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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Graphic by Chris Panicker It’s August, which means the Song of the Summer debate has once again descended upon Pitchfork.com. And ...

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.

Every year, there’s one track that somehow makes its way from a teenager’s headphones to my mom’s Pilates playlist. You know, the song that plays at rooftop bars and seeps into your subconscious ...

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 ...

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 anyone whose summer wasn ...