Summer is for road trips, and you can't have a proper road trip without music! Music can also help your driver stay awake (probably the most important thing). Playlists can vary depending on the group you're traveling with, but some songs really belong on every road trip playlist. To give you a head start, I've come up with fifty songs that MUST go on your "Summer 2018 Road Trip Playlist". So open up Spotify and start creating a playlist, pronto.
1. "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by The Proclaimers
"But I would walk 500 miles / And I would walk 500 more / Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles / To fall down at your door"
2. "Cecilia And The Satellite" by Andrew McMahon
"Don't be afraid Cecilia / I'm the satellite / And you're the sky"
3. "Saturday Sun" by Vance Joy
"Don't care what it costs / No ray of sunlight's ever lost"
4. "Budapest" by George Ezra
"And baby if you hold me / Then all of this will go away"
5. "Little Talks" by Of Monsters and Men
"Though the truth may vary / This ship will carry our bodies safe to shore"
6. "Havana" by Camila Cabello
"Half of my heart is in Havana"
7. "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond
"Good times never seemed so good / I'd be inclined / To believe they never would"
8. "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
"Is this the real life?"
9. "Greek Tragedy" by The Wombats
"My character's strong but my head is loose"
10. "I Lived" by One Republic
"Hope when you take that jump / You don't fear the fall"
11. "All We Know" by The Chainsmokers
"We're falling apart, still we hold together / We've passed the end, so we chase forever"
12. "Celeste" by Ezra Vine
"You're something out of a dream"
13. "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey
"Hold on to that feeling"
14. "Dog Days Are Over" by Florence + The Machine
"Happiness, hit her like a train on a track / Coming towards her, stuck still no turning back"
15. "Mess Is Mine" by Vance Joy
"This mess was yours, / Now your mess is mine"
16. "Kryptonite" by 3 Doors Down
"If I go crazy then will you still / Call me Superman?"
17. "Fire and the Flood" by Vance Joy
"You're the fire and the flood / And I'll always feel you in my blood"
18. "If It's Love" by Train
"If it's love / And we decide that it's forever / No one else could do it better"
19. "Hooked on a Feeling" by Blue Suede
"Girl, you just don't realize / What you do to me"
20. "Waves" by Dean Lewis
"It comes and goes in waves / It always does"
21. "Hold Back The River" by James Bay
"Hold back the river, so I / Can stop for a minute and be by your side"
22. "Let's Hurt Tonight" by OneRepublic
"Don't walk away, don't roll your eyes / They say love is pain, well darling, let's hurt tonight"
23. "Send Me On My Way" by Rusted Root
"I may see you, I may tell you to run / You know what they say about the young"
24. "With Or Without" You by U2
"Through the storm we reach the shore / You give it all but I want more"
25. "Drink Up" by Train
"Can't let this moment slip away / 'Cause things like this don't happen to us everyday"
26. "Down Under" by Men At Work
"Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? / You better run, you better take cover"
27. "Check Yes, Juliet" by We The Kings
"Run, baby, run / Don't ever look back / They'll tear us apart / If you give them the chance"
28. "Love Like This" by Kodaline
"We're running around and around / Like nothing else could matter in our life"
29. "Africa" by Toto
"It's gonna take a lot to take me away from you / There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do"
30. "Castle on the Hill" by Ed Sheeran
"And I miss the way you make me feel, and it's real / We watched the sunset over the castle on the hill"
31. "Jenny" by The Maine
"Everything is going to be alright / You're so young and still so free"
32. "Cruise" by Florida Georgia Line
"You make me wanna roll my windows down and cruise"
33. "Shotgun Rider" by Tim McGraw
"I don't ever wanna wake up / Lookin' into someone else's eyes"
34. "Smile" by Mikky Ekko
"Smile, the worst is yet to come / We'll be lucky if we ever see the sun"
35. "What I Like About" You by The Romantics
"What I like about you, you really know how to dance"
36. "Super Far" by LANY
"Waking up to nothing when you're super far from home / And I watch you fall asleep at night and lay there on my own"
37. "Gone, Gone, Gone" by Phillip Phillips
"When life leaves you high and dry / I'll be at your door tonight if you need help, if you need help / I'll shut down the city lights, / I'll lie, cheat, I'll beg and bribe to make you well, to make you well"
38. "Galway Girl" by Ed Sheeran
"Kissed her on the neck and then I took her by the hand / Said, 'baby, I just want to dance' / With my pretty little Galway girl"
39. "High" by Young Rising Sons
"Just let it go enjoy the ride / Without the low there ain't a high"
40. "Back To You" by Selena Gomez
"You're stuck in my head and I can't get you out of it / If I could do it all again / I know I'd go back to you"