Our list of the best British and Irish tracks from 2025 includes Olivia Dean, RAYE, PinkPantheress and more artists who soundtracked a banner year.

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Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a ...

In the midst of all the political turmoil of 2025, there came a song that gave us hope. “Golden,” released in early July off ...

Breathe in, breathe out, Hilary Duff stans because this is “what dreams are made of.” The millennial role model that is Hilary Duff has returned to music with her new single “Mature.” It’s Duff’s ...

Olivia Rodrigo recently blasted the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for sharing a “racist, hateful propaganda” video that featured her song. The 22-year-old pop singer criticized the Trump ...

The UK rap superstar contemplates fame, faith, and the self on a new album whose melancholy mood reflects the solitary nature of introspection. Save this story Save this story Opening frame: a dimly ...

Rolling Stone’s list of “The 250 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century So Far” is out, and several K-pop songs made the cut! With the first quarter of the 21st century winding to a close, the American ...

The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of America. This was the decade when MTV revolutionized how we consumed music, when ...

The 1980s were a transformative era in pop music. Musicians were moving away from the disco genre of the '70s and decided to innovate with bolder sounds. It was a time in which synthesizers, ...