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 ...

Country music's fans then included a lot of World War II veterans, and many artists unquestionably accepted the government's rationale for the war and recorded songs that gave full-throated ...

By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Pareles Here’s a dipperful of worthwhile tracks from the ocean of music released this year. The top of my list is big-statement songs ...

It was a year in which the best pop music truly made it up as it went along. Off-the-cuff collaborations? Sure. Songs by fictional characters? Why not. A guy filmed singing in a field by a West ...