The first ten songs on Billboard's Hot 100 list are calm and surprisingly low-key, notes American CNN which wonders if the summer of 2025 will be completely without a summer hit? At least if you look at the new music.
Alex Warren's ballad "Ordinary" is at the top, which can hardly be counted as a happy party song, and even "pop prince" Justin Bieber sticks to low-key songs on his new album, far from the summer hit he participated in in 2017 - "Despacito".
Much of what has been released in 2025 is a bit downbeat, a bit energy-poor. It's good, but it's not something that spreads energy, says Mike Errico, songwriter at New York University's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, to CNN.
The state of the summer song is crisis-like, according to CNN, whose writer wonders if Sabrina Carpenter's new album at the end of August will change that?
