A curated list of the songs currently shaping the sound of Summer 2026 across pop, hip-hop, global collaborations, and viral ...

There is always one song that defines summertime for each person. The Globe staff share their go-to summer songs and the warm ...

You’re a kid again, somewhere in the late ’70s or ’80s, and summer has settled into its rhythm. But the best part is the ...

It hit 80 degrees today in the nation’s capital. The cherry blossoms have come and gone, and my neighbor put the top down on his Mustang. Yep – it may still technically be ten weeks away, but Summer ...

There's something about a summer song that means every time you hear it — 10, 20, even (ahem) many more years later — it all ...

Spring is here, but as the warm weather arrives far more slowly than I’d like, I’ve found my thoughts drifting back to the brash, joyful days of Brat summer 2024—that moment of shared monocultural ...

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 ...

On “Illegal,” PinkPantheress’ sugariest hit to date, the singer/producer cleverly compares the time-warping headrush of getting overly fried to navigating a situationship at the height of its passion ...

Summer is a special time. It’s the backdrop to many of our favorite memories—an instant nostalgia factory we feel the effects of every time the weather turns warm. Musicians love to sing about summer ...

Can this really be the song of the summer? For seven weeks now, the most popular tune in the country has been Alex Warren’s “Ordinary”—a solemn ballad that has all of the warm-weather appropriateness ...