Few songs have become as closely associated with their respective eras as Creedence Clearwater Revival’s famous roots rock protest song, “Fortunate Son”. Released in 1969, this clear and loud ...

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 ...

In the mood for some feel-good rock songs from the 1960s? So much warm, fuzzy, sunshine-y music came out that decade, both in and out of the psychedelia movement. If you were young in the 1960s, you ...

Move over King Kenny Chesney, there’s a new queen of summer songs in country music. This list of the 10 best country songs for summer 2025 includes one or two summer love songs, an accidental ...

As the temperature outside heats up, so does the chatter around the “song of the summer” — the unofficial name for the track that becomes inescapable between Memorial Day and Labor Day. The song of ...

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When rocker Eddie Cochran released “Summertime Blues” in August 1958, the concept of “the song of summer” was born. It had a catchy melody with a chugging beat and lyrics that anyone whose summer wasn ...

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 ...

Since Eddie Cochran released “Summertime Blues” in 1958, songs that capture the essence of summer have frequently become hits during the warm months of surf and sand, romances new and old, and the ...

Since Eddie Cochran released “Summertime Blues” in 1958, songs that capture the essence of summer have frequently become hits during the warm months of surf and sand, romances new and old, and the ...