EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...

So there was no official song of summer. So let’s move beyond the biggest hits and check out the 10 songs we kept coming back to this year. The singer-songwriter who has worked with Miley Cyrus, ...

Before he was the guy leading stadiums full of fans through the chorus of "Sweet Caroline," Neil Diamond was a kid in Brooklyn writing song lyrics while bored in class. Diamond's expansive songwriting ...

With 2025 coming to a close, that means we've reached the halfway point for this decade. Difficult as that may be to believe, it is true, and it technically marks six full years of music, counting ...

Latin music has never been harder to categorize, and in 2025, a treasure trove of traditional rhythms came to the pop-culture forefront, hybridized with cutting-edge production from the realms of ...

It’s a December tradition like no other: Roasting Reading former President Barack Obama’s annual list of his favorite movies, books, and songs. This year’s selection includes a cut off Richard Russell ...

90 tracks! Five hours! Remix the year in pop however you wish. By Lindsay Zoladz The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m back ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter we’ll be doing 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, and I’ll be ranking every ...

We should address the elephant in the room: hip-hop did not have a strong year on the charts. In fact, rap music had its worst showing in years. Back in October, it made headlines when—for the first ...

The top country songs of 2025 prove that the next generation has arrived, and we're not just talking about the artists. Important songs from this year broke on streaming platforms or social media ...

12/24 UPDATE: We've reached the finals! David Bowie and Bing Crosby beat out Elvis Presley and John Lennon made easy work of the Eagles. Now they square off against each other. You have until 11:59AM ...