This list of NPR Music's best songs of 2023 looks unlike any we've ever made before. It's not just the number of songs that has changed. There are no rankings here — in fact, the 123 songs below ...

While the streaming-age unbundling of albums broke down the idea of what a single could be even further, the year’s best songs all shook things up in their own right. Club-ready tracks from Beyoncé, ...

A side effect of the way we listen to music in the streaming era is that it's harder than ever for new stars to break through. Or it was until 2024, anyway. This year, it felt like a page turned, the ...

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Here are the 30 best rock and metal songs of 2023. New music was everywhere this year. With a couple thousand albums falling under the rock/metal/punk/etc. umbrella, we're talking about well over ...

But even while taste clearly plays a role in the ideal music for getting work done, research suggests it’s not the only factor. A parade of studies indicate that different types of music — or no music ...

Even though we're not even four years into the 2020s, this new decade has already brought some killer new country songs. Whether you're into pop-country or the more traditional stuff, the current crop ...

The University of Arizona women’s basketball defeated the University of Northern Colorado 84-58 on Tuesday, Nov. 21 at 6 p.m. in McKale Center as the Wildcats remain with a perfect record, improving..

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“I don’t know how to feel, but I wanna try,” sang Billie Eilish, as Barbie, and in 2023, some of us knew exactly how she felt. (Or couldn’t.) Fortunately, there are about 35 million songs a year being ...