The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

ChatGPT may soon help iPhone and Mac users in another way, with an upcoming integration potentially allowing the AI service to manage your Apple Music playlists. OpenAI's ChatGPT already provides ...

Not long ago, artists such as Lil Nas X and Olly Alexander were ruling pop. But success has stalled as acts face industry obstacles and rising homophobia. What now? At the turn of the decade, gay male ...

Polling also suggests British young people today are about twice as likely to have a mental health problem POP music has become moodier in the past 50 years owing to the misery of modern life, ...

Popular music has become progressively darker, more stressed, and linguistically simpler over the past 50 years, tracking alongside America’s growing mental health crisis, according to research that ...

AI is becoming an even more integral part of Spotify’s platform, with the launch of a new feature that lets users enter text prompts to build personalized playlists. Prompted Playlist, as it’s known, ...

With its playlist chatbot, Spotify says you could ‘curate your next Discover Weekly, exactly the way you want it.’ With its playlist chatbot, Spotify says you could ‘curate your next Discover Weekly ...

Spotify is attempting to give users more control over the music the streaming service recommends with a new playlist feature called "Prompted Playlist." The beta feature is rolling out in New Zealand ...

Spotify announced on Wednesday that, for the first time, it’s giving users more control over the streaming service’s algorithm. That’s at least how the company is framing the launch of its new ...

Each year at NPR Music, we curate two flagship lists: The Best Albums of the Year and The Best Songs of the Year. But there's a lot more recommendations and criticism where those came from. You'll ...