From tear-jerkers to mic-drops, NPR's music critics share the 2025 lyrics that made them laugh, cry and hit replay.

NPR listeners share the one song that hit them the hardest this year, and tell us why they laughed, cried, or simply couldn’t ...

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is now the longest-running No. 1 song in U.S. chart history. The 1994 modern ...

“Is It a Crime” and “Burning Blue” appear on Mariah The Scientist’s Hearts Sold Separately album, which was released in August. The set debuted at No. 1 on the Top R&B Albums chart and yielded the ...

We know Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" is inescapable at the holidays. Now the sprightly song has broken a ...

Award-winning production duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, alongside 100 Billion Meals cofounder Tony Robbins, are helming a new ...

Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' has broken the record for most weeks spent at No. 1, logging 20 weeks on the ...

Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1990s, I listened to soul singer-turned-R&B sex symbol Teddy Pendergrass and other artists who defined the Sound of Philadelphia. Now, as a professor of ethnic ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It arrived in 2024. And it never left. Rosé and Bruno Mars’ massively popular, Grammy-nominated “APT.” topped Apple Music’s global song chart in 2025 as the giant music streamer ...

In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...