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THE YEAR IN REVIEW: From the big-city yearning of Chappell Roan’s breakup ballad to Sam Fender and Olivia Dean’s wonderful collaboration ‘Rein Me In’, The Independent’s culture team pick their favourite songs of the past 12 months

Lorde will top a bill including Zara Larsson and PinkPantheress in August next year

The first full Australian tour for the US pop star marks the latest coup for the festival, whose 2025 iteration was headlined by Charli xcx

EA Sports has revealed the official FC 26 soundtrack featuring 109 tracks, most of them available to stream on Spotify now. Among them is Italian international Moise Kean, performing under the name KMB, marking the first time a professional soccer player has appeared on an FC soundtrack.

Britpop band Pulp previously won the prize in 1996 for Different Class.

Only two debut albums – among them the ‘token’ jazz release – feature among this year’s list of nominations for the coveted UK and Irish music prize

The average length of a song in the UK Top 40 reached just under 3m 30s in 2025, up from an all-time low of around 3m 15s in 2019

The singer-songwriter’s warm laconic voice holds together lounge jazz stylings, dreamy pop and amenable folk, cut through with a self-deprecating wit

“Starlight reaches for a kind of euphoric melancholy - a guiding light in all of my music,” says Harle