Summer hit

In the entertainment industry, a summer hit is a song that is released and peaks in its popularity during summer.[1] These songs rose in popularity during summer and thus classify as summer hits. In some years, a single pop song will gain widespread international popularity during the summer holiday season, becoming that summer's definitive summer hit in many countries. Many of the best-known summer hits emerge from outside the British and American pop music industries.

The equivalent of summer hit in France is the tube de l'été (summer tube), an expression that exists since 1960s which became more commercially used by the late 1990s.

Songs that are marketed to be summer hits are very common, and often feature an upbeat tempo and descriptions of things such as relaxation outdoors and beach parties. These are songs considered ideal listening during summer activities. These intentional summer hits are most common in country (particularly country pop) and mainstream popular music but are much less common in rock.

The opposite of a summer hit in the music industries of the Northern Hemisphere in the West would be a Christmas song, a category that usually incorporates general winter songs as well.

Examples in the US

Examples worldwide
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References
  1. "Les tubes de l'été: chansons cultes, des sixties au années 2000", ISBN 9782290353554(in French)
  2. "Summer Songs 1958-2017: The Top 10 Tunes of Each Summer". Billboard.
  3. Kot, Greg. "What makes the 'song of summer'?". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
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  6. Cross, Alan. "The hit of the summer is up to you". Metro. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
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  8. "Watch The Killers' Goofy Cover of Iggy Azalea's Summer Hit 'Fancy'". Retrieved 2015-07-31.
  9. Goodman, Jessica (September 7, 2016). "Song of the Summer 2016: Drake's One Dance takes the prize". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
  10. "Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber's 'Despacito' Is the No. 1 Song of the Summer". Billboard.
  11. "Best Summer Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. May 24, 2020.
  12. BillboardSummer Songs Chart
  13. Spotify.comSpotify's Most Streamed Songs of Summer 2019
  14. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (December 8, 2001). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 50–. ISSN 0006-2510.
  15. "Where's the summer fun?". The Guardian. 2006-08-03. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
  16. "Las canciones del verano en España desde 1970". Elle. 2019-07-25. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
  17. "«Яндекс.Музыка» назвал самые популярные песни в разных городах России" [Yandex.Music revealed the most popular songs in different Russian cities]. RBC. 2019-08-22. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
    "Названы самые популярные песни лета в Москве" [The most popular summer songs in Moscow are revealed]. RIA Novosti. 2019-08-22. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
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