When I joined Pitchfork a couple months ago as its new editor, we got to work on what you’re reading now, the Best Songs of the 2020s So Far, our first big list of the year. On the surface ...

A handful of familiar faces help make the Top 5 of October's Top 40 Country Songs, but one famous face is missing. MGK (with Jelly Roll) has been taking "Lonely Road" to every big stage he can find.

This list is updated monthly with new “Best of the Year”–worthy songs. Whoever invented the phrase “dog days of summer” clearly never thought of 2024’s seasonal music onslaught.

It made the Top 5 of our best Fleetwood Mac songs ranking, though. Now, I am afraid of boats, so I can’t really say for sure whether or not all of these songs would make for a good seaside ...

Fall is finally here, and last week was one of the most stacked New Music Fridays of 2024. And, as is the case with every month nowadays, there wasn’t a bad week of new singles at all in September.

October 22, 2024 • We debate the pros and cons of small-town living through the music of Christian Lee Hutson, Youth Lagoon, Bartees Strange and more in our biweekly update of the year's best songs.

Great as those guest verses are, they’re nice additions to already-fantastic songs. The “360” remix is a different beast: Robyn and Yung Lean, music’s greatest Swedes, give the track an ...

A ranking of the top songs based on streaming and sales activity from within the country- as tracked by Luminate. The ranking is based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams ...

Yet his songs often spoke of the darker side of that lifestyle, best embodied in one of his earliest hits, “Sunday Mornin’ Coming Down” (see below); a later song, “From the Bottle to the ...

"I'm nobody's best friend. "People kept telling me that I'd never make it in Nashville, that I ought to head for California or New York." He had upset the establishment, with songs such as Blame ...

A few weeks ago, we launched the Pitchfork 2020s So Far Readers’ Poll. Thousands of readers voted on the best songs and albums of the half-decade, and here are the results. (Thanks for voting!) ...