Billboard: "California Gurls" is #1 summer song of all time
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The sun is shining, the beaches are crowded and the bodies are tanned, which can only mean one thing -- Summer 2011 is in full swing. To celebrate the return of our favorite season, we've scoured the Billboard chart archives and updated this definitive list of the most popular songs about summer ever recorded.
These 30 hot tunes with summer-specific themes are ranked based on each track's performance on the Billboard Hot 100 chart from August 4, 1958 -- the inception of the chart -- through the chart dated May 28, 2011. Songs are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at No. 100 earning the least. (For more details on how this chart was compiled, scroll to the bottom of this page.)
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1. California Gurls (feat. Snoop Dogg)
With an unabashedly synthy beat and breathy vocals about a "warm, wet and wild" place and the women you find there, how could Katy Perry's perfectly timed hit -- with a smooth assist from Snoop Dogg, not have been the top song of summer 2010? In fact the song was so huge, it leapt from No. 18 when we first published this chart in May 2010 to No. 1 just one year later, beating out over 50 years of other hot summer songs.
It's definitely the best summer song of the past 10 years. But of all time? I could think of 5 songs that are better suited for summer, including Last Friday Night
It's definitely the best summer song of the past 10 years. But of all time? I could think of 5 songs that are better suited for summer, including Last Friday Night
I was reading this thinking you'd list some classics, then I see "LFN". It's not even out yet. But both, IMO, are equally perfect Summer songs. Summer doesn't just have to be about partying/sex.
I was reading this thinking you'd list some classics, then I see "LFN". It's not even out yet. But both, IMO, are equally perfect Summer songs. Summer doesn't just have to be about partying/sex.
I could name many classics that I feel are more worthy of the "Best Summer Song of All time." Heartbreaker and Fantasy by Mariah Carey both feel more summery than California Gurls, although I love all 3 songs.
It's not even out yet. 
But both, IMO, are equally perfect Summer songs. Summer doesn't just have to be about partying/sex.
