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So when we talk about some of the names we started out with, Beyonce - she's been around for nearly 25 years. THOMPSON: He had a massive, massive, massive summer.īUSH: OK. If the metric you're using is the number of times I heard it playing out of car windows, it also qualifies.īAD BUNNY: (Singing in Spanish). If the metric you're using is streaming, he was enormous. THOMPSON: Bad Bunny put out an album called 'Un Verano Sin Ti' back in May, and its songs were just all over the streaming charts all summer long. I think it's definitely worth mentioning Bad Bunny. THOMPSON: So Jack Harlow is certainly an example of somebody who really broke through in 2022 and had a very, very big summer. HARLOW: (Rapping) They say you a superstar now. THOMPSON: That song had an enormous amount of staying power, in part due to radio airplay. JACK HARLOW: (Rapping) And I can put you in first class up in the sky. THOMPSON: Well, I wasn't necessarily expecting Jack Harlow's song 'First Class' to kind of climb as high in the charts as it did and stick around as long as it did. SUMMERS: So any other artists that come to mind who also had strong showings this summer that maybe surprised you? STYLES: (Singing) As it was, as it was, as it was. But I think I certainly underestimated the staying power of that song. THOMPSON: And I think that's kind of the song that we talked about a little bit earlier this summer.

HARRY STYLES: (Singing) In this world, it's just us. The most streamed song globally was 'As It Was' by Harry Styles. Thus showing that a song can have the longest imaginable tail and still have enormous cultural resonance years and years, decades later. THOMPSON: The most streamed song on Spotify in the summer of 2022 was 'Running Up That Hill' by Kate Bush from 1985.īUSH: (Singing) It's you and me. (SOUNDBITE OF KATE BUSH SONG, 'RUNNING UP THAT HILL') And I don't think you can necessarily slot the same song into all those spots. We could talk in sort of a more nebulous way about what kind of dominated the cultural conversation. We could talk about what topped the Billboard charts.

We could talk about what was streamed the most on Spotify. And there are different metrics at work here. THOMPSON: Well, I think, you know, it's in the eye of the beholder. Was there a clear winner? Who came out on top to you? They had weeks or even months or, in the case of Kate Bush, years of rollout before they kind of took off and became kind of defining songs of the summer. But it's important to note that song of the summer is a marathon, not a sprint. I mean, I certainly picked three songs that were massive hits in the summer of 2022. THOMPSON: Well, I think I mostly got it pretty right. So if you can fact-check yourself, what happened in music this summer? SUMMERS: Stephen Thompson is back now to chat about just how great his predictions were. SUMMERS: She had a whole album drop this summer.īEYONCE: (Singing) And I'm telling everybody, everybody. SUMMERS: And, of course, there is Beyonce.īEYONCE: (Singing) You won't break my soul. SUMMERS: That one is pretty self-explanatory. (SOUNDBITE OF LIZZO SONG, 'ABOUT DAMN TIME')

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SUMMERS: 'Running Up That Hill,' the 1980s song revived by the TV show 'Stranger Things.' KATE BUSH: (Singing) Be running up that road, be running up that hill. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, 'RUNNING UP THAT HILL') Well, some of those predictions probably sound pretty familiar by now. And back when this season started, we asked NPR's Stephen Thompson to predict which songs would be everywhere this summer. It's the last day of summer in many people's eyes, including mine.

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