Exclusive: Spotify's Songs of Summer in Huntsville

Driving the news: According to Spotify data, summer 2025 was the least danceable and lowest-energy summer for music in the last decade, based on the tempos, rhythm stability, beat strength, and overall regularity of its top tracks.

How it works: Spotify's editors handpicked a list of tracks based on streaming data, cultural impact and editorial insight that "collectively defined the season across the Northern Hemisphere."

• The audio streaming service shared market-level data exclusively with Axios.

Here's how the five tunes ranked in Huntsville:

1. "Back To Friends" by Sombr

• Sombr's monthly listeners soared from 8 million at the start of the year to over 53 million to date, following the release of this song.
• The indie rock artist currently has two songs in the Global Top 10.

2. "Ordinary" by Alex Warren

• Alex Warren's heartfelt love letter to his wife became the most-streamed song of the summer on Spotify.
• The ballad had its highest streaming peak on June 12, the day following the initial teaser of his single "On My Mind."

3. "Manchild" by Sabrina Carpenter

• Carpenter followed last summer's hit "Espresso" with this first single of her upcoming album "Man's Best Friend."
• The track spent 25 consecutive days at No. 1 on Spotify's U.S. Daily Top Songs.

4. "Love Me Not" by Ravyn Lenae

• Spotify says this standout song from her 2024 album "Bird's Eye" feels like "a hazy summer evening."
• The record hit its peak streaming day on July 18, the same week Lenae achieved her first Top 10 hit on Billboard Hot 100.

5. "Shake It To The Max (FLY) – Remix" by MOLIY, Silent Addy, Skillibeng & Shenseea

• This dancehall anthem charted in Spotify's Top 50 Chart in over 45 countries, including Belgium, France, Ghana, Jamaica, the Netherlands and Singapore, and reached #1 in Trinidad and Tobago.