Summer is here. Hello to longer days frolicking in the sun, enjoying the outdoors, and taking a much-needed break from the regular routines of adulthood. To me, nothing ushers in the summer like a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

All this week, The FADER is exploring the Songs of the Summer, from massive global hits to the most exciting tracks from emerging artists. We’ve broken our list of contenders into a March ...

What will be the No. 1 song of the summer of 2025? We begin making our way toward the answer, as Billboard’s annual Songs of the Summer chart returns to Billboard.com. The 20-position Songs of the ...

A road trip is only as good as its playlist. Maybe that seems a little dramatic, but a good queue of songs is key to making a road trip better. I’m driving to South Dakota in a couple of weeks, which ...

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 ...

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 ...