It's All Songs Considered. I'm Robin Hilton, Stephen Thompson here.

Hello, Robin. So we're looking back at the past 25 years of all songs considered, looking at

our number one songs from each year. We are all the way up to 2022, so we're almost done.

You know, we're in December now, and we're posting all of our best of 2025 stuff.

2022 was actually kind of interesting for me.

When I went back, I tried to find what my picks were from that year.

I didn't have any because it was the first year I did not do a top 10 albums or song lists.

Why not?

I think, you know, I was so deep into new music Friday, uh, you know,

I used to host new music. I know, I know this life. I think you're starting to figure it out,

that you listen to so much music and your, your ears start getting bigger and bigger and bigger,

and you start just loving so much more stuff. Are you sure this isn't just we're getting older?

I don't think it is that.

I think it because...

You meant figuratively.

Yes, I meant figuratively.

Literally our ears are dropping.

No, I just think I found while hosting New Music Friday and consuming that much stuff

that I found it nearly impossible to

whittle it down to just, oh, tier 10 albums, the 10 best songs, because I just loved so much stuff.

But, you know, you've been going first just about every time we've done this, but I'm going to go

first with what I think is maybe what we we would pick as as our number one song for

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