Taylor Swift reached No. 1 again. This time, it’s for a song she released four years earlier. “Cruel Summer” topped the Billboard charts this week — a song she had on “Lover,” which was released in ...

Swift originally released “Cruel Summer” on her 2019 album Lover. At the time, the pop star planned to release the song as a single along with “Lover,” “The Man,” “Me,” and “You Need to Calm Down.” ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- When rocker Eddie Cochran released "Summertime Blues" in August 1958, the concept of "the song of summer" was born. It had a catchy melody with a chugging beat and lyrics that ...

A combination of film-prompted streaming increases and the release of two fresh versions of the song goosed consumption at a possible do-or-die moment for the truly long-running hit. Taylor Swift fans ...

When Taylor Swift released Lover in the summer of 2019, Swifties quickly identified the surging synth-pop track “Cruel Summer” as the album’s most obvious hit. But the song was never released as a ...