The 100 Best Songs of 2021: Staff List Our staff's favorite hit singles and hidden gems from the past 12 months of pop music.

Here are our 70 favorite songs of 2021.

The best songs of the year so far have come from newcomers and veterans alike. They originate from all around the globe: South Africa, Puerto Rico, Los Angeles. One is designed to be as short as ...

The images here — of the “men-in-music business conference,” of classic ‘00s rock bands, of the white dress/tight dress/waitress — are impossibly vivid; like a lot of 2021 culture, they ...

Many of the best songs of 2021 are on the best albums of 2021. But of course there are many more: peaks of other albums, onetime collaborations, singles, random streams. Here are 25 memorable ...

So, 2021 wasn’t quite the “post-pandemic” return to normal we’d all hoped for. But once again, music carried us through, and not even ever-mutating variants could stop incredible artists ...

Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, Polo G, Olivia Rodrigo, Drake, Japanese Breakfast, and more have delivered the best tracks of 2021 so far.

Some of my favorite music of 2021 came from artists who were new to me — a contrast to my 2020 list, the year COVID made it extra challenging to the unknowns.

Tracks from Silk Sonic, Meg Thee Stallion, and Billie Eilish made our list of the year's best songs.

Many of the best songs of 2021 are on the best albums of 2021, listed here. But of course there are many more: peaks of other albums, onetime collaborations, singles, random streams.

From Jersey club to the U.K. underground, 2021's best electronic music looks like a complex melting pot of genre and history.