ATRL - Celeb News: "California Gurls" deemed Top Summer Song of All Time

Allie · 5:06 PM

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The sun is shining, the beaches are crowded and the bodies are tanned, which can only mean one thing -- Summer 2012 is in full swing. To celebrate the return of our favorite season, we've scoured the Billboard chart archives and updated this definitive list of the most popular songs about summer ever recorded.

These 30 hot tunes with summer-specific themes are ranked based on each track's performance on the Billboard Hot 100 chart from August 4, 1958 -- the inception of the chart -- through the chart dated May 26, 2012. Songs are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at No. 100 earning the least. (For more details on how this chart was compiled, scroll to the bottom of this page.)

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1. California Gurls - Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg (2010)
With an unabashedly synthy beat and breathy vocals about a "warm, wet and wild" place and the women you find there, how could Katy Perry's perfectly timed hit -- with a smooth assist from Snoop Dogg, not have been the top song of summer 2010? In fact the song was so huge, it leapt from No. 18 when we first published this chart in May 2010 to No. 1 just one year later, beating out over 50 years of other hot summer songs.

Stan, Billboard.

DvnR · , 4:54 PM

I think you mean most successful on Billboard's charts.

Remixed · , 4:55 PM

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Originally posted by DvnR

I think you mean most successful on Billboard's charts.

+1, they just based it off chart ranking!

Space Renegade · , 4:55 PM

did they lie?

i said it when it first came out that its the best summer song EVER.

MikeFenty · , 4:56 PM

TheGeoKing · , 4:56 PM

on the charts.

Jennifer · , 4:56 PM

It's an awesome song. My 2nd fav from Katy.

Allie · , 4:57 PM

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Originally posted by DvnR

I think you mean most successful on Billboard's charts.

Sure, either way it still tops...

Mr.Marvelous · , 4:58 PM

It's a good song, but not the best summer song.

DvnR · , 5:00 PM

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Originally posted by Allie

Sure, either way it still tops...

That's not the "Best" though. Just the "Top" Summer Song of All Time. The thread title is misleading. It implies that Billboard actually used quality analysis to determine the winner when it is not the case.

Calypso · , 5:01 PM

I thought it was the old article.

The Queen.

Allie · , 5:02 PM

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Originally posted by DvnR

the "Top" Summer Song of All Time.

Fixed

Flashing Lights · , 5:03 PM

Based on chart success obviously.

DvnR · , 5:03 PM

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Originally posted by Allie

Fixed

Much better.

Schoolin' Life · , 5:04 PM

Congrats to Katy

Fresh Prince @ #7

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7
Summertime
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
1991

CaptainMusic · , 5:05 PM

I don't agree but it's a good song. It gets too much hate on here imo.

Giacobbe · , 5:05 PM

Haters stay pressed that their fav isn't on top

castrobabytiger · , 5:06 PM

please don't start

Because I've seen a ot of ppl (especially kats) say they hate Cali gurl

I love the song and think its great but to see everyone praising it now is annoying

Rico Shameless v2 · , 5:06 PM

Why is everyone saying "based on chart performance"? Is that not obvious? It even says it in the OP. Some ****ing people.

Anyway this was my **** Summer 2010, though I'm a little disgusted at how much I did enjoy it, now, because it's a fairly mess of a song.

But congrats Katy!

KatyPerryPowns · , 5:07 PM

Hahaha, YES!!!!!!!!