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“Summer of Love” by The B-52's

From the album Bouncing Off the Satellites (1986)

“Summer of Love” by The B-52's appears on 24 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 1986 and 2014. It was first released in 1986 on the album Bouncing Off the Satellites. Its best result is #8 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 1986. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #18 alternative song of 1986, #904 alternative song of all time and #149 of the '80s.

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"Summer of Love" led off the B-52's fourth album, Bouncing Off the Satellites, as its first single in 1986, a breezy, shimmying slice of new wave with Kate Pierson, Fred Schneider, Keith Strickland, Cindy Wilson and Ricky Wilson sharing the songwriting credit. Tony Mansfield produced it, with extra production from Shep Pettibone, and the groove is built for the dance floor, which is exactly where it did best: it climbed to number 3 on Billboard's dance club chart, the band's highest showing there to that point. A 1985 demo later surfaced on the Time Capsule compilation, and a red 12-inch reissue arrived in 2017.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1986 32 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1986 107
1986 8 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1986 90

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1988 118 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1988) 496
1988 397 Live 105 Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988) 501
1989 37 91X 91X Top 191 Songs of the 1980s (1989) 191
1989 203 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1989) 495
1989 473 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1989) 500
1991 281 Live 105 Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1991) 302
1991 162 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1991) 500
1992 201 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1992) 500
1994 135 Live 105 Live 105 Revolutionary 500 (July 1994) 500
1994 362 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994) 500
1996 201 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1996) 500
1996 335 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1996) 498
1998 202 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1998) 488
2002 441 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 354 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) 2044
2007 1070 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1019 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1053 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1094 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1132 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1197 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1257 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013

Also listed as: Summero f Love; Summer Of Love.

Charting alongside it in 1986

Best songs of 1986 →
  1. 1PanicThe Smiths
  2. 2AskThe Smiths
  3. 3Bigmouth Strikes AgainThe Smiths
  4. 4SledgehammerPeter Gabriel
  5. 5Wild Wild LifeTalking Heads
  6. 6Don't Get Me WrongThe Pretenders

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