Our staff's favorite albums from the year that was. Is pop now officially an albums-driven genre? The year 2025 made a strong argument for the answer being “yes.” Acclaimed sets from rising stars like ...

Variety's music writers pick 2025's best albums, including Lily Allen, Lady Gaga, Rosalía, Bad Bunny, Clipse, Brandi Carlile, ...

This year was jam-packed with albums. The 2025 music scene saw the highly anticipated return of musicians, from the likes of Lorde and Blood Orange, to a rock revival led by the band Geese. One ...

Between pop, rock, country, and more, this year in music brought something for everyone. These are the 25 songs you need on ...

Check out the red-carpet looks at Variety's Hitmakers event for Sabrina Carpenter, the "Golden" singers, Tate McRae, Role ...

Variety’s 9th Annual Hitmakers Brunch, celebrating the collaborators behind the year’s most popular songs, was held in Los ...

The Associated Press has announced its top 10 albums of the year, showcasing a diverse range of artists. Hayley Williams shines with “Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party,” a bold ...

On our just-published year-end Hot 100 chart, 11 of the top 12 songs were released before 2025, and over half of them even ...

These artists put out indelible introductory albums this year – don’t sleep on them. Here are NME’s 20 best debut albums of ...

After Perry's disaster girlboss space ride earlier this year, it makes sense that she'd close out the year by performing for ...

Though a recession hasn’t officially hit the U.S., it still sounds like it could be coming, so keep storing up those ...

Sure, we were only 10 days into 2025, but just listen to Lambrini Girls’ blistering, relentlessly fun, thorny, in-your-face ...