Variety's music writers pick 2025's best songs, from Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Dijon, Hayley Williams, Taylor Swift and more.

A glance at some of those chart-toppers in 2025, including Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” Sabrina Carpenter ’s “Manchild,” Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” Huntrix’s “Golden” and Taylor Swift ’s “The Fate of ...

The biggest music story of 2025 remains, as it has for many years, the very fact of how music is discovered, as streaming monoliths and social-media algorithms continually overtake what we hear and ...

Here are the 51 best rock and metal songs of 2025! We know you all have a long, long list of your favorites from this year, whether it's in a playlist curated by our streaming overlords and ones ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Pop music was not at all safe this year from the encroachments of an AI industry determined to slop-ify everything ...