Notice anything unusual about this year's top hits? Yes, more than half of them are from last year. In 2024, there were 13 songs released that year in the Hitmakers final Top 25, as tallied by our ...

If you’re like a lot of us, this past year might be one you’re not unhappy to see go. (Maybe you’d even like to see the swinging door slap 2024’s ass on the way out.) But then, also like some of us, ...

Alex Warren’s chart-topping ballad “Ordinary” is this summer’s most popular song by the numbers, but critics and music fans have lamented that this summer seemed to have few breakout hits as the ...

WHAT IS the “song of the summer”? For more than a century, music fans and critics have considered which anthems capture the season of barbecues and suntans. In 1910 the New York Tribune wondered ...

Notice anything unusual about this year’s top hits? Yes, more than half of them are from last year. Not all of the 2024 songs are necessarily holdovers from last year — several, including songs by ...