Summer hit

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In the entertainment industry, a summer hit is a song that is released and peaks in its popularity during summer. [1] In some years, a single pop song will gain widespread international popularity during the summer season, becoming that summer's definitive summer hit in many countries. Many of the best-known summer hits emerge from outside the British and American pop music industries.

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The equivalent of summer hit in France is the tube de l'été (summer tube), an expression that exists since 1960s which became more commercially used by the late 1990s.

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References

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  2. "Summer Songs 1958–2017: The Top 10 Tunes of Each Summer". Billboard.
  3. Billboard Summer Songs Chart
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