Jay-Z shared his year-end playlist of favorite songs on Tidal this week, which featured appearances from such usual suspects as Drake and 21 Savage, Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Lil Baby, Quavo and Takeoff, ...

Globe music writers share some of their favorite songs of the year. You can find this playlist on Spotify by searching “20 great songs from 2022.” ...

It was a good 2022 for the listeners of Liquid Metal, the most blistering of the metal and rock channels on Sirius XM Radio. To toast the end of the year and jumpstart 2023, Liquid Metal has now ...

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 ...

44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, shared his annual list of favorite songs. 2022’s list included 25 songs, with 13 of the artists featured currently nominated for Grammys. The list of ...

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Whether it’s a new take on Wham!’s “Last Christmas” or an original song, it’s a right of passage for pop stars to drop a holiday tune. This year is no different with Camila Cabello, Lizzo, Sabrina ...

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, ...

The return of clubs and festivals this year meant that dance music finally felt like it was back to normal—not 2021’s “new normal” of tours on tenterhooks and will-they-won’t-they headliners, but the ...

There is something uneasy in the full moon — some eeriness, some mystery. A monthly reminder of our infinitesimal nature, the full moon inspired the poems of Hesiod, ancient Ojibwe lunar calendars, ...