Songs of Summer 2025: Spotify’s Global Editors Predicts the Anthems That Will Soundtrack the Season
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 Marías
- “Brunette” – Tucker Wetmore
- “La Plena – W Sound 05” – W Sound, Beéle, 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 Marías, “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:
