Taylor Swift fills twice as many spots on Billboard's Top Album Sales chart as any other artist as purchases skyrocket and ...

Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl ends the year as the most-certified 2025 album, as it moved five million equivalent ...

Five years later, Taylor Swift’s Evermore still feels overlooked, even as its rich storytelling and emotional depth continue ...

The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

The RIAA shared their annual report, and Taylor Swift's 'The Life of a Showgirl' was the top album of the year by quite a ...

Here are the 51 best rock and metal albums of 2025. We're officially more than halfway through the decade. It's already produced its own crop of new ascending stars and quite a handful of veterans who ...

I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...

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 ...

The best albums of 2025 spanned seismic rage rap, intricate guitar music, protest folk, spacey dream pop, and laptop twee. A virtuoso of experimental electronic music re-emerged, a Brooklyn band ...

Do you ever wonder what your favorite artists are listening to? I know I do, and as we find ourselves in the throes of every music media outlet's year-end lists, I decided to put the ball in the artis ...

Like millions of Taylor Swift fans, Aiden Watson checked his mail in early October and found “The Life of a Showgirl” waiting for him on vinyl. He had been obsessed with Swift since he was a child, ...

Discover a broad range of this year's most compelling classical recordings, including symphonic booty-shakers, mystic violin, ...