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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Oct. 20, 1958, Billboard introduced Hot Country Songs, which has since served as the genre's main songs survey. It was then ...

Thanksgiving is over, December has begun, and year-end list season is upon us in earnest. Pitchfork has unveiled their 100 best songs of 2024, which, as usual, has huge hits side-by-side with more ...

Jay-Z's biggest Billboard Hot 100 hit songs, including "Empire State of Mind," "Run This Town," "Big Pimpin", "Crazy in Love, ...

Welcome to the 25th Songs of the Week of 2026. This edition actually covers the last three weeks. The week before last was ...

For all of its exhausting megastar narratives and apparent monoculture victories, 2023 was, beneath the surface, an unpredictable year. Regional Mexican Music burst into the mainstream, underground ...

Last week, we unveiled our 50 Best Albums of 2023 list, which was topped by the likes of Wednesday, Kelela, Caroline Polachek, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Young Fathers, boygenius and numerous ...

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 ...

Listen to Pitchfork’s favorite songs of 2023 and you’re bound to be blown back by the full spectrum of human emotion: the dizzying high of new love (“Rush,” “Padam Padam,” “Super Shy”), the vengeful ...