--- title: President Barack Obama Drops Summer Playlist description: If you thought President Obama's 2015 summer playlist was good, just wait until you listen to this year's mix. canonical: https://time.com/4448402/president-barack-obama-summer-playlist/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-11T16:12:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:22.777Z og:title: President Barack Obama Just Dropped Your New Favorite Summer Playlist og:description: With artists from Jay Z to Aretha Franklin og:url: https://time.com/4448402/president-barack-obama-summer-playlist/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Barack Obama Just Dropped Your New Favorite Summer Playlist twitter:description: With artists from Jay Z to Aretha Franklin twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # President Barack Obama Just Dropped Your New Favorite Summer Playlist  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 11, 2016 4:12 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 11, 2016 4:12 PM UTC If you thought [President Obama’s](http://time.com/3998542/obama-summer-playlist-aoife-odonovan-lianne-la-havas/) [2015 summer playlist](http://time.com/3998311/barack-obama-spotify/) was good, just wait until you listen to this year’s mix. POTUS took to Twitter Thursday to reveal his new favorite songs for the hottest months of the year, including both a daytime and nighttime edition. Available on [the White House’s Spotify channel](https://play.spotify.com/user/thewhitehouse), the collection runs the gamut from dance-inducing classics such as [Prince’s “U Got the Look”](http://time.com/4359619/prince-birthday-anecdotes/) and the Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations” to current party hits like Jidenna’s “Classic Man” and Chance the Rapper’s “Acid Rain.” “Been waiting to drop this: summer playlist, the encore,” Obama tweeted. “What’s everybody listening to?” > [](https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/763744742072913920) Check out the full daytime playlist [here](https://play.spotify.com/user/thewhitehouse/playlist/2Zve7PqFSlGl0ojgGnhFTm) and the nighttime playlist [here](http://go.wh.gov/PlaylistNight). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4448402/president-barack-obama-summer-playlist/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4448402/president-barack-obama-summer-playlist/"},"headline":"President Barack Obama Just Dropped Your New Favorite Summer Playlist","datePublished":"2016-08-11T16:12:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:22.777Z","description":"With artists from Jay Z to Aretha Franklin","url":"https://time.com/4448402/president-barack-obama-summer-playlist/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Barack Obama","Music","President Barack Obama","President Obama"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4448402/president-barack-obama-summer-playlist/","name":"President Barack Obama Just Dropped Your New Favorite Summer Playlist"}}]}] ```