You'll find our selection of our very favorite albums to hit the shelves in '25, the ones that'll come to mind first.

Looking back on 2025, the year was marked by perseverance and especially uncertainty–perhaps left everyone feeling fatigued ...

So your Spotify Wrapped says you have a listening age of 77. No shade—we must honor and replay the classics from decades past. But that also means, at least according to the streamer’s logic, that you ...

Variety's music writers pick 2025's best songs, from Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Dijon, Hayley Williams, ...

What makes an album of the year? Well, a few things, to be honest. It needs to be able to appeal to a wide ran ...

Featuring AI slop, streamer nonsense, lumpenproletariots, the 6 7 kid, a miniature horse, space travel, lyric-selecting slime mold, niche beefs, kiss cams, accidental eugenics, and more ...

I shared the most intimate moment I witnessed this year with 20,000 other people. We were in a basketball arena in Philadelphia to see Lorde, at a concert built around her new album, Virgin, from ...