A glance at some of those chart-toppers in 2025, including Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” Sabrina Carpenter ’s “Manchild,” Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” Huntrix’s “Golden” and Taylor Swift ’s “The Fate of ...

Listen to a playlist of the year's best songs as selected by The Times' August Brown, Cerys Davies and Mikael Wood.

On our just-published year-end Hot 100 chart, 11 of the top 12 songs were released before 2025, and over half of them even ...

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

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars had the biggest pop hit of 2025 with "Die With A Smile," their duet featured on Gaga's Grammy-nominated album MAYHEM that dropped in March. Rising artist Alex Warren followed ...

There's a Christmas song for all tastes – jolly to melancholy – so corralling them into one list is not only futile, but ...

“Untouched” has one of the catchiest hooks in pop music history. From the first note, the song grabs your attention and sticks with you. The chorus is upbeat, powerful, and unforgettable. It’s the ...

Madonna is one of the all-time greatest female artists, with some of the top hits of the '80s, '90s and beyond. Madonna Louise Ciccone, aka the Queen of Pop, is one of the most successful musical ...

A huge, gloriously silly and brutally effective amalgam of abandoned styles ripe for reinvigorating — rap-metal, dream-prog, ...