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Song of the Summer Race Heats Up: Can Shaboozey or Kendrick Lamar Unseat Post Malone & Morgan Wallen?

Song of the Summer is getting tight between Post Malone & Morgan Wallen's "I Had Some Help," Shaboozey's "A Bar Song" & Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us"

This week, we take stock of the current Song of the Summer race, which is tighter this year than the past few, thanks to sparring smashes between Post Malone & Morgan Wallen, Shaboozey, Kendrick Lamar and Sabrina Carpenter. As radio airplay picked up for it at a blinding pace and its sales and streaming numbers stayed strong, it looked like it might follow the path of Wallen’s 2023 smash, “Last Night,” which both started and ended the season atop the Songs of the Summer chart, while reigning for four total months on the Hot 100. It debuted atop the (already very crowded) Hot 100 with an incomplete first week of tracking, thanks to otherworldly levels of excitement around it as the knockout punch in the increasingly fevered back-and-forth between Kendrick Lamar and rival-to-the-north Drake.

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