As August progresses and summer slowly comes to an end, the discourse around 2025's song of the summer questions whether this year's pool of new music comes anywhere close to last year's. This is an incredibly valid question when you remember how spoiled we were in and before summer 2024.

Charli XCX's Brat set the tone for an entire summer aesthetic. Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso" finally launched her into pop superstardom alongside "Please Please Please" and the entirety of Short n' Sweet , while rising stars like Chappell Roan and Addison Rae made their mark with "Good Luck Babe" and "Diet Pepsi."

Now, with summer almost over, the same magic that saw the rise of some of pop's biggest names isn't reaching the same high . The Billboard charts continue to be dominated by m

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