This list of NPR Music's best songs of 2023 looks unlike any we've ever made before. It's not just the number of songs that has changed. There are no rankings here — in fact, the 123 songs below ...

Former President Barack Obama is giving us insight into the songs that made it onto his playlists this year. Obama released his favorite music of 2023 on his social media accounts on Friday and wrote, ...

Here are the 30 best rock and metal songs of 2023. New music was everywhere this year. With a couple thousand albums falling under the rock/metal/punk/etc. umbrella, we're talking about well over ...

It's pretty impossible to keep up with all the amazing tracks that drop in any given year — but that didn't stop us from trying. On this edition of All Songs Considered, host Robin Hilton sits down ...

Where do songs come from? For now, they come from us — from our needs, our wants, our regrets, our scorn. Next year, they might come from a box brought to near-sentience by all the songs that came ...

Here are the best rock and metal albums and songs of 2023. Perhaps the most plentiful year in new music yet, 2023 saw the release of a couple thousand albums and a few thousand singles all falling ...

Seventy-one tracks that asked big questions, found new kinship between genres and helped us see the good in Ken. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Pareles The album may be imperiled ...