Here are 12 great pop songs from 2025 that you might have missed, and a playlist of all of the tracks. In the aftermath of the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner, the internet flooded with heartfelt messages of shared grief and support for the family. Mostly.

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” the last song to become a holiday standard, arrived in 1994 — and didn’t top the charts until 25 years later. That hasn’t stopped artists from all corners of popular music from giving it a go. This year brings entries from country stars, comedians and a supermodel.

If 2024 was the year of the breakout pop star—here’s looking at you, Charli, Chappell, and Sabrina—then 2025 in music was the year of… well, a bit of everything. Sure, we

The year is coming to an end, and it has seen some big-name artists drop new albums. From one of the biggest pop superstars of the 21st century to a familiar Beatles face, here are some of 2025’s best LPs.

The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 highlight by either me or my colleague Jon Caramanica — and, shockingly, a few that were even selected by us both.

Kylie Minogue ties U2, David Bowie, Rod Stewart and Eminem as Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) debuts and becomes her eleventh No. 1 album in the U.K.

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Many of the biggest pop music albums of the 2010s have gotten their flowers. However, a few have positively influenced trends in the pop music world throughout that decade, and they really don’t get the love they deserve. Some of the following albums are ...