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 ...

The top country songs of 2023 are rooted in tradition, but they're not necessarily growing there. You'll hear a few pop influences across this playlist, but for the most part, it's a list of hits that ...

Hot on the heels of Apple Music Top 100 Global Tracks list comes the 2023 edition of Spotify Wrapped, which reveals the most popular artists, songs and albums of the year – as well as give users ...

For the first time in a long time, neither Luke Combs nor Morgan Wallen dominate the top spots on this monthly Top 40 country songs list. For September 2023, the honors go to a man nobody had heard of ...

Here are the 30 best rock and metal songs of 2023. New music was everywhere this year. With a couple thousand albums falling under the rock/metal/punk/etc. umbrella, we're talking about well over ...

It seems I’ve been singing the same refrain ever since 2017, the year of our blessed “Despacito.” In 2023, Latin music continued its exponential growth in commercial value. The Recording Industry Assn ...

Producer Bob Rock said working with Motley Crue on their new songs was a very easy experience and the results are "amazing." “They were sober when I did Dr. Feelgood,” Rock said of first working with ...

2023 is the 250th anniversary year of "Amazing Grace." It was first performed on New Year's Day, 1773, and has gone through many changes over the years. You know those songs that you just kind of know ...

In 2023, it was harder than ever to capture the attention of the world with an individual song. With people often looking to the past — creating steaming and social sensations with old material — new ...

Peso Pluma, left, Boygenius and Shakira. (Jess Hutchinson / Los Angeles Times; photos by Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times; Christopher Polk / Penske Media; Kevin Winter / Getty Images) Where do songs ...

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 ...