These hot tunes are ranked based on each track’s performance on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the summer. Time-travel below through every year since the Hot 100 began with the top 10 hits each summer. OMI, for example, has charted one Hot 100 hit, but it was a big one: his sunny “Cheerleader” soundtracked the summer of 2015 and wrapped as that season’s biggest hit. Meanwhile, the right song at the right time has connected, regardless of the scope of an artist’s history.

Here’s the definitive list of the top 10 jams each summer that pumped out of your speakers most between Memorial Day and Labor Day.īeginning with the survey’s inception, summer songs have made for some of the most memorable hits in the Hot 100’s history, while many prominent artists have scored the top song of the summer, including Stevie Wonder, the Supremes and the Rolling Stones in the ‘60s Bee Gees, Eagles and Donna Summer (naturally) in the ‘70s Prince and Madonna in the ‘80s Mariah Carey and TLC in the ‘90s Usher and Beyoncé in the 2000s and Katy Perry, Drake and more since. In order to aid your festive flashbacks, we analyzed the Billboard Hot 100 chart each year dating back to the survey’s August 1958 launch. Hot weather and nostalgia make for a potent mix(tape).

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