Variety's music writers pick 2025's best songs, from Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Dijon, Hayley Williams, Taylor Swift and more.

"It's Christmas Eve in West Cornwall and Maggie is hoping to gather her disparate family under one roof for the first time in several years." (Image: will perrett) We're just weeks away from the big ...

On our just-published year-end Hot 100 chart, 11 of the top 12 songs were released before 2025, and over half of them even hit their peak on the listing for the first time in 2024. So cluttered was ...

In a Truth Social post, the president said he would sign an order that would eliminate a patchwork of state laws that have emerged in recent years. By Cecilia Kang President Trump said in a social ...

Doctors say it’s important to be mindful of other people who have things they may be navigating, whether it’s the loss of a loved one, mental health issues, or chronic health illnesses. When thinking ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...