Every week, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the previous seven days, awarding one ...

It's a week of chart milestones, as holiday songs hold down the top 24 spots on the Billboard Hot 100, Mariah Carey extends ...

From Gustav Mahler to Lady Gaga, a peek into Lindsay’s past 12 months in music. It’s time for one of my favorite annual Amplifier traditions: the songs that explain my year. Consider it a musical ...

Here are the 67 best rock and metal songs of 2024! While 67 songs feels like quite a generous crop, these standouts represent just a small, small percentage of the thousands of new tracks released ...

NPR Music's list of the best 25 songs represent the upper echelon of our staff and stations' favorite discoveries from the past 12 months. For those who want to dive deeper, please check out our ...

All but one of Apple Music’s Top 10 most-streamed songs of 2025 weren’t even released this year—a trend that will continue when bigger services Spotify and Billboard release their year-end lists—a ...