Song of the Summer: History, Favs and Predictions (with Billboard's Jason Lipshutz)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this week's B-Side episode, Executive Director of Music at Billboard Jason Lipshutz joins DJ Louie to discuss the Song of the Summer! Louie and Jason dig into the history of the concept and Billboard's SOTS Chart, discuss the most recent winners and what makes for the ideal Song of the Summer, whether having a SOTS can meaningfully change the trajectory of pop star's career, and then each name their favorite Songs of the Summer of all time.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pop Pantheon, the podcast where we completely overanalyze all of your favorite pop stars and then rank them in the official Pop Pantheon. |
| 0:18.3 | This is your host, DJ Louis X. Louis the 14th, and this is a B-side episode. Before we get |
| 0:24.2 | into this week's topic, I want to take care of a couple housekeeping things. First, gorgeous, |
| 0:30.4 | gorgeous. My new party in L.A. is happening on July 16th. That's a Saturday. If you are in the greater LA area, if you love pop |
| 0:40.0 | music, if you are a queer person or someone who loves queer people, please come out and enjoy |
| 0:45.8 | the party. The tickets are cheap and the link to buy them will be in the show notes of this |
| 0:52.3 | episode. I really hope to see you there and to meet some of you guys and to have a really fun night |
| 0:57.5 | together. |
| 0:58.0 | So gorgeous, gorgeous. |
| 0:59.8 | Saturday, July 16th, be there or be square. |
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| 1:50.4 | also in my bios and stories on instagram and i will also put them on twitter so this b-side episode |
| 1:58.6 | is about a timely topic, the song of summer. |
| 2:03.0 | We have one every summer. |
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