I’m not sure if the Gen X stare is a thing, but it certainly was last week when someone asked my thoughts on the song of the summer. I had nothing. Every summer, you see, has at least one song of the ...

What is 2025’s Song of the Summer? As Labor Day looms, we still don’t have an answer—but there’s a solid pool of candidates. But what makes up a Song of the Summer? We’ve boiled it down to five ...

Each week, we use this column to break down major takeaways from the latest Billboard albums and singles charts. But it seems like a good week to break down a larger question about the charts circa ...

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 ...

Unlike most of its neighbors in the top 10, Lenae's slow-burning hit actually sounds like summer, says NPR Music's Stephen Thompson. It's a buoyant R&B throwback with a sugar rush vibe that fits in at ...

Gone are the sweaty days when “Not Like Us” lit up parties nationwide, uniting Drake dissers everywhere. There are manchildren and daisies and animated anthems from “KPop Demon Hunters,” but nothing ...

To put it bluntly, the vibes this summer have been completely non-existent. We’ve had Brat summer, Barbenheimer, and plenty of hot girl summers, but there’s something a little… off about this year.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. You can thank music supervisor Melyssa Hardwick for many of the show’s iconic tracks, which have ...

As summer slowly melts into fall, the songs that defined the warmer months are coming into clearer view. An announcement on Aug. 27 from Spotify named five songs of the summer, hand-selected by the ...

The leaves are falling, and Pumpkin Spiced Lattes are back; that means Summer is unofficially over. Billboard put a pin in the season after releasing its Songs of the Summer list for 2025. Over the ...

In a New Yorker piece published Monday (Dec. 1), the New Zealand pop star said that the Canadian singer's Swag lead single was the "closest we came" to having a bonafide SOTS this year. "It ticked all ...

As summer slowly melts into fall, the songs that defined the warmer months are coming into clearer view. While last year's soundtrack was dominated by grunge queen Charli XCX's "Brat" and bubble gum ...