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 ...

2024 was widely viewed as a thrilling year for mainstream hits. 2025, not even close. “There haven’t been too many big moments,” says Nima Etminan, COO of Empire, the independent label that signed ...

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 ...

To some degree, the verdict remains out on the summer songs of 2024 and 2025. Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” was one of the biggest hits of summer 2024, but it lacks any kind of summer vibe unless ...