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

Best friends since their teens, across their thirty-year career, Biffy Clyro have graduated from being a discordant alt-rock cult concern to platinum-plated UK festival headliners while retaining ...

Avatar: Fire and Ash is the third entry in the franchise and a direct sequel to 2022's Avatar: The Way of Water.

After claiming the title of top song in Utah's Spotify Wrapped last year, Benson Boone's "Beautiful Things" was booted to the No. 5 spot in 2025.

Last week, Spotify's Wrapped and Apple Music's Replay gave users their top songs, artists and genres of the year. That got us ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Some years, a handful of songs dominate our playlists, festival stages and social media trends. In others, the playing field feels a lot more level, greatness more evenly distributed. The last 12 ...

Music is different from film and TV. It’s emotional in a way that makes “objectivity” feel faintly ridiculous, and in the 21st century there’s no longer a shared monoculture to fall back on. So ...

Taylor Swift has officially submitted five of her most-acclaimed songs for consideration in her first nomination to the Songwriters Hall of Fame, a significant milestone in a career that has helped ...

In this video, I perform Oshi no Ko songs, including YOASOBI - Idol, GEMN - Fatal, and Mashle - BLING BANG BANG BORN by Creepy Nuts on piano in a public setting. The video also features various ...

Do you wish you could just wave a magic wand and make NBC's "Wicked" concert special appear? Well, we can't grant that wish... but we do have some inside intel to pass along. TVLine was in attendance ...