Formula V, King Africa, Georgie Dann, Shakira, Chayanne, Ricky Martin or Sonia and Selena They have been authentic musical phenomena of the summer. Decades ago, every June, we eagerly awaited the radio or compilations to present us with those hymns that were going to accompany us in the coming months.

With the rise of Internet, This phenomenon has changed: now it is streaming platforms and networks that set the trend. “If we upload videos to a social network like TikTok with a song, we are launching it to a global audience of billions of people,” explains Mike Platinas, DJ and producer of the famous Max Mix compilations.

Social networks have become trendsetters and media such as radio now turn to them to see what the audience wants to hear “we find that they even recover old songs like Beginning of Manneskin“, explains Rocío Sanz, announcer of Europa FM.

If the summer repertoire has something in common, it seems to be that they are easy lyrics. “The message is not very deep“, jokes Rocío, “and of course in Spanish, English is not our forte”, so that we can sing them. Mike Platinas adds that they pick up the summer theme: “Beach, night, party… dance“. He also points to one of his great superpowers: “It gets embedded in your head, it gets into your subconscious so that you end up singing it and you don’t really know why and in the end it generates a beautiful network of memories that is our imaginary collective”.

Although the summer song, as such, could have its days numbered. “They’re not so seasonal anymore, now Vicco pulls out Nocturna in November and it can be the song of winter, spring, summer…”. In addition, with the arrival of Latin music and reggaeton in style, it seems that we are clinging to that summer sound like a burning nail since any season “maybe we look for an eternal summer in those more Latin rhythms even from winter and that is the key to why they have broken records in recent years”, explains Rocío.

The list of hits is as extensive as it is varied, which is why we have taken to the streets and have collected in the playlist that accompanies these lines what our summers sound like.