Between Addison Rae’s big pop star launch and Lily Allen’s crime drama of an album, it’s been an exceptionally thrilling year for music. Artists like Rosalía and Bad Bunny broke through, proving that Brits can champion non-English-speaking music in a way they never have before. Before the death of Black Sabbath icon Ozzy Osbourne, we shared the band’s emotional farewell show; Olivia Rodrigo showed future Pyramid Stage headliners how to do it at Glastonbury before a fallow year; and Jade Thirlwall (who we spoke to below) took us on the ride of her life post-Little Mix.
Outside of music, we shared some unforgettable collective cultural moments too. Stephen Graham had us biting our fingernails with Adolescence, our mouths and hearts dropped at the scandal surrounding The Salt Path, and the Wicked: For Good press tour sprouted strange offshoots of discourse yet again.
