From the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack to career milestones for the likes of G-DRAGON, SEVENTEEN, JENNIE, MARK, NMIXX and more, enjoy the K-pop scene's best records. In 2025, K-pop albums became ...

Sam Fender, PinkPantheress and more elevated British and Irish music in 2025. In mid 2024, there was talk that the U.K. wasn’t producing future stars nearly fast enough and that its reputation as a ...

Rosalía made an album invoking the saints, Lily Allen took us on a tragicomic trip through her domestic hell, Lady Gaga found the sweet spot between artpop and arena-ready funk, and Bad Bunny was just ...

DJ Elmoe knocked our socks off with footwork that still sounds as fresh as the first day we heard the style. Lindstrøm returned with the umpteenth coming of space disco and got us starry-eyed for the ...

The soundtrack of the Netflix hit animation "KPop Demon Hunters" has been named the world's second-most streamed album of the year on Spotify, the music platform said in its annual Wrapped 2025 report ...

The most compelling releases of the year reimagined hip-hop tracks, deep-rooted collaborations and longstanding inspirations. By Hank Shteamer In a year that saw the deaths of two leading drummers, ...

As we usually do around the holidays, we’re asking artists about their favorite albums of the year. Here we’ve got a Top 10 list from London band Ulrika Spacek, whose fourth album, EXPO, is due out in ...

In 2025, K-pop albums became vehicles for artistic clarity-structured spaces where artists pursued cohesive creative visions shaped by pacing, intention and conceptual focus. Many of the year's ...

Recently, in casual conversations, I’ve been asked for my opinion about the October report that “No Rap Songs Are in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the First Time Since 1990” more so than my ...

Below the surface of the mainstream, music had a wonderful year—making the task of whittling down 2025’s best albums to a top-10 list maddeningly difficult—though you’d hardly know it from looking at ...