(RNS) — Timothy Snyder, a historian of the Holocaust and Eastern European tyranny, has a tip for dealing with authoritarianism: “Don’t obey in advance.” So, when the university that granted me my ...

YouTube just unlisted all of its old YouTube Rewind videos. But, why? Credit: Christoph Soeder/picture alliance via Getty Images YouTube Rewind may have ended back in 2019, but it seems like YouTube ...

The title track of Mohit Suri’s film Saiyaara has taken the top spot on YouTube India’s list of trending songs. The song is composed by Arslan Nizami, Tanishk Bagchi and Faheem Abdullah, written by ...

YouTube Recap 2025 vs Spotify Wrapped 2025: With just 27 days left till 2025 end, music apps have subtly transformed into statistical apps. Hopping on the social media trend of shareable summaries, ...

The end of year recaps can be dizzying. But they’re also full of gold. By Sam Sifton I am the host of The Morning. The lists are coming. The lists are here. Spotify and Apple Music pushed out their ...

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

YouTube today released a number of year-end lists tracking the trends “that defined 2025.” Among them was the site’s Top 10 podcasts. Per YouTube, it “ranks the most popular podcast playlists on ...

When it comes to some podcasts, listeners are all ears. Spotify, Apple, and YouTube have released their respective year-end data, revealing which podcasts listeners streamed the most in 2025. Rogan's ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...

Connie Francis' "Pretty Little Baby" was relegated to the B-side of a single when the American singer originally released the song in 1962. But this year it went viral as the soundtrack to hundreds of ...

YouTube released its annual end-of-the-year trending lists for 2025 — and launched the first general iteration of YouTube Recap, a personalized, shareable highlight sizzle reel of users’ overall watch ...

The video platform also debuted a personalized "recap" for users, outlining what they watched this year. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor YouTube on Tuesday released its trending lists for 2025, which ...