We asked listeners to tell us about the one song they couldn't stop listening to in 2025 and why. The stories poured in -- voice memos, emails and more, with deeply moving and personal accounts of ...

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

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But in assembling the list of my favorite albums from 2025, what initially surfaced was a roundup of nine recordings by women artists. Robert Plant’s psychedelic folk gem “Saving Grace” was the only ...

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

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The End of an Era Disney+ documentary, “The Life of a Showgirl” singer shares how her breakups with Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy affected her before meeting Travis Kelce.

A huge chart record has fallen: Mariah Carey 's 1994 holiday staple "All I Want for Christmas Is You" now holds the all-time record for most weeks at No. 1, with 20. Elsewhere on the charts, Ariana ...