Music experts have officially crowned the ultimate seasonal anthem, and it hails from the peak of the disco era.

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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 ...

Revisit contenders from Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick Lamar and Billie Eilish. By Lindsay Zoladz I’m sorry to be the one to break it to you, but the end of the summer is approaching. Every year around ...

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 ...

The surprise hit song became an enduring classic.

Since Eddie Cochran released “Summertime Blues” in 1958, songs that capture the essence of summer have frequently become hits during the warm months of surf and sand, romances new and old, and the ...