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No Song of the Summer In 2025 refers to memes and discourse about the lack of a definitive "song of the summer" in summer 2025. The discourse about there being no song of the summer in 2025 started as early as May 3rd, 2025, when X user @CoumbaR posted, "is anyone gonna address the fact we don’t have our summer song yet?" The discourse continued to grow over the next few months, going viral in July.

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A "song of the summer" is a commercially and culturally popular song that embodies positive, jumpy, summertime vibes. There is no officially designated song of the summer, resulting in many online debates each year about what the song of the summer is. For example, in 2024, Billboard^[1] named "I Had Some Help" by Post Malone the song of the summer, while Official Charts^[2] named "Espresso" by Sabrina Carpenter the song of the summer.

On May 3rd, 2025, X^[3] user @CoumbaR posted, "is anyone gonna address the fact we don’t have our summer song yet ?" garnering over 1,500 likes and 2,000 reposts in two months.

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On May 8th, 2025, TikToker^[4] @popsamcam posted a video claiming that there is no song of the summer in 2025. The video gained over 320,000 views in two months. This is the earliest known post about summer 2025 lacking a song of the summer.

On July 14th, TikToker^[5] @oh_hey_its_gabe posted a video begrudgingly claiming that the song of the summer is "Mystical Magical" by Benson Boone, garnering over 200,000 views in two weeks. On July 21st, The Guardian^[6] published a piece where their editors pick their songs of the summer, acknowledging that this year there "might not be a clear Espresso."

On July 28th, NPR^[7] published an episode of Pop Culture Happy Hour titled, "Is there a song of the summer in 2025?" On July 29th, X^[8] user @ posted a photo of Kayla Sims captioned, "how it feels to be halfway through the summer with no song of the summer," garnering over 16,000 likes in a day.

On July 30th, X^[9] user @RACH4_theSTARZ posted, "We don’t get a song of the summer this year because we were bad," garnering over 18,000 likes in under a day. Later that day, X^[10] user @theneedledrop, aka Anthony Fantano, posted "Is there a song of the summer?" garnering over 1,100 likes in under a day.

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