From the "Shallow" to "The Middle" to the highest of "High Hopes," music was captivating at all levels in 2018. Here are the Billboard staff's 100 favorite songs of the year.

In the case of many — including our No. 1 song — they were actually videos, tethered to images we've been unable to shake since. These are the 100 best songs of 2018, as selected by the staff ...

For this song from their 2018 album What a Time to Be Alive—whose excellent title track did not meet the timeline criteria for this list—beloved North Carolinian rockers Superchunk rounded up ...

From Justin Timberlake's 'The Hard Stuff' to Eminem's 'Fall,' here are TIME's top 10 worst songs of 2018.

Here are Vulture’s best songs of the year, featuring Mitski, Robyn, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Travis Scott, Drake, Robyn, the 1975, Kacey Musgraves, Juice WRLD, Lady Gaga ...

If you want to know the best new songs of 2018 before the year-end lists (or before all your friends are listening to them), then you've come to the right place. We'll be updating this all year ...

The way that I process music changed in 2018, a development owed to the enveloping voices and sounds I chose to put in my ears and the eight people I get to parse them with online every day.

For NPR's 100 Best Songs Of 2018, Mina Tavakoli wrote: "With breezy Korean dealt in sotto voce, a rubber bongo bounce and a melody as instantly detectable as a pop chorus or a logo, Peggy Gou's ...

2018’s official song of the summer won’t be anointed until August, but with July halfway through, now’s the time to look at the contenders as they stand, according to Billboard’s summer ...

Not every song on this list of the best songs from 2018 was a "hit" per se, but really what is a hit nowadays? "Space Cowboy" by Kacey Musgraves didn't crack many radio playlists, but can you ...