Songs of the Summer 2023: The Top Predictions From Spotify

From Lil Durk and J. Cole to Bad Bunny, Dua Lipa, and Calvin Harris, find out if your favorite summer banger made Spotify’s predictive honor roll.

It may as well be written in the US Constitution, or perhaps spray-stenciled on the back of it in margarita mix: when the mid-year dog days return, it becomes time once again to determine the elite tier of Songs of the Summer that capture the joyously carefree energy of these heady months.

And while not every year’s most popular warm-weather music ages well — 2013’s “Blurred Lines” will be studied and reckoned with by psychologists for a long time — the end of the school year and your thermometer’s mounting mercury have signaled that it’s time to think about anointing a new pantheon of tracks for 2023.

Fortunately, Spotify has already got a jump on things. Based on existing audience data and some predictive analytics, the streaming giant has already come in hot and humid with 20 picks it’s already backing as candidates for the Songs of the Summer honor roll by the time all’s said and done.

From cathartic hip-hop from Lil Durk, Aminé, and 21 Savage to breezy flourishes from the words of pop, Latin, and electronic, check out the full list below.

Songs of the Summer 2023: Spotify’s 20 Best Predictions

All-time Spotify artist rankings and streaming numbers (as a lead artist only) are via ChartMasters as of June 12, 2023. Data not necessarily available for every artist.

SONG	ARTIST	SPOTIFY ARTIST RANK	ARTIST STREAMS
“4EVA”	Aminé	512	2.889B
	KAYTRANADA	N/A	N/A
	Pharrell Williams	595	2.539B
“All My Life”	Lil Durk	254	5.098B
	J. Cole	37	17.256B
“Baby Don’t Hurt Me”	David Guetta	29	19.262B
	Anne-Marie	144	7.723B
	Coi Leray	N/A	N/A
“Calm Down”	Rema	837	1.884B
	Selena Gomez	52	14.636B
“Cruel Summer”	Taylor Swift	3	48.717B
“Cupid — Twin Ver.”	FIFTY FIFTY	N/A	N/A
“Dance the Night”	Dua Lipa	15	25.367B
“Ella Baila Sola”	Eslabon Armado	516	2.863B
	Peso Pluma	395	3.576B
“Fast Car”	Luke Combs	156	7.346B
“Favorite Song”	Toosii	N/A	N/A
“Last Night”	Morgan Wallen	106	8.932B
“Miracle”	Calvin Harris	28	19.936B
	Ellie Goulding	87	9.915B
“Moonlight”	Kali Uchis	369	3.851B
“Not Strong Enough”	boygenius	N/A	N/A
“Peaches & Eggplants”	Young Nudy	N/A	N/A
	21 Savage	65	12.276B
“Rhyme Dust”	MK	N/A	N/A
	Dom Dolla	N/A	N/A
“Unavailable”	Davido	N/A	N/A
	Musa Keys	N/A	N/A
“VAGABUNDO”	Sebastian Yatra	118	8.593B
	Manuel Turizo	174	6.725B
	Beéle	N/A	N/A
“What it Is (Solo Version)”	Doechii	N/A	N/A
“WHERE SHE GOES”	Bad Bunny	2	55.041B

So, did your top Song of the Summer pick make the list?

Blow us up on Instagram and Twitter @boardroom and let us know — and if you want to go deeper on Spotify streaming, don’t miss our rundown of the platform’s all-time most-streamed rappers.