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 ...

A playlist of 103 songs from our three critics’ lists to experience however you wish. By Lindsay Zoladz Here at The Amplifier, we like to keep our playlists relatively brief, like bite-sized musical ...

Our special coverage of the year in music continues with a look at the best songs of 2024, featuring Clairo, Tinashe, Chief Keef, Laura Marling and more. See NPR Music's complete list of the 124 best ...

History doesn't repeat, but its guitars sure do chime. However, to call it a down year for shoegaze would require strenuous amounts of cynicism and incuriosity. Every week, I felt like I stumbled into ...

Songs show up everywhere these days: appended to sports highlights and TikToks, piped into political rallies and Paneras, interpolated during sermons. This ubiquity often trivializes music, but it ...

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 ...

From a scathing diss track-turned-international banger to a duet featuring two pop queens to an R&B groove bursting with '90s nostalgia, THR’s music editor picks his favorite bops of the year. By ...

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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 ...