Songs of the summer

Songs of the summer 2025: From Sabrina Carpenter to the Rolling Stones — and plenty of Philly, too

Our ultimate streaming playlist for the summer of 2025 includes bangers, breezy pop, and low-key gems from Sabrina Carpenter, Bad Bunny, Lorde, Haim, SZA, Philly artists, and more.

Songs of the summer

What makes a great song of the summer? Is it an up-tempo pop banger? Something with an earworm chorus?

The Songs of Summer

Nature blessed my boyhood summers with music. Cicadas’ rising-falling singsong gave days rhythm. Katydids chimed in evenings with a nightshift song backed by cricket twitter. The call of a whip-poor-will drifted through the night. Rain frog trills lifted my spirits…

The British Vogue Team On Their Songs Of The Summer

From PinkPantheress to Amaarae and Lorde, these are the tracks we’ve had on rotation all summer at Vogue HQ.