Listen to 68 tracks that made major statements, boosted big beefs, propelled up-and-comers and soundtracked the party this year. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Pareles Here’s a ...

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 ...

Trent Reznor's favorite song of 2024 wasn't a rock or metal song, but it was one of the biggest songs of the year. Despite fronting one of the biggest industrial bands of all time, Reznor appreciates ...

How many ways can you praise the music of 2024? Well, as the late great Quincy Jones would say, find 100 ways, because it was a year of surprises all over the music map. It was an abundant year to go ...

In December 2024, Gene Simmons opined, quite matter-of-factly, that rock was dead. The artists comprising our Top 30 Rock Songs of 2024 would like a word. As the year draws to a close, UCR looks back ...

What's on your best K-pop songs of 2024 list? Maybe you followed the ongoing girl group renaissance to new music from NMIXX and aespa, with a sprinkle of ILLIT's debut. Maybe you embraced exciting ...

2024 was a historic year for music, with Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” tying Lil Nas X’s record for longest-running Billboard Hot 100 No. 1. Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” put the recording ...

See The FADER's top 50 albums of 2024. There is a great run of four songs in the middle of this list. It comprises a blissful track from Japanese experimentalist Hakushi Hasegawa, a burst of blown-out ...

So when we say “best songs,” we mean the ones that rose to the top of the zeitgeist; quality obviously matters, but so does cultural impact. And while it was, frankly, an average year for albums, 2024 ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. The defining songs of 2024 ran the gamut in every conceivable way: from vicious diss tracks to sapphic ...