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

Here are 30 of the best pop albums of 2025, ranked by us with a little help from some of our favorite critics. –Anna Gaca & Walden Green Check out all of Pitchfork’s 2025 wrap-up coverage here. (All ...

This year’s Grammy Awards, which took place on February 2nd in Los Angeles, marked the 67th installment of the annual award show. However, the Best Dance/Electronic categories are relatively new. In ...

More change is afoot at the Grammys. The Recording Academy announced Tuesday that three new categories will be added to the awards show in 2024: best pop dance recording, best African music ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Fans emerged from pandemic lockdowns primed to hit the floor. Now online platforms are bringing fresh sounds and budding stars to bigger audiences worldwide. Fans emerged from ...

Beyoncé made music history Sunday at the 67th Grammy Awards, becoming the first Black woman to win Best Country Album for Cowboy Carter. * Kendrick Lamar, whose "Not Like Us" won Best Rap Performance, ...

I’m not sure if you’re aware, but the summer of 2024 was the summer of pop music. Sabrina Carpenter taught us about me-espresso, Chappell Roan had everyone (even VIP) learning how to spell ...

Madonna is one of the all-time greatest female artists, with some of the top hits of the '80s, '90s and beyond. Madonna Louise Ciccone, aka the Queen of Pop, is one of the most successful musical ...

The new best African music performance category will highlight “regional melodic, harmonic and rhythmic musical traditions,” according to a Recording Academy press release Kevin Winter/Getty Images ...