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 ...

Sabrina Carpenter posing for her ‘Manchild’ song cover. The song was released June 5, 2025. Photo by @sabrinacarpenter/Instagram. The “Song of the Summer” is ...

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 ...

Whenever I hear "Float On" by Modest Mouse, "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers or MGMT's "Kids" I'm immediately transported back to my summer days in the early 2000s. And rightly so — summer is usually ...