How do you sum up a year in music when the song of the summer was a travel commercial? If “Nothing Beats a Jet2 Holiday” proved anything, it’s that the music landscape is in unprecedented territory in ...

Our staff's favorite songs from the past year of hits and deeper cuts. On the charts, 2025 was a year that often felt like flipping TV channels to find a new episode to watch and coming across nothing ...

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This year’s outstanding tracks – from post-punk rap to indie-disco and operatic pop – as voted for by 30 Guardian music writers 20 Over a pared-back post-punk beat, Simz details her life’s “genius ...

Stuck between the '70s and '90s, literally and figuratively, the '80s reached its midpoint in a melting pot of styles: rock, pop, metal, new wave, alternative, soul, dance and more. As selected by the ...

As we put this list together, we thought about the rise of a new pop class, the return of some longtime favorites, regional rap bangers, country crossovers, the year of sexy drill, and more. All the ...

Artificial intelligence has become the dominant disrupter to music creation and distribution. And it’s only getting started. Hosted by Jon Caramanica. Produced by Pedro Rafael Rosado. Whether you know ...

Disco is a music genre and a subculture born out of a dance floor and pioneered by Black musicians, DJs and producers in the 1970s and early 1980s. The word disco comes from the Italian discoteca, ...

From fabled singer-songwriter to '80s and '90s hitmaker, John Anderson has done it all in country music. He helped build the landscape of the genre, literally: When Anderson first moved from his home ...

The only thing better than falling in love is listening to love songs while you swoon. And there’s no one better to listen to in these moments than Taylor Swift, an artist who's made a career out of ...