For all the nay-sayers and Scrooges out there, Christmas pop is an annual scourge of the high street and TV advertising from ...

An all-time classic. By and large, most Christmas music these days is pretty commercial, and honestly, forgettable. But over the years, legends like Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson have put out some ...

Singer and songwriter whose hits with his band the Mavericks included the gloriously cheerful Dance the Night Away ...

Pentatonix earns its first Adult Contemporary No. 1, among eight top 10s — all holiday songs. The quintet previously reached ...

According to Ringo Starr, George Harrison never joined the All-Star Band because he was a little too expensive.

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If we needed any more proof that the album isn't dead, 2025 was it. On this episode, Stephen Thompson is joined by Ann Powers ...

The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

Bob Mould, Stereolab, and Jeff Tweedy among them — are essential architects of the indie sound, with careers that go back ...

All of which is to say that if you were looking for chart-topping hits this year, you might’ve been disappointed, but if you were looking for good hip-hop music, 2025 was one of the best years to be a ...

Discover a broad range of this year's most compelling classical recordings, including symphonic booty-shakers, mystic violin, ...

Three rock albums made Billboard 's list of the 50 Best Albums of 2025 and one of them actually cracked the Top 10.