Talk:Summer hit

As usual, I came across a redling while leisurely reading wikipedia; this time it was Super Bowl XXXI. I quickly noticed that the term is of an immense usage, yet surprizingly no wikipedia article. To a yet another surprize after trying really hard, I failed to find a scholar discourse on this summer consumer phenomenon, so the article was eventually created as a close to trivial stub. I guess, the reasons are, first, I once again waded into the area far form my expertise and second, since the term is so abuzz that it is very difficult to google something wikipedable despite my several attempts to narrow down the search by more keywords. Laudak (talk) 01:08, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

I am wary of trying to create another list, it can quickly become a stack of cruft, but having already said in the article that Summer Hits often come from outside the US and UK market, I can't see why we have only a US list. May I suggest, if anyone cares to create a less US-centric list, they include Dragostea din tei- a massive European and worldwide hit.

IceDragon64 (talk) 22:20, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Why is there a list of 25 hits from United States? That a country is considered the most representative of the world in any article doesn't seem right if there is not a really important reason that justifies it. We can have an article about the monarchy and put a list of 25 French kings and an example of 1 Spanish, 1 Danish and 1 Moroccan king, but I'm not sure that the English would agree.

To include some example, well, it's fine to understand the concept, but a list..., that's very, very subjective, especially if a country is absolutely overrepresented with respect to the rest of the world in an encyclopedia that is read all over the world.--Furado (talk) 18:37, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

• This article is a work in progress. You are welcome to add more examples.
  By the way, the US section is sourced mostly from the United Kingdom (from the BBC), and some songs listed there as examples weren't in fact that big in the US. Like "Mambo No. 5" and "Dragostea din tei", for example. So the list is more international than one might think. --Moscow Connection (talk) 10:17, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

If the list is more international than one might think, why one with a single country and small one with the rest of the world? To be in compliance with the Wikipedia policy WP:POV, there would have to be a single international section, or a section for each country, or an individual list by country.

On the other hand, add more examples is very complicated. Do we include 25 hits from each of the top 50 countries in the world, for example? (Look at the result if I include only those from France...) The issue is also complicated to define which is the song of the summer of each year. Many times different TV channels, radio stations, record companies, charts, etc. do not agree on which is the song of the summer and compete with each other to consider theirs. I believe that in an article like this one, lists should not be added, they would always be subjective and there will always be people who want to include those from their country, and in the country itself there will be no agreement on which one it is, which would make the list endless.--Furado (talk) 11:00, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

• I've said already that you're welcome to add more examples. The French Wikipedia list can't be used "as is" anyway cause it's almost completely unsourced. --Moscow Connection (talk) 11:25, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

WP:EXAMPLEFARM applied. As it stands, almost nothing is verifiable in this article. Toddst1 (talk) 22:30, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Would this be the place to talk about all those holiday hits you used to get in the 1980s/1990s/2000s whereby people would go on holiday, hear a tune in the nightclubs and discos of Spain and Italy (Whigfield, Los Del Rio etc), which then would become a big hit when everyone came back from their summer holidays? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.152.238.125 (talk) 11:21, 1 July 2021 (UTC)