Summer Songs: Playlist and Tunes For Your Summer Soundtrack

The best mix will have hot dance tracks to get your party on plus, cool pop classics and ballads for those breezy summer nights. Here, we've put together 20 of our top summer tunes. We start out strong with a few hot summer anthems, then sprinkle in a few fun 80's classics, cool things off with a few ballads and then end with up-tempo favorites everyone will love to sing along to. The total running time is 1 hour, 18 minutes and 13 seconds--perfect for road trips, lounging by the pool or play it at your next party.

To help you create your own personal summer soundtrack, weve pulled together a list of 20 of our favorite summertime tunes.

1. All Summer Long - Kid Rock
Best Line: "Sipping whiskey out the bottle, not thinking 'bout tomorrow/ Singing Sweet Home Alabama all summer long."

2. Boom Boom Pow - The Black Eyed Peas
Best Line: "I'm so 3008 and you so 2000 and late."

3. Summer Love - Justin Timberlake
Best Line: "The Summer's over for both of us, but that doesn't mean we should give up on love."

4. Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
Best Line: "I want to be the one to walk in the sun/Oh girls they want to have fun."

5. Boys of Summer - Don Henley
Best Line: "My love for you will still be strong/ After the boys of summer have gone."

6. I've Had the Time of My Life - Dirty Dancing Soundtrack
Best Line: "And I've searched through every open door/ Till I found the truth."

7. Summertime - D.J. Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince
Best Line: "...Put your car on cruise and just lay back cause this is summertime."

8. Cruel Summer - Bananarama
Best Line: "It's too hot to handle, so I gotta get up and go."

9. My Life Would Suck (Without You) - Kelly Clarkson
Best Line: "I'm so dysfunctional."

10. #41 - Dave Matthews Band
Best Line: "I'm only this far and only tomorrow leads my way."

11. Like a Virgin - Madonna
Best Line: "I made it through the wilderness...didn't know how lost I was until I found you."

12. Just Dance - Lady GaGa
Best Line: "I love this record baby but I can't see straight anymore."

13. Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
Best Line: "Big hands I know you're the one."

14. Little Red Corvette - Prince
Best Line: "I'm going to try to tame your little red love machine."

15. Crazy For You - Madonna
Best Line: "You're so close but still a world away."

16. Vacation - The Go-Go's
Best Line: "Tomorrow's a day of mine you won't be in."

17. Smooth - Rob Thomas and Carlos Santana
Best Line: "My mu equita, my Spanish Harlem Mona Lisa."

18. I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles
Best Line: "The way she looked was beyond compare/ so how could I dance with another?"

19. All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow
Best Line: "I like a good beer buzz early in the morning."

20. A Little Less Conversation (Re-mix) - Elvis Presley
Best Line: "Don't procrastinate, don't articulate."

You're favorite summer song not on here? Let us know in the comments section below!