This list of NPR Music's best songs of 2023 looks unlike any we've ever made before. It's not just the number of songs that has changed. There are no rankings here — in fact, the 123 songs below ...

It wasn’t just Barbie that made 2023 all about girl power. From chart-leading ladies SZA and Miley Cyrus to “Barbie” soundtrack standout Billie Eilish to blockbuster-tour titans Beyoncé and Taylor ...

Former President Barack Obama is giving us insight into the songs that made it onto his playlists this year. Obama released his favorite music of 2023 on his social media accounts on Friday and wrote, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Summer isn’t a season. It’s a state of mind. Those roughly 100 days between Memorial Day and Labor Day turn you upside down. Summer, it’s been said, is like a merry-go-round. One ...

Seventy-one tracks that asked big questions, found new kinship between genres and helped us see the good in Ken. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Pareles The album may be imperiled ...

Jason Lamphier is a senior editor at Entertainment Weekly who covers news and music. Before joining EW, he was an editor at The New York Observer, Out, and Interview. Joey Nolfi is a senior writer at ...

Where do songs come from? For now, they come from us — from our needs, our wants, our regrets, our scorn. Next year, they might come from a box brought to near-sentience by all the songs that came ...