Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A collage of five musicians. This year in music had no shortage of hits, but only a handful of songs truly rose above the rest.

Sometimes it felt as if music in 2025 was never really going to start. For the whole first half of the year, the same songs created an immovable roadblock at the top of the charts—Kendrick Lamar and ...

The year is a little over halfway done, which means it's time to look back on the best individual songs of 2026...so far, that is. For someone like McCartney, who could easily be resting on his ...