Guardian Writers Share Their 2026 Songs of the Summer Picks

‘A sublime, breezy confection’: writers on their 2026 songs of the summer

The annual rundown of Guardian writers picking their most played tracks of the season goes from club-ready pop to sunny tech house Check out a Spotify playlist of the choices Kim Petras’ greatest song to date is also the best outsider country song in recent memory: if Ethel Cain and Lana Del Rey could ever put the beef behind them and duet, the dusty gutter romance of Jeep is exactly how you’d want it to sound. The song creates a flyover state love story in a strangely effective union of hy...

By Owen Myers, Emma Madden,Laura Snapes, Jessie Doris, Jayson Buford, Lydia Wei, Jim Farber, Kate Hutchinson,Benjamin Lee, Alaina Demopoulos, Michelle Hyun Kim, Stefanie Fernández and Harry Tafoya