The Songs of the Summer Chart Is Back: Who’ll Be No. 1 by Labor Day?

The annual summery summary is back, and already a few contenders have emerged.

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What will be the No. 1 song of the summer of 2025? We won’t know for about three months, but we’ve begun making our way toward the answer, as Billboard’s annual Songs of the Summer chart has returned this week to Billboard.com.

The 20-position Songs of the Summer running tally tracks the most popular titles based on cumulative performance on the weekly streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Billboard Hot 100 chart from Memorial Day through Labor Day (this year encompassing charts dated June 7 through Sept. 6, 2025). At the end of the season, the top song of the summer will be revealed.

Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” ranks at No. 1 on the season's initial Songs of the Summer chart. The track concurrently tops the Hot 100 for the first time.

Morgan Wallen boasts the next three songs on the inaugural 2025 Songs of the Summer chart — “What I Want,” featuring Tate McRae (No. 2), “Just in Case” (No. 3) and “I’m the Problem” (No. 4) — with Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” rounding out the top five.

Wallen claims eight songs on the Songs of the Summer chart — all from his new Billboard 200-topping album, I’m the Problem — the most by an artist in a single week, surpassing the six that Drake rang up on the June 6, 2018, survey. Wallen also holds four of the top 10, likewise a new weekly best, one-upping the three simultaneous top 10s that Drake logged for nine weeks in June-September 2018.

Wallen’s warm-weather wins continue, as Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help,” featuring Wallen, sizzled atop the season-ending 2024 Songs of the Summer chart, with Wallen’s “Last Night” the leading song for 2023. Harry Styles’ “As It Was” reigned in 2022, after BTS’ “Butter” led in 2021 and DaBaby’s “Rockstar,” featuring Roddy Ricch, ruled for 2020.

Note that titles that appeared on the 2024 Songs of the Summer chart or peaked on the Hot 100 during or before summer 2024 are ineligible to appear on this year’s Songs of the Summer ranking. So, the top 20 of the Hot 100 and Songs of the Summer charts dated June 7 don’t match, as six songs have been relegated to summer 2024 memories and will be absent from 2025 Songs of the Summer charts: “I Had Some Help”; Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”; Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control”; Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things”; Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather”; and Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso.” —Gary Trust

What songs do you most fondly recall from summers past? Check out the top 10 summer songs every year throughout the Hot 100’s history (from the chart’s start in 1958) and the top 500 Greatest of All Time Songs of the Summer, along with this season’s first weekly Songs of the Summer chart in its entirety.