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 sounds of summer 2025 already are rising up: poolside chatter, cool beverages sipped through straws, and songs that seal each experience. Each year, music writers scour the charts and the trends ...

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 ...

All right. We're a week into August, so maybe it's a good time to ask, what is this year's song of the summer? Well, according to NPR's Stephen Thompson, the answer is complicated. STEPHEN THOMPSON, ...

There is no clear choice for this year's Song of the Summer in the same way Beyonce's "Break My Soul" dominated the summer of 2022. SABRINA CARPENTER: (Singing) You said your phone was broken, just ...

From left: Alex Warren's "Ordinary," SZA and Kendrick Lamar's "Luther" and Justin Bieber's "Daisies" are topping the charts. But are any of them "song of the summer" material? - Getty Images The ...