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Christmas cheer continued to rule the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart in the final week of the year. Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” finished December at Number One, with 19.1 million streams. Carey’s single was followed by Brenda Lee‘s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” Bobby …

So, How Was Your 2020is a series in which our favorite entertainers answer our questionnaire about the music, culture and memorable moments that shaped their year. We’ll be rolling these pieces out throughout December. Trevor Daniel‘s “Falling” is one of the catchiest songs of 2020, with an insistent hook that …

U2’s Bono and the Edge performed an acoustic rendition of the Darlene Love classic “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” as part of a holiday episode of Ireland’s Late Late Show this week. For the in-studio performance — inspired by the annual all-star Christmastime busking gigs around Dublin’s Grafton Street — …

Paul McCartney celebrated the release of McCartney III by dropping the video for “Find My Way.” Directed by Roman Coppola, the clip features McCartney in his studio in Sussex, England. In the visual, he’s seen in multiple split-screen as he performs the song. He takes on all the parts: singing …

Questlove’s film about the Harlem Cultural Festival, plus docs on Rita Moreno and the band Sparks, are among the music-related projects set to screen at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. The 2021 fest will take place digitally, January 28th through February 3rd, with passes and tickets going on sale on …

When award-winning cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto started working on the video for “Willow” with Taylor Swift in November, he didn’t know that it was a part of her new surprise album, Evermore. “I thought maybe it was a video for the previous album,” he tellsRolling Stone. “I didn’t even know what …

For the past five years, Patterson Hood has lived in Portland, Oregon, more than 2,600 miles away from his former hometown of Athens, Georgia. But Hood moved to Georgia from his home state of Alabama in the mid-Nineties. And during his two-plus decades living in Athens, the Drive-By Truckers frontman …

Jimmy Fallon tapped the Roots and Coldplay’s Chris Martin for a parody of Taylor Swift’s new film, Folklore: The Long Studio Pond. In the bit — dubbed, Fallonlore: The 30 Rock Sessions — Fallon pretended that, back in May, he started writing an album in quarantine and that he enlisted …

Alanis Morissette has dropped a cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1971 classic “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” along with an accompanying video. In the Victor Indrizzo-directed video, Morissette and her family recreate their own bed-in, mirroring Lennon and Ono’s, with their own handwritten “Bed Peace” sign taped behind …

Billie Eilish’s new song, “Therefore I Am,” cruised to the top of the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart, for the week of November 13th through 19th. The track debuted at Number One with a whopping 19.1 million song streams, and comes almost exactly one year after Eilish scored her …