APT by Rosé and Bruno Mars and tracks from KPop Demon Hunters were among the biggest hits of the year.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A collage of five musicians. This year in music had no shortage of hits, but only a handful of songs truly rose above the rest.

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Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars' Die With A Smile, released in August 2024, broke the Spotify record for the fastest song to reach 1 ...

Earlier this week, the IFPI confirmed that Taylor Swift was the biggest artist globally in 2025. She appears in the singles ranking at number 19 with The Fate of Ophelia. The full top 20 albums list ...

The first of the important year-end music industry data reports have come out for 2025, from Luminate Data and Chartmetric.

In 2024, the song of the year was so undeniable and inescapable that we don’t even have to bother naming it. This year, the landscape is much trickier. Twenty twenty-five hasn’t produced a ...

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NPR Music's list of the best 25 songs represent the upper echelon of our staff and stations' favorite discoveries from the past 12 months. For those who want to dive deeper, please check out our ...