{"id":15628,"date":"2023-06-19T12:21:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T11:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15628"},"modified":"2023-09-12T15:13:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T14:13:03","slug":"the-best-songs-of-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/06\/19\/the-best-songs-of-the-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"The best songs of the summer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nothing says summertime like relaxing in the sunshine whilst listening to top summer anthems! So let\u2019s take a look at some of our favourite songs of the summer and find out if any of yours made our list.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>In this blog:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#Summertime\">Summertime<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Waterfalls\">Waterfalls<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#I-Gotta-Feeling\">I Gotta Feeling<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Party-Rock-Anthem\">Party Rock Anthem\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Fancy\">Fancy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Despacito-Remix\">Despacito Remix\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"Summertime\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Summertime<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It isn\u2019t officially summer until you\u2019ve heard <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Summertime<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by The Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff! It\u2019s a staple for any BBQ and is certainly one that will get everyone in a good mood and dancing along.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Released in May 1991, over 20 years later, it\u2019s still played on radio stations and is many 90s babies&#8217; favourite summer banger. It is loved by many and back in 2013, Rolling Stone magazine gave <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Summerime<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the number 9 spot in its list of the Best Summer Songs of All Time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Summertime\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/20XdEFyaUR9C7aDIdq2OAd?si=aa13017227c94f46&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"Waterfalls\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Waterfalls<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 90s hit <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Waterfalls<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by TLC has become an extremely popular summer song and takes the 26th spot in Billboard\u2019s Greatest of All Time Songs of the Summer\u2026 we can\u2019t argue with that!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Waterfalls<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was nominated for two Grammys in 1996, including Record of the Year and Best Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has since been ranked in the 100 Greatest Songs of the Past 25 Years by VH1 and featured in Billboard\u2019s 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s just say it\u2019s definitely on our summer playlist, each and every year!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Waterfalls\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/6qspW4YKycviDFjHBOaqUY?si=570b5d4c7d994d88&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"I-Gotta-Feeling\" style=\"text-align: center;\">I Gotta Feeling<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Black Eyed Peas dominated the 2000s and early 2010s charts, releasing banger after banger and they did not disappoint with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I Gotta Feeling<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bringing us a mixture of pop and dance, it\u2019s the perfect throwback summer song! <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I Gotta Feeling<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was released in June 2009 from the album E.N.D and spent 14 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019ve not heard it in a while, we definitely recommend adding it to your playlist this summer!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: I Gotta Feeling\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/4kLLWz7srcuLKA7Et40PQR?si=833e6a1600db4e02&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"Party-Rock-Anthem\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Party Rock Anthem<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Released by LMFAO in January 2011, it\u2019s safe to say we all knew about <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Party Rocky Anthem<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the end of the summer! It was completely different to what we had heard before, which set the trend for 2010s music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Needless to say, it became a global success! Billboard has ranked the single as the seventh most successful song of all time and it spent an incredible 68 weeks in the charts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still loved over 10 years later, we can\u2019t help but turn the volume up when we hear it on the radio!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Party Rock Anthem\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/1ve0SgTZkv3wdggJLqtBYU?si=6fa7bd2fed2346ba&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"Fancy\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Fancy<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back in 2014, rapper Iggy Azalea and British artist Charlie XCX joined forces and gave us the extremely catchy <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fancy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Clueless-style video was the cherry on top and it ended up being the most-watched music video on Vevo of 2014!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was just the collab we needed and even Billboard named <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fancy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the song of the summer and it went on to win an award in the Top Rap Song category at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though it was released at the start of the year, everyone knew the words to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fancy <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">off by heart by the end of summer and guilty, we\u2019re one of them!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Fancy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/16uGgkuyTqneR0gbNWohNz?si=e32fea468a4743d8&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"Despacito-Remix\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Despacito-Remix<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you don\u2019t remember <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despacito<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> being played across the country, where even were you in the summer of 2017? This song is just what we needed and as if we didn\u2019t love the original version enough, the remix version is even better!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Despacito remix by Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee ft Justin Bieber has won a ton of Billboard awards, as well as the original Despacitio track.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is definitely a song that gets everyone up on their feet!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Despacito - Remix\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/1vnnXMrBeEWiRg3YCMCjQq?si=af239b5f2fb244b2&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are just so many summer songs to choose from, we\u2019re spoilt for choice! So throw it back to your favourite summer tunes by shopping<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/store\/music\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> pre-owned CDs<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/store\/category\/music\/vinyl\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">buy Vinyl<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for less at the musicMagpie Store!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Plus, if you&#8217;re also looking for your next phone, you&#8217;re in the right place! Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/store\/mobile-phones\">refurbished phones<\/a> for way less than new, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/store\/category\/mobile-phones\/apple\/\">refurbished iPhone<\/a> models.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing says summertime like relaxing in the sunshine whilst listening to top summer anthems! So let\u2019s take a look at some of our favourite songs of the summer and find out if any of yours made our list. In this blog: Summertime Waterfalls I Gotta Feeling Party Rock Anthem\u00a0 Fancy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":15671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15628"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16022,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15628\/revisions\/16022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}