Alex Warren rules summer 2025, breaks chart records

Alex Warren’s ‘Ordinary’ dominated summer 2025, topping Billboard’s Songs of the Summer chart every single week.

Alex Warren has secured his biggest career milestone yet, with his hit single Ordinary crowned the official No. 1 song of summer 2025. The track ruled Billboard’s Songs of the Summer chart from start to finish, holding the top spot for all 14 weeks of the seasonal tally.

The chart measures performance across streaming, sales and airplay between Memorial Day and Labor Day. For this year, that meant a run from early June through the first week of September. Ordinary not only claimed the seasonal crown but also enjoyed a lengthy reign on the Billboard Hot 100, where it spent 10 weeks at No. 1, marking Warren’s first-ever chart leader.

This feat continues a trend of dominant singles monopolising the summer soundtrack. In previous years, Post Malone’s I Had Some Help with Morgan Wallen took the 2024 crown, Wallen’s Last Night led in 2023, Harry Styles’ As It Was dominated 2022, and BTS’ Butter was the soundtrack of 2021.

Wallen still made history this year despite losing the top spot. He placed three songs in the top five of the Songs of the Summer list, the first time any artist has achieved that. His tracks What I Want, Just in Case and I’m the Problem followed Warren’s leader, making him an unavoidable force yet again.

Elsewhere in the top 10, Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s Luther landed at No. 5, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ duet Die With a Smile ranked at No. 6, while Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters breakout hit Golden by HUNTR/X, EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI charted at No. 7. Sabrina Carpenter’s Manchild, Chappell Roan’s viral Pink Pony Club and Ravyn Lenae’s Love Me Not also made the cut.

For Warren, the success of Ordinary signals a breakthrough moment, placing him alongside pop heavyweights and confirming that his summer anthem struck a universal chord with listeners worldwide.