What song defined your year? This is always a difficult question to answer, but in 2020, it’s even more challenging. Some years, you can take the easy way out and just pick the song that you heard at ...

This piece is running as part of the 2020 Uproxx Music Critics Poll. Uproxx asked for each of the critics filling out our 2020 Uproxx Music Critics Poll to list out their favorite song of the year.

While we struggled to finish a 1,000-piece puzzle in lockdown, major stars including Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, BTS and Bad Bunny released multiple albums, singles and even films this year. In spite ...

Here are 21 of the songs we’ll take with us from this year into 2021 — where hopefully we can dance together again. Photo-Illustration: Vulture, Getty Images and YouTube This was the sort of year that ...

It’s the end of the year and tech platforms are beginning to roll out their annual recap lists. For some music streaming services, this means revealing what the top artists, albums, and songs were for ...

There is a wealth of new holiday music from country and Americana artists this year. As we enter the heart of an unusual Yuletide season, Rolling Stone Country rounds up some of this year’s best ...

Throughout this truly unprecedented year, songs have been with us. They were with us through the pandemic, when a rapper riffing on being “bored in the house” or a pop star creating an entire album ...

Tracks responding to real-time events and a spectrum of moods captured the hodgepodge feelings of life in lockdown. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Pareles No short list can sum ...

In a year saddled with the stressors of several, songs are one of the few means of escape on which we’ve remained able to rely. Whether it’s the distinct high point of an all-around outstanding album, ...

“Ghost” is the most face-contorting track on this list. The guitars sound like their strings are made from industrial cables, so low that the human ear is probably a subpar vehicle through which to ...

Looking back years from now, we may or may not remember how we encountered the songs that defined 2020 — on the radio, on a streaming service, on TikTok as the soundtrack of somebody’s viral dance ...