Taylor Swift — Cruel Summer

After a 45-day absence, the Lover deep-cut-turned-single has returned to broad rotation, tracked across 76 country and platform charts today — squarely in time for the calendar reality its title describes. The reappearance lines up with The Summer I Turned Pretty, the Amazon Prime romance that has leaned on Swift's catalog as scoring; according to Mashable, the song featured in Season 1, part of an ongoing needle-drop strategy that has made the show a reliable engine for her back catalog each summer. Written with Jack Antonoff and St. Vincent, the synth-pop track was never released as a single until 2023, when the Eras Tour pushed streams up and sent it to number one on Billboard's Pop Airplay chart for two months, per Business Insider. Its annual June revival is now a recognizable pattern.