fi, high-res, loud, soft, twangy, poppy ...