Country music is music that's aimed at the heart, and it covers a wide range of emotions for all occasions, whether you're happy or sad. Read on to discover the happiest and saddest songs in ...

Apple Music unveiled its year-end charts ranking 2022’s top songs, top Shazams, top fitness songs and tracks with the most-read lyrics. The service also announced the launch of the redesigned ...

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 ...

This year, the streaming giant also launched a Replay exclusively for artists, so music-makers can have access to insights like which of their songs was discovered most via Shazam and which city ...

By any reasonable definition, they're protest songs from a long tradition of similar music. That's especially true if you consider that country music is just folk music for righties (and folk ...

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 ...

On this edition of All Songs Considered, host Robin Hilton sits down with NPR Music's Hazel Cills, Sheldon Pearce and Anamaria Sayre to play, debate and celebrate the year's best 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 ...