“I Had Some Help” by Post Malone on July 4th at number 1 on Songs of the Summer

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What will be the No. 1 song of summer 2024? As of July 4, Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help” featuring Morgan Wallen continues to top the list. Billboard‘s songs of the summer charts.

The 20-position running Songs of the Summer count tracks the most popular titles based on cumulative performance on the weekly streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Billboard Hot 100 charts from Memorial Day to Labor Day (this year it includes the charts from June 8 to September 7). At the end of the season, the top song of the summer is announced.

“I Had Some Help” has topped the Songs of the Summer chart all five weeks since the survey began this season. It also tops the most recent Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs charts. Only one hit reached No. 1 status on the Songs of the Summer chart at the end of the season after topping both the Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs charts – Wallen’s “Last Night” last year.

“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” by Shaboozey lands at number 2 on the latest Songs of the Summer chart, followed in the top 5 by “Not Like Us” by Kendrick Lamar (number 3), “Million Dollar Baby” by Tommy Richman (number 4) and “Espresso” by Sabrina Carpenter (number 5).

Carpenter is the only act with two songs in the top 10 of Songs of the Summer: Her new single and first Hot 100 number one, “Please Please Please,” jumps from number 12 to number 9 on the sun-drenched list.

The latest entry on Songs of the Summer? “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan, which debuts at number 19.

Prior to “Last Night” in 2023, Harry Styles’ “As It Was” was the No. 1 hit on the 2022 season-ending Songs of the Summer chart, following BTS’ “Butter” at the top in 2021 and DaBaby’s “Rockstar” featuring Roddy Ricch at the top in 2020.

Check out the top 10 summer songs of every year in the history of the Hot 100 (since the chart’s launch in 1958), the top 500 best songs of summer of all time, and the first weekly list of this season’s songs of summer in their entirety.