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Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

Created with FreeYourMusic.com where you can transfer playlists to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and others

This glittering pop deity yanks you into her world with both hands.

Whether it’s a weekday morning or Saturday night, get going with this personalised set of upbeat music. Refreshed every Monday.

Songs to help you relax and unwind. Updated every Sunday.

Discover new music from artists we think you'll like. Refreshed every Friday.

Billie Eilish started writing songs when she was around 11, exploring a strain of melancholy, minimal and slightly surrealistic pop. Writing and recording with her producer brother FINNEAS, Eilish hit full flight with 2019’s <i>WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?</i>, an experimental opus exploring mental health and totally upending notions of what constitutes pop right now. The darkly pulsing “bad guy” and the spectral piano ballad “when the party’s over” mined complicated lyrics within stripped-back arrangements, bolstering the album’s Grammy fortunes and later inclusion on Apple Music’s 100 Best Albums list. Her 2021 follow-up <i>Happier Than Ever</i> charted a path further into self-discovery—see the title track’s cathartic slow burn and distorted climax—after which 2023’s Oscar-winning tear-jerker “What Was I Made For?” felt downright existential. Even when swinging freely through moods and musical approaches on 2024’s <i>HIT ME HARD AND SOFT</i>, she spikes the seemingly jaunty and carefree “LUNCH” with a hungry proclamation of queer desire. For someone who always sounds like she’s whispering closely guarded secrets in our ears, Eilish’s songwriting only seems to be growing more personal.

A Sing-ready collection of songs from the 2010s.

Spark some nostalgia with essential hits of the last 20 years, from pop smashes to indie-disco standards via hip-hop classics and everything in between. Hand-picked from all genres, these songs are guaranteed to get a party started—or simply liven up your commute. Our editors regularly update this playlist—if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

Here’s a time capsule of pop classics that sound as good now as the day they dropped. Whether you’re taking a trip down memory lane or visiting for the first time, let this mix be your guide. Our editors update these selections regularly, so if you hear something you like (whether it’s a forgotten favourite or a new discovery), add it to your library.

If the music we loved in 2025 tells us anything, it’s that this was a great year for a reset. Everywhere we looked—and listened—our biggest stars seemed to be offering truths wrought from self-reflection and even actionable items to right our personal ships. Relationships, to be specific, were at the heart of so many eye-opening, and also foot-tapping, moments—from homegrown talent in particular. JADE looked into her “Plastic Box” to wonder how her own insecurity was standing in the way of new love, while Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need” suggested knowing your own worth is key to getting the partner you deserve. As part of one of the year’s big comebacks, Jarvis Cocker confronted his fear of a certain four-letter word on Pulp’s “Got to Have Love”, and PinkPantheress built “Illegal” around the idea that a relationship with drugs can conjure up many of the issues that a bad personal relationship throws at you. See that—even superstars get frustrated. But it’s not as if they’re unwilling to share solutions, like on CMAT’s “The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station”, an inspired-by-sausage-rolls meditation on banishing irrational hatred, or Dave and Kano’s “Chapter 16”, in which two of the UK’s foremost MCs swap numerous pearls of hard-won wisdom. For all the compelling introspection though, some took a wider view. Sam Fender’s “Crumbling Empire”, for instance, surveyed towns, professions and lives brought to decay by political policies. There were songs about loss (Bad Bunny’s “DtMF”), but just as frequently ones that celebrated what it means to be alive, our heroes enjoying the fruits of their labour, as Clipse did with “Ace Trumpets”. And with the viral “Shake It to the Max (FLY)” remix, MOLIY got the world to succumb to the thrill of the dance floor. Like a conversation with a cherished friend, so many of the songs we loved in 2025 delivered wisdom, reflection and, inevitably, release. These are the best songs of the year across all genres—in the UK and around the world—as chosen by our editors.