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Summer Showdown: et. 6Bold Predictions Justin Bieber — singing on other artists' Radio and streaming pros name the tracks they're betting will achieve hits — will be the act to beat beach ubiquity — including the biggest sleeper The two early front-runners are "Despacito," the Luis Fonsi-Daddy Yankee smash that topped the BY JASON LIPSHUTZ Billboard Hot 100 after the 23-year-old superstar hopped on aremix, and "I'm the One," Di Khaled's No. 1posse cut that boasts aBieber hook. With an as-yet-unannounced collaboration with an EDM star expected in June, "it could very well be the summer of Bieber," says Erik Bradley, music director of WBBM-FM (B96) Chicago.

Diva Watch: Miley, Camila and Selena will thrive.., and don't count out Katy just yet

Tom Poleman, president of the national programming group at iHeartMedia, expects Camila Cabellos "Crying in the Club" and Selena The boys turned men For the first time in years, arock song Gomez's "Bad Liar" to connect at radio, and Miley Cyrus' will be major players will make asplash on pop radio "Malibu" has entered the top 10 Harry Styles' rock opus "Sign of the Times" hangs Four years after Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" of the Hot 100. Katy Perry's on in the top 20, while Mall Horan's sensual finished at No.2 on the 2013 Song of the Summer most recent singles haven't "Slow Hands" is rising; has been chart, the alt-rock group is back with the intense soared, but Poleman is performing his team-up "Just Hold On" singalong "Believer," which has spent nearly three hopeful her Witness album, at dance festivals. A new Zayn Malik album is months atop the Hot Rock Songs tally and is gaining out June 9, has some top 40 due this year, and Liam Payne's first solo track, the at top 40. "It has been building slowly, but we've always gems. "Katy has dominated rhythmic "Strip That Down" (featuring Guava), taken that approach," says frontman Dan Reynolds. pop culture," he says. "She's was released May 19. "It was such an edgy, "When it comes to bringing something to pop, it's capable of having ahit at any different song for me to do," says Payne, who co- about believing in the longevity of the song — making given moment." wrote the song with Ed Sheeran. something that doesn't wear on people's ears quickly."

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June 7 7WEEKS at No. 1 HIT ITS STRIDE? IGGY AZALEA Fanc 22 12 WEEKS at No. 1 Each year, Billboard's Song of the Summer ROBIN THICKE Blurred Lines chart tracks the most popular hits based 9WEEKS at No I CARLY RAE JEPSEN "C all Me Mo be" on cumulative performance on the weekly 6 WEEKS at No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 from Memorial Day LNIFAO r r through Labor Day. Curious when 2017's smash will join season-defining hits like July 11 The Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling," THE BLACK [P ED P Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" and last year's July 5 7VVEEKSatNo.1 KATY PEPP champ, Drake's "One Dance"? Take alook EKS atN Mr! 1 at when the past 10 Song of the Summer winners reigned on the Hot 100: Based IIMMMM on the data, if your hit is No. 1in late July, you've got agreat shot at the top spot.

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