As featured in ELLE’s best songs of April 2025: “Moody and bass-y, the verses of The Marías’ latest single creep in with lead ...

For previous Beat Authority top ten lists, here's 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019. For older ones, try here .] The London jazz-soul-fusion scene may be the best in the world (hello Michael ...

From Clipse to Metro Boomin and Cardi B, the year was full of memorable rap songs that expanded and experimented with the ...

You might say it was Drake, DJ Premier, or Ice Cube. But the real idea of a beat flip starts with the DJ. In the early days of hip-hop—when DJing was the center of the action and park jams at rec ...

You can’t talk headphones without bringing Beats into the conversation. The house that Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine built revolutionized the product category. Its influence on the headphones market became ...

Behold the 25 Best Latin Songs of 2025! From Bad Bunny to Karol G, dive into the hits and hidden gems that shaped Latin music this year.

All of that had me thinking about the beats I’ve come across lately that have been giving me a similar feeling. These days, that tends to be the stuff coming from the bouyon scene of Guadeloupe and ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...