The year’s almost over, but YouTube Music isn’t waiting any longer to release its personalized 2025 Recap. In addition to cataloging your top tracks of the year, the Recap offers AI-powered analysis ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Four of the biggest songs on YouTube among American viewers in 2025 ...

Connie Francis' "Pretty Little Baby" was relegated to the B-side of a single when the American singer originally released the song in 1962. But this year it went viral as the soundtrack to hundreds of ...

YouTube has released its 2025 Year-End lists in categories including top songs, top songs on shorts and top creators. By Jessica Nicholson YouTube has released its 2025 Year-End Trending Lists, ...

YouTube released its annual end-of-the-year trending lists for 2025 — and launched the first general iteration of YouTube Recap, a personalized, shareable highlight sizzle reel of users’ overall watch ...

How do you sum up a year in music when the song of the summer was a travel commercial? If “Nothing Beats a Jet2 Holiday” proved anything, it’s that the music landscape is in unprecedented territory in ...

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Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...