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Songs of Summer 2025: Spotify's Global Editors Predicts the Anthems That Will Soundtrack the Season

20/05/2025

It's officially summer on Spotify and, once again, our team of best-in-class global music editors is revealing Spotify's Songs of Summer 2025 predictions for the Northern Hemisphere.

With a proven track record of predicting the summer's biggest songs, Spotify's editorial team blends cultural expertise, editorial instinct, and streaming data to curate our annual Songs of Summer list-cementing Spotify as the ultimate destination for summer listening.

This summer's hottest tracks capture many musical movements across regions and styles, and the 30 initial picks from our editors represent a little bit of everything.

2025 GLOBAL SONGS OF SUMMER PREDICTIONS Listed alphabetically by artist first name

Ordinary Alex Warren

NUEVAYoL Bad Bunny

Super by Bb trickz

Mystical Magical Benson Boone

All The Way BigXthaPlug and Bailey Zimmerman

party 4 u Charli xcx

My Darling Chella

With You Davido and Omah Lay

NOKIA Drake

YA BABA DYSTINCT and French Montana

Running Around Ely Oaks

Summer Sweat Hannah Cohen

like JENNIE JENNIE

Blue Strips Jessie Murph

Gnarly KATSEYE

How Bad Do U Want Me Lady Gaga

MUTT Leon Thomas

Dark Thoughts Lil Tecca

What Was That Lorde

Shake It To The Max (FLY) Remix MOLIY, Silent Addy, Skillibeng, and Shenseea

Say My Name Remix Morgan Seatree and Florence + The Machine

What I Want Morgan Wallen and Tate McRae

You'll Be in My Heart Spotify Singles NIKI

Love Me Not Ravyn Lenae

Sally, When The Wine Runs Out ROLE MODEL

back to friends sombr

No One Noticed The Mar as

Brunette Tucker Wetmore

La Plena W Sound 05 W Sound, Be le, and Ovy On The Drums

Show Me Love (with Tyla) WizTheMc, bees & honey and Tyla

The biggest trends shaping this year's Songs of Summer As these hits promise to heat up the summer, our editors are seeing a number of trends unfold, including:

Global spread of Afro-fusion: Songs like Show Me Love by WizTheMc, bees & honey, and Tyla-which fuses electronic, Afrobeats and R&B-and YA BABA by DYSTINCT and French Montana-which blends Moroccan Arabic with French- are boiling over across Africa, Europe, and the United States.

Summer of lovestruck pop: It wouldn't be summer without pop, and our top picks this year include lovestruck, lyric-driven tracks by breakout artists like Ordinary by Alex Warren, Blue Strips by Jessie Murph, and back to friends by sombr.

High-BPM rave picks up the pace: Dance BPMs continue to rise with high-speed garage, house, and rave hits like Running Around by Ely Oaksand Say My Name Remix by Morgan Seatree and Florence + The Machine.

Soundtracking a hazy, chilled-out summer: On the other hand, hazy, chill sounds are having a moment, too. No One Noticed by The Mar as, You'll Be in My Heart Spotify Singles by NIKI, Love Me Not by Ravyn Lenae, and Summer Sweat by Hannah Cohen all invoke the mood for watching a perfect sunset with friends on a hot summer evening.

Country collabs on deck: Collaborations are always big, but country is especially pushing the boundaries of the genre with Morgan Wallen teaming up with Tate McRae on What I Want, and BigXthaPlug finding his way to country with a little help from Bailey Zimmerman on All The Way.

Our editors will be watching (and listening) all summer long as new music drops, unexpected hits take off, and the listening landscape evolves-so, be on the lookout for updates to our list here and across Spotify News social channels.

Listen to all our editors' picks in the 2025 Songs of Summer playlist:
LINK: https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-05-20/songs-of-summer-2025-spotifys-...
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