As a '90s kid who spent hours with a Walkman in the backseat of a car, an appreciation for the sonic narrative has stuck — that same patience, nuance and attention to detail can be found in my ...

Tunes that hit the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, album cuts that were better than the promoted singles and a piano ballad that'll have you in your feelings were among the year's highlights.

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 ...

As the music industry starts to wind down for the year every December, there’s nothing to keep a shred of momentum going like making sense of the best music we heard this year. But artists tend to be ...

In a year when we inched that much closer to streaming’s eternal now, the music of 2022 felt suffused with temporality — looking back to a better time, anticipating tomorrow’s promise, taking stock of ...

For years now, TikTok has been known as a hitmaking platform and perhaps the best place to discover the next great musical artists. Major record labels make a point of signing those with tunes picking ...

Another year is almost finished and with fewer than four weeks left in 2022, digital services are in full swing presenting users with their year-end recaps, from most-watched videos to most-like pics ...

Back then it was Lolita, now it’s coquette. The revival of Tumblr era culture and fashion — otherwise known as “Tumblrcore” or “2014core” — has been on the rise for the past couple of years, but the ...

These songs are selected for their content, sheer appeal, impact, and commercial success in Nigeria After an exciting year filled with glitz and glamor in which new acts rubbed shoulders with ...

Ivorian rapper Didi B’s ‘En Haut’ blends trap, coupé-décalé, and call-and-response. With tempered vocals from JR, Didi B reels off braggadocio lyrics targeting his perceived foes. ‘En Haut’ employs ...

Paste’s music writers nominated more than 300 tracks for the Best Songs of 2022. The 50 songs below are the ones that came out on top. They vary stylistically and lyrically, but there’s something ...