From long-awaited projects to breakthrough releases, here are the albums that made 2025 another solid year in music.

For all the nay-sayers and Scrooges out there, Christmas pop is an annual scourge of the high street and TV advertising from ...

Mariah Carey charts a new top 10 hit as “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” rises at the same time that “All I Want for Christmas Is You” leads the Hot 100 again.

Nigerian singer, song-writer and record producer Chukwuka Chukwuma Ekweani, popularly known as CKay, has hit a major milestone with his hit song from 2021.The jam, ‘love Nwantiti’, recently hit over a ...

Kylie, RAYE, Olivia Dean, Together For Palestine, Taylor Swift, Kpop Demon Hunters, The Pogues, WHAM!, Mariah Carey, and even ...

Our list of the best album covers of 2025, featuring Jane Remover, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Momma, Deftones, and more.

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 ...

Sombr’s father, Andy Boose, played in a number of New York bands in the 2000s, finding some notoriety with his provocative alter ego, René Risqué — and “he ­handed me the guitar,” his son says. As a ...

Every year, pop star Mariah Carey figures out a new way to reignite her signature Christmas spirit. This year, she opened her ...

Rosalía's LUX is NPR Music's No. 1 album of 2025. At the moment this fall when NPR Music's staff began discussing our picks ...

Christmas comes but once a year, and the music does too. And as much as we love the classic carols and songs that play on our speakers during the yuletide season, those tracks reg ...

‘Love Nwantiti’ is the most certified Nigerian song in the United States, achieving a massive 8x Platinum RIAA certification.