Taylor Swift and Adele have sold millions of albums. Adele barely edged out Swift for the fastest-selling album worldwide.

Few artists have mastered timelessness in the music industry quite like Sade Adu, known famously around the world as Sade.

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...