What song hit you hard in 2025?

VPM | By Robin Hilton

Published December 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM EST

Record a voice memo on your phone telling us about a song released in 2025 that hit you particularly hard. Maybe it’s one you listened to on repeat, made you cry, or just spoke to you and connected with you unlike any other song this year.

Email the audio file to us at [email protected] and we may use it on an upcoming episode of All Songs Considered.

Be sure to include:

Your first name
Where you’re located (city name)
The name of the song and artist
Why or how it hit you so hard this year

If you prefer, you can also tell us about it in an email (send to [email protected]) or by filling out the form below.

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Robin Hilton

Robin Hilton is the Senior Podcast Producer for NPR Music and hosts the New Music Friday episodes of All Songs Considered. He is also a composer and multi-instrumentalist whose original scores have appeared in podcasts, films, radio programs and other works. He arranged and performed the theme for NPR's Weekend All Things Considered and composed and performed its elections coverage theme. You can hear more of his music here.

Prior to joining NPR in 2000, Hilton co-founded Small Good Thing Productions, a non-profit production company for independent film, radio and music in Athens, Georgia.

Hilton lived and worked in Japan as an interpreter for the government, and taught English as a second language to junior high school students.

From 1989 to 1996, Hilton worked for NPR member stations KANU and WUGA as a senior producer and assistant news director and was a long-time contributing reporter to NPR's daily news programs All Things Considered and Morning Edition.

Along the way, Hilton worked as an emergency room orderly, a blackjack dealer and a fruitcake factory assembly lineman.

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