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“The one sung by drunkards.” That’s how an unknown singer and songwriter explained the effect of summer in May 1907. More than a hundred years ago, artists were fighting for whose song would be the beginning of summer. In 1940, Billboard magazine published the first music album. This was the first step in the expansion of the phenomenon of the song of the summer, which, according to music critic David Hajdu, did not fully emerge in the United States until the 1950s and 1960s in the era of rock and roll

Among the effects of the summer are songs that are famous all over the world. For example, the Rolling Stones classic (I don’t get that) Satisfaction dominated American records in 1965. In Britain, people could only listen to it on pirate radio – it was too exotic for the official ones . In 1976, the song Don’t Go Breaking My Heart launched the unknown singers Elton John and Kiki Dee. The summer of 1982 was dominated by Eye of the Tiger, the song joined the famous icon Sylvester Stallone in the role of the movie Rocky.

The Macarena was also a summer hit – since 1996 it has been playing everywhere. After the end of the millennium, Beyoncé ruled the radio with singer Jay Z. The song Crazy in Love was her first single. Two years ago, British singer Harry Styles’ As It Was became the most popular song. She was successful not only in the summer – that’s it the most successful world song of 2022.

Summer Hits (US Billboard Summer Songs Chart, 1960-2023)

Source: Billboard

Last year, Morgan Wallen’s song Last Night was the hit of the summer according to Billboard’s weekly chart. Reactions were mixed, after all, for a long time there have been doubts in the music industry about the annual search for summer hit. Already in 2018, the American magazine Rolling Stone wrote “there is no song of the summer – and there never will be”.

The phrase “everyone is listening to this” no longer means what it did in the pre-internet era. Back then, almost everyone really listened to the same thing, explains Robert Thompson, an American educator and media scientist, to CNN.

But according to Thompson, people are still looking for that one summer song, just because they miss when everyone listened to the same thing and could share that experience. – division. “To some extent, we still want to deal with what is in the song of the summer because we continue to hope that something like that really exists,” he said.