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In an age of dwindling attention spans, songs are the most discrete commercial musical unit and thus the most legible—or at least simplest—route for engaging with what the year in music had to offer.

2025 is winding down, and before we turn the calendar to 2026, let’s look back at some of the biggest songs in Top 40 music this year. Here are the 50 most played songs on Top 40 radio in 2025, ...

Latin music has never been harder to categorize, and in 2025, a treasure trove of traditional rhythms came to the pop-culture forefront, hybridized with cutting-edge production from the realms of ...

I wouldn’t be here—in America, or inside my nervous system as it’s currently constituted—without American music. That’s no exaggeration. As a metalheaded, punk-rock-obsessed, hip-hop-curious English ...

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Every June, the Paste team tallies up its favorite songs of the previous six months. It’s a great way for us to present our favorites to you, but also to each other. The cut-off date for these songs ...

Our editorial staff picks the best songs from a year that's starting to be swarmed with big hits by big artists. The turnover at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 this year has really been something to ...

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