Hit Songs Deconstructed has released its 2025 Staying Power report. By Gary Trust As analyzed by Billboard in 2025, songs are increasingly lasting in the upper reaches of the Billboard Hot 100.

Here are the 31 best rock and metal songs of the 2020s, from 2020 to 2025. The decade is already half over and the deeper we get, the more clearly we all see who the next big bands are and will be, in ...

Stories behind tracks by Fontaines D.C., Beyoncé, Nina Simone and more. By Lindsay Zoladz Today’s playlist — our first of 2026 — is all about you. As I do each December, I asked you to tell me about a ...

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