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As the year comes to an end, we are wading deep into list season. Now that we’ve talked about the best albums, songs, debuts, and EPs of 2025, it’s time to get even more granular and pay tribute to a ...

Spotify Wrapped has come and gone, so we all know what we listened to the most this year — but which albums were actually the best releases of 2025? When Lily Allen announced her first album in seven ...

The last 12 months have screamed by like a speeding comet, but not before delivering a staggering payload of genuinely great rock'n'roll. From old-stagers to returning cult heroes to prog titans and ...

This year in country music was all about artists discovering ways to innovate old forms and traditions. In some cases, like Eric Church’s Evangeline vs. the Machine and Carter Faith’s stunning debut ...

At the moment this fall when NPR Music's staff began discussing our picks for the best albums of 2025, the mere existence of the record we'd eventually name our No. 1 – in a landslide, it must be said ...

The holiday season doesn’t truly begin until you put on a Christmas album. Whether it’s jazzy and nostalgic or loud and unapologetically pop, everyone has an album that they’ll enjoy. Some albums fade ...