Apple Music shared its year-end list of the platform’s top music of 2025, and the most-streamed songs were primarily from 2024. Today (December 3) is Spotify’s turn, as Spotify Wrapped is out now.

In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...

To some, the use of Max Richter’s best-known song at the end of Hamnet is like a cheat code to get audiences crying. To the composer himself, it’s something else entirely. Photo: Agata ...

In addition to announcing a massive 2026 tour this morning (Nov. 24), Guns N' Roses revealed the names of two upcoming new songs that will be out in 2025. Guns will head back to Mexico and South ...

Mr. Schmemann, an Opinion writer, is a former Moscow bureau chief of The Times. Efforts to halt the war in Ukraine, now approaching its fourth year, have all failed. The Trump administration is now ...

The "Wicked: For Good" soundtrack is finally here, and with it comes the official cast recordings of two songs that are brand new to the musical. "No Place Like Home," sung by Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba ...

We live in interesting times. If you look at the news headlines every day, you might start to think that the end of the world is near. That the sky is falling. That world leaders truly don’t mind if ...

Kelsea Ballerini’s new viral song, "I Sit in Parks," is haunting. It’s not another breakup anthem or empowerment track. It’s a confession — an elegy for something missing, something she only realized ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Ruthie Ann Miles, Shuler Hensley and Micaela Diamond lead a dream-team cast in Ethan Lipton’s musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s “The Skin of Our Teeth.” Micaela Diamond, ...

The song has been streamed over 3 million times in under a month. A song created through artificial intelligence has made history topping a Billboard country music chart, but it has also sent ...