NEW YORK – The Associated Press has selected the 10 best songs of the year, presented in no particular order.

Read on and then listen to all of the tracks on our Spotify playlist.

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“Lo que le pasó a Hawaii,” Bad Bunny

Selecting just one song from Bad Bunny’s pivotal 2025 album “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” is a fool’s errand. Most would likely select one of the ubiquitous, up-tempo hits: “DtMF,” “Baile Inolvidable,” “NuevaYol.” And they’d be just as right. But at its heart, this album is both Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio’s love letter to Puerto Rico and his fierce protection of it. Nowhere is that made more apparent than on “Lo que le pasó a Hawaii” (“What happened to Hawaii”), a rallying cry for Puerto Rico’s cultural autonomy in an era of neocolonialization. It b

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