{"id":2215636,"date":"2025-12-29T16:08:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2215636"},"modified":"2025-12-29T16:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:08:19","slug":"a-look-back-at-2025s-chart-toppers-best-songs-and-standout-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/a-look-back-at-2025s-chart-toppers-best-songs-and-standout-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"A look back at 2025\u2019s chart-toppers, best songs and standout artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O7MdIFgcRIU?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Music in 2025 has had it all, from breakout new artists and big stars continuing to top the charts, to AI-generated artists igniting fierce debate online. To help us sift through the year in music, Stephanie Sy speaks with freelance music writer and critic Maura Johnston and freelance music journalist Candace McDuffie.<\/p>\n<p>Watch PBS News for daily, breaking and live news, plus special coverage. We are home to PBS News Hour, ranked the most credible and objective TV news show.<\/p>\n<p>Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app:\u00a0https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG<br \/>\nFind more from PBS NewsHour at\u00a0https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<br \/>\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel:\u00a0https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok:\u00a0https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@pbsnews<br \/>\nX (formerly Twitter):\u00a0http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour<br \/>\nInstagram:\u00a0http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour<br \/>\nFacebook:\u00a0http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe:<br \/>\nPBS NewsHour podcasts:\u00a0https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts<br \/>\nNewsletters:\u00a0https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O7MdIFgcRIU\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music in 2025 has had it all, from breakout new artists and big stars continuing to top the charts, to AI-generated artists igniting fierce debate online. To help us sift through the year in music, Stephanie Sy speaks with freelance music writer and critic Maura Johnston and freelance music journalist Candace McDuffie. Watch PBS News [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2215637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1767024497_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215638,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215636\/revisions\/2215638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2215637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}