News Summary

• Summer’s here, and the time is right, for ranking songs in the streets.
• Song titles that directly mention summer will be favored, though explicitness is not a requirement.
• We are only in the middle of July but it seems unlikely — based on the raw numbers — that any song will threaten “Ordinary” for “song of the summer” status for 2025.
• I’m also leaving off one of my personal all-time songs to hear in the summertime, “Right Down The Line” by Gerry Rafferty.