A familiar face returns to No. 1 on the Top 40 Country Songs list for August 2022, while one of the decade's most reliable hitmakers checks in at No. 2 with what is arguably his best song to date. The ...

Whether you heard them on TikTok, on the radio or on a fresh slab of old-fashioned vinyl, new songs helped make sense this year of a world that seemed to need more interpretation with every passing ...

It’s almost absurd how much good music — universally acclaimed, big-ticket, year-end contender music — came out in 2022’s first five months. It’s hard to imagine the next seven matching that pace.

As we near the end of 2022, we are looking back on a year packed with great albums. The lists of the years best, as selected by NPR Music's staff, will be out soon, but we want to know what our ...

Happy Spotify Wrapped day to all who celebrate — especially Bad Bunny, the most-streamed artist in the world for three years in a row. The streaming platform revealed Wednesday that the reggaeton ...

Inflation. Drought. Long COVID. Six months in, 2022 appears eager to match the chaos of the last few years. Yet, as always, great songs have helped get us through — some old (Kate Bush's resurrected ...

It took 50 people to make this list of 2022's 100 best songs. Why put in that much effort, when algorithmically generated playlists can give a listener what they already know they want? Because ...

For decades, reggae and other styles of Jamaican music have infiltrated popular music worldwide. It’s in the DNA of everything from hip hop to punk to electronic music to reggaeton to Afrobeats and ...

These songs are selected for their content, sheer appeal, impact, and commercial success in Nigeria After an exciting year filled with glitz and glamor in which new acts rubbed shoulders with ...

As 2022 draws to a close, it's time to look back. For some artists, looking back was already a large part of their year. The Beach Boys and Queen, for example, dug into their archives to find ...

This month's list of the Top 40 Country songs is notable for who is at the top, and for the song that jumped 27 spaces to crack the Top 5. No. 5 is from an artist that's an unknown entity to radio.

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