The Best and Worst Summer Hits

[Huntress]

I'm sure you all remember the awful "Macarena" from 1996.

What other summer hits do you still like to listen to or have never liked at all?

In Europe, we have had annoying summer hits which were popular all across the continent every year. Usually these acts only had one global hit.

Some examples:

Loona / "Bailando" (1998)

http://youtu.be/Yrp7BOipBLc

ATC / "Around the World" (2000)

http://youtu.be/ck6t1AckeAc

Las Ketchup / "The Ketchup Song" (2000)

http://youtu.be/h5D5N8TgBFw

Two versions of the same song charted at the same time:

O-Zone / "Dragostea din tei" (2004)

http://youtu.be/Z4xc3dXDE5I

Haiduccii / "Dragostea din tei" (2004)

http://youtu.be/VE_syWN2L4g

I've always liked the Haiduccii version better and still listen to it once in a while.

[Huntress]

Some more...

Wes / "Alane" (1998)

http://youtu.be/kKpRpDIrJJU

That one was played so much that year... the video is still wtf for me.

Juanes / "La Camisa Negra" (2005)

http://youtu.be/kRt2sRyup6A

I loathe this one.

Monrose / "Hot Summer" (2007)

http://youtu.be/GDbUqDGGtl8

Emiliana Torrini / "Jungle Drum" (2009)

http://youtu.be/iZ9vkd7Rp-g

Alexandra Stan / "Mr. Saxobeat" (2011)

http://youtu.be/jKsUMQF6tMg

[DRW50]

Did that annoying Aerosmith song ("Don't Wanna Miss a Thing") come out in the summer?

[EricMontreal22]

I think so as it was attached to Armageddon (I think?) which was a Summer blockbuster.

I forgot all about ATC. I saw them at a club in Montreal, quite awful

[Huntress]

ATC... ugh, where to begin. The guys were not attractive, the main singer had such a fake smile, and their music sounded awfully cheap even for Eurodance standards. After "Around the World" they had five more singles charting on the German Top 100, but luckily they disbanded after their second album had flopped.

Some more:

Kaoma / "Lambada" (1989)

This is a classic and timeless tune.

http://youtu.be/i8mz9uOvFQA

Tarkan / "Simarik" (1998)

The first Turkish artist to gain mainstream attention in Europe.

http://youtu.be/s0HuEvYNJNk

Bellini / "Samba de Janeiro" (1997)

http://youtu.be/3h3idmczJZM

Outlandish / "Aicha" (2003)

http://youtu.be/f0nFTdKlKLw

Alizee / "Moi... Lolita" (2001)

http://youtu.be/nUh6gYm_1eE

[I Am A Swede]

Some big summer hits here in Sweden:

1992: Inner Circle - Sweat (a lalalala long)

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2006: Basshunter - Boten Anna

2000: Mel C - I Turn To You

1994: Nordman - Vandraren

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhv_UB-8Lw4

[EricMontreal22]

AH I love the dance mix of Northern Sun--that was actually a pretty strong album with a lot of good Rick Nowels writing/producing.

I did hear some of ATC's other songs (only the first one was a hit here) and remember them sounding virtually the same.

I LOVE Moi...Lolita and both of Alizee's first two albums which of course were written and produced by the brilliant Mylene Farmer and her producer/co-writer Lauent Bouttonant who discovered her.

[I Am A Swede]

I've never heard Loona's version of "Bailando" before. That song was a monumental summer hit here, but with Paradisio in 1997, and that version is (in my opinion) much better.

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[Huntress]

Ah.... "Boten Anna". Yeah, that was a Top 10 hit in Germany as well. Strangely enough, the original Swedish version charted in 2006 and peaked at #9, while the revamped English version charted a year later, but failed to reach the Top 10.

I never knew there was another version of "Bailando".

[JackPeyton]

Best summer hit ever-

Seriously. Dont test me, SON. 

[Shawn]

I loved this song. It's such a shame that the lead singer died.

Mel C's I Turn To You was HUGE the summer it came out. It played at every club I went to on an hourly rotation. People went nuts for it every time.

[All My Shadows]

Basically anything released for summer 1999 or summer 2007.