Listen to a playlist of the year's best songs as selected by The Times' August Brown, Cerys Davies and Mikael Wood.

Lindsey Cox, host of Lindsey's Lounge, shares her top five new songs of 2025.

Revisit three rock songs that have all fallen victim to bandwagon hating, but are really quite good, if you're able to ignore ...

A huge, gloriously silly and brutally effective amalgam of abandoned styles ripe for reinvigorating — rap-metal, dream-prog, ...

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 ...