As July kicks off, 2025 still lacks a defining summer anthem. Alex Warren and Sabrina Carpenter have charting hits, but they lack creativity and staying power. Last year's musical highs, combined with ...

Summer pop hits also continued to celebrate the emotions of L-O-V-E. Beyoncé a huge hit with “Crazy In Love” in 2003. Two years later, Mariah Carey dominated the summer charts in 2005 in much the same ...

Alex Warren’s chart-topping ballad “Ordinary” is this summer’s most popular song by the numbers, but critics and music fans have lamented that this summer seemed to have few breakout hits as the ...

The beginning of summer is exactly one month away, but school years are winding down, and warmer weather has everyone, including Spotify, thinking about the season ahead. To kick things off, the music ...

What makes a great song of the summer? Is it an up-tempo pop banger? Something with an earworm chorus? Does it need to feature the words “summer,” “sunshine,” or another synonym — “California” — in ...

This is the time of year when online chatter begins to percolate about what the song of the summer will be. Last year, Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso" and Chappell Roan's "Good Luck, Babe!" were ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- When rocker Eddie Cochran released "Summertime Blues" in August 1958, the concept of "the song of summer" was born. It had a catchy melody with a chugging beat and lyrics that ...