From the last hours of December to the top of 2025, here are 10 foolproof drops for the last and first party of the year.

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.

Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on ...

It feels like this election year — and this year in general — is one that we’re all trying desperately to escape from. And there’s no better way of escaping your current reality than with a little bit ...

Christmas is a very special time of year for ... with us throughout adulthood. Previously, I touched on the worst Christmas songs ever written, so why not try my hand at the best?

Other songs that top the Hot Latin Songs year-end chart ... weeks that the titles appeared on a respective chart during the tracking year. Any activity registered before or after a title’s ...

Continuing on with list season, we’re pivoting our focus to the best cover songs of the year. We opted to limit the ranking to one entry per project, as something like Thanks to I Saw the TV ...

A full 25 percent of the Top 40 songs from this year are by artists who've never appeared on charts and year-end lists previously. Several — like Zach Top and Ella Langley — give hope for ...

The top 10 artists of the year charted a combined 190 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 and 54 albums on the Billboard 200 during the 2024 eligibility period. By Keith Caulfield Taylor Swift leads ...

There were albums that grabbed me—Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet,” for one—but during a year ... song is quintessential Future, stubbornly entrenched in the flippant mode he knows ...