August Ponthier. Brent Faiyaz. Jill Scott's first album in more than a decade. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson is joined by Nastia Voynovskaya from KQED in San Francisco to chat about their favorite ...

The Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album has a contiguous history of little more than three decades, but it actually goes back a lot further. It was founded in 1968 under the name “Best Contemporary ...

Jeremy has more than 2300 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

Another year is coming to an end, bring a close to the first half of the 2020s decade that, for some reason, has felt like it’s been on turbo (perhaps because of the worldwide pandemic that kicked it ...

Rising young talents and revered veterans helped take jazz to a multitude of exciting new destinations in 2025. But the most notable debut album of the year, the aptly titled “New Dawn,” came from a ...

In a year that had no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the first time since 1990, rap thrived in so many other ways. This list of the 25 best rap albums of 2025 includes grand ...

What were 2025's best rock albums? While we recently shared with you the 51 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2025 with you and named Three Days Grace's Alienation our Rock Album of the Year, we have not ...

Debí Tirar Más Fotos, Bad Bunny’s sixth album, arrived in January and immediately set the tone for the year ahead. The 17 songs perfectly capture the sonic cacophony that is driving around Puerto Rico ...

The top country albums of 2025 are so different from each other that it seems like the only thing they have in common is that they fall under the same umbrella genre. But there is one thing these ...

If 2024 was the year of the situationship album (and, yes, there are still plenty that dropped thereafter), then 2025 was the year we danced through the fire. The hypnotic, high-tempo momentum of this ...

Spotify Wrapped has come and gone, so we all know what we listened to the most this year — but which albums were actually the best releases of 2025? When Lily Allen announced her first album in seven ...

Pop critic Ann Powers shares a handful the albums on NPR Music's list of the best of the year, including the one album that nearly the entire team agreed on. What were your favorite albums this year?