If you are going just by Billboard stats, the biggest song of 2022 wasn’t even released this year — great work, Glass Animals! And that’s often how the music world works these days, with artists ...

It took 50 people to make this list of 2022's 100 best songs. Why put in that much effort, when algorithmically generated playlists can give a listener what they already know they want? Because ...

The 2022 MTV Video Music Awards are officially underway! After Jack Harlow kicked off the show with an epic performance of his song "First Class" -- along with a surprise appearance from Fergie, ...

Three artists enjoying their first hit can be found inside the Top 10 on this monthly list of country music's hottest songs. The September 2022 Top 40 is filled with love and heartbreak, and just a ...

Whether you heard them on TikTok, on the radio or on a fresh slab of old-fashioned vinyl, new songs helped make sense this year of a world that seemed to need more interpretation with every passing ...

Polyphia’s “Playing God” is Loudwire’s pick for the 2022 Song of the Year. Guitarist Tim Henson joins us to talk about the massive track, whether 2010 Polyphia would like 2022 Polyphia, his newest ...

It’s a testament to rap’s robust health that, even though some of the genre’s biggest names didn’t necessarily put out their best work—Drake whiffed twice, while his opposite number, Kendrick, ...

Do you ever get tired of hearing Nat King Cole croon about “chestnuts roasting on an open fire” during the Christmas season? Yeah, neither do we. “The Christmas Song” — especially the version ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...

This month's list of the Top 40 Country songs is notable for who is at the top, and for the song that jumped 27 spaces to crack the Top 5. No. 5 is from an artist that's an unknown entity to radio.

Seventy tracks that identify, grapple with or simply dance away from the anxieties of yet another uncertain year. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Full disclosure: There can’t be a ...

In a year so bizarre that a Kate Bush single from three decades ago somehow topped the charts, it’s fitting that some of the year’s best tracks felt like wildcards. Rising rappers (Glorilla, Ice Spice ...