PANDORA PREDICTS SUMMER SIZZLERS

Pandora has taken a stab at predicting the jams that will be the soundtrack to summer 2016 by using Pandora and Next Big Sound data-trajectory of station adds, spins and thumbs, along with input from Pandora's musicologists.

To kick off the Memorial Day weekend, here’s the streaming service’s first Songs of Summer 2016 Mixtape.

Desiigner “Panda” (G.O.O.D./Def Jam)

Drake f/Wizkid & Kyla “One Dance” (YMCMB/Republic)

Rihanna “Needed Me” (Westbury Road/Roc Nation)

The Chainsmokers f/Daya “Don't Let Me Down” (Disruptor/Columbia)

Meghan Trainor “No” (Epic)

Grace f/G-Eazy “You Don't Own Me” (Regime Music Societe/RCA)

Justin Timberlake “Can't Stop The Feeling!” (RCA)

Twenty One Pilots “Ride” (Fueled by Ramen)

Calvin Harris f/Rihanna “This Is What You Came For” (Columbia)

Justin Bieber “Company” (Def Jam)

Zhu “Working For It” (Mind of a Genius/Columbia)

Nick Jonas f/Tove Lo “Close” (Island)

ZAYN “Like I Would” (RCA)

Timeflies “Once in a While” (Epic)

Flume f/Tove Lo “Say It” (Mom + Pop)

You'll note that Desiigner, Flume and Grace were featured in our recent New & Developing Artists spread. In other Pandora summer news, SVP Pandora Music Makers Group Lars Murray is already horribly sunburned.