As the curtain falls down on 2025, we close the year on what has been a glorious year for heavy metal, and indeed what can even go down as one of the greatest in the annals of metal history; ...

Richard Smallwood, the acclaimed Grammy-nominated gospel singer whose music has been celebrated by artists like Destiny’s Child and Whitney Houston, has passed away at the age of 77.

Literary fiction, reportage, fantasy, crime, books for young readers and much more—the Lounge team looks back on their favourite reads of the year gone by ...

Photos by Amy Sussman/Getty Images, Marleen Moise/Getty Images, Lester Cohen/Getty Images, Victor Boyko/Getty Images. The year 2025 began as a mess, and only got worse as time progressed. Everything ...

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

Following their list of the Top 100 Albums of 2025, Rolling Stone have unveiled their Top Songs of the Year. Many of the picks carry over from the album list, but there are also a bunch of artists who ...

Rosé, Bad Bunny and Bruno Mars. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Kylie Cooper/Reuters, Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartRadio, Kevin Winter/Getty Images for the Recording Academy) ’Tis the ...

YouTube has revealed which songs were the most popular in Korea this year! On December 3, YouTube Korea wrapped up 2025 by releasing several year-end lists that looked back at trends from the past ...

ROSÉ and Bruno Mars’ hit collaboration “APT.” has officially been named the biggest song of 2025 across Apple Music, sweeping every major metric on the platform’s year-end charts. The track led ...

Apple Music shared its year-end list of the platform’s top music of 2025, and the most-streamed songs were primarily from 2024. Today (December 3) is Spotify’s turn, as Spotify Wrapped is out now.

The streaming platform also announced several updates to its Replay feature, making a strong push to rival Spotify’s year-end Wrapped feature. By Nicole Fell Assistant Editor Apple Music has unveiled ...

With sharp wit and even sharper observational skills, Megan Moroney has recorded some of the very most relatable lyrics in country music in the past few years. Her songs primarily deal with the ups ...