Top 40 music this year. Here are the 50 most played songs on Top 40 radio in 2025, according to Mediabase. #50 squabble up – Kendrick Lamar #49 Party 4 U – Charli XCX #48 Apple – Charli XCX #47 Nokia ...

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However, the song named by Billboard as the No. 1 of all time was the Weeknd 's "Blinding Lights," which spent only four ...

NPR listeners share the one song that hit them the hardest this year, and tell us why they laughed, cried, or simply couldn’t ...

Now that we’ve talked about the best albums, songs, debuts, and EPs of 2025, it’s time to get even more granular and pay ...

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On our just-published year-end Hot 100 chart, 11 of the top 12 songs were released before 2025, and over half of them even ...

NPR Music critics, editors and Tiny Desk producers each singled out one album they would recommend to anyone who came calling ...