From Bad Bunny to Rosalía, Metacritic's top 10 albums of 2025 celebrate bold risks and career-defining releases.

If we needed any more proof that the album isn't dead, 2025 was it. On this episode, Stephen Thompson is joined by Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen to run through 12 dazzling albums that stuck with ...

Tyler, The Creator continues to defy expectations with Don’t Tap the Glass, one of the most intriguing rap albums of 2025. Nine months after CHROMAKOPIA and on the eight-year anniversary of Flower Boy ...

The 21st century has seen the release of some amazing albums, including David Bowie's Blackstar, Robyn's Body Talk, and ...

Before Kartel, Lila Iké, Keznamdi, Jesse Royal and Mortimer face off for the 2026 best reggae album Grammy, check out Billboard’s ranking of the 10 Best Caribbean Albums of 2025.

Join us for Euronews Culture's countdown to our favourite album of the year. How many have you heard?View on euronews ...

Queer artists have been defining music for years, and 2026 was no different. With legends like Lady Gaga, Cardi B, and Tyler, the Creator releasing new albums, and rising artists like Lambrini Girls, ...

Perhaps a wise prophet named Addison Rae sums it up best: “So I put my headphones on / Listen to my favorite song.” And, boy, ...

This year’s best music, our critic thinks, defied conventions of genre and doctrine, showing how hybrid and fluid the art has become. Chappel Roan; Tyler, the Creator; Willie Nelson. Unlike the rest ...

Trends change, but I’ve never in my lifetime seen the thirst for punk music die. It shows up in surprising ways, like when Olivia Rodrigo gets arenas full of impressionable kids singing along to punk ...

Bad Bunny started the year off right with DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, one of his best albums to date. Since then, there has been a wealth of exciting new music, from anxiously awaited comebacks like Bon ...

Earlier this year, my colleague and bud Kelefa Sanneh suggested that music critics, as a lot, have gone soft—becoming submissive, overly agreeable, and, in some cases, nearly servile. He’s right, of ...