The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

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

As the year draws to a close, BD Life reflects on some of the milestones in the music industry in 2025.Cultural resurgenceIn an exclusive interview with the BDLife a year ago, singer-songwriter, ...

JOHNNY CASH was an American singer and songwriter who become one of the most important, influential, and respected artists in ...

Connie Francis’ 1962 ballad finds a new generation of fans as TikTok crowns it the platform’s top global song of the year.

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 ...

Zach Top is slated to perform his song "Guitar" at the 2025 CMA Awards, and the lyrics describe his lifelong fascination with music. Zach Top is a 28-year-old country singer-songwriter and guitarist.

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade's end, ...

Slang, a term for the informal, non-standard lingo used in social settings, doesn't originate in a vacuum. The invented words we casually throw around come from the culture around us, particularly the ...

The chorus of "Rocky Top" is always sung at Tennessee games, but what about the rest of the song? For Lady Vols basketball, the results were mixed. Kim Caldwell on the importance of taking Lady Vols ...

If there’s anything that defines music in the 21st century, it’s constant change. We live in an era when your next favorite song could come from anywhere — all over the stylistic map, all over the ...