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The most-played songs in Vietnam, updated every day.

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The original junglists weren’t kidding when they proclaimed, “Hardcore will never die”: Decades later, drum ’n’ bass rolls on, as fast and as furious as ever. While the style’s hallmarks have permeated popular music and pop melodies infuse the music’s crossover wing, another faction are committed to heavyweight grooves that roll like a breakbeat juggernaut. They might reference rave classics or contemporary drill, but in their heart of hearts, they’re resolutely hardcore. This playlist is updated regularly, so if you hear a track you like, add it to your library.

Rap Life is home to hip-hop's heavy hitters and its vanguard—the songs that speak to the moment and define the culture today. This week, that means the long-anticipated Clipse and Kendrick Lamar collaboration “Chains & Whips”. Fans of haute couture clothing were some of the first to hear the track back when it was previewed in June 2023 at a Louis Vuitton runway show. And the man who played it? That would be none other than Louis Vuitton Men’s Creative Director Pharrell Williams, who is not coincidentally the track’s producer. If you’re a fan of hip-hop spats, this one is especially notable as a linkup between Pusha T and Kendrick Lamar, MCs who’ve made no secret of their love of competition. This is hardly a diss song, though. It is, most plainly, a song full of extremely tough bars from MCs who care deeply about that facet of hip-hop. Listen to them go off on “Chains & Whips” on Rap Life, and if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

Hip-shaking highlife vibes and smooth pop hooks are perfect for a tough workout. This range of energetic, earworm hits will have you covered from your first rep to your cool-down stretches at the end—and it suits a night on the dance floor, too. Our editors regularly update this playlist, so if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

Techno has taken many forms over the years: the stargazing fantasia of its Detroit pioneers; the stripped-down exactitude of minimal; the scorched-earth brutalism of its hardest incarnations By and large, techno represents dance music at its most focused and fat-free: Just powerful, pumping machine grooves and commanding synths, sculpted to achieve maximum dance-floor hypnosis. The genre was born in black Midwestern communities in the '80s, as the style’s innovators—Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May—set about translating American funk and European synth-pop to newly affordable electronic gear. Outside the underground, the style languished in the U.S., but it flourished across Europe in the ’90s and ’00s, spawning dub techno, Berlin techno and dozens of further offshoots. In the late ’10s, as a new generation of EDM fans turned its tastes to darker, steelier grooves, techno began infiltrating festival stages worldwide via crossover artists like Ellen Allien and Amelie Lens. But it’s a subterranean sound at heart, one that thrives in opposition and, like its creators, takes the DIY ethos as a matter of pride.