As the kids go back to school its time to review what we’ve been listening to the past few months.

Let’s start with the slow burn on 3Oh!3‘s ‘Don’t Trust Me’. This song took 6 months to catch on. This song betrays 3Oh!3‘s album ‘Want‘ electronica hip hop base. But it makes for a great single. While its slow burn didn’t let it last through the summer, other tracks like ‘Starrstukk’ and ‘Colorado Sunrise’ offer a chance to recapture that summer heat.

Still coming up is Flo Rida‘s ‘Jump’ featuring Nelly Furtado. From Flo Rida‘s ‘R.O.O.T.S (Route Of Overcoming The Struggle)‘, which has already spawned the ‘Sugar‘, ‘Shone‘ and ‘Right Round‘, this to help leverage Nelly Furtado’s spanish album ‘Mi Plan.’ ‘Jump‘ is probably the best song on Flo Rida’s album and sure to bring the kids to the floor this fall.

Pitbull’s follow-up hit ‘Hotel Room Service‘ comes in six month’s after his ‘Krazy.’ With samples from ‘Krazy‘ and other hits (not necessarily their own), ‘Hotel Room Service‘ is making it worth staying inside and enjoy the heat from the floor.

Lady Gaga provided smoke last summer with ‘Just Dance‘ as the lead off single for her first album “The Fame.” The winner streak continue with Lady Gaga‘s monotoned delivery of “Mum mum mum mah, P-p-p-poker face” on ‘Pokerface‘ with its sizzling rhythm. Even as ‘Pokerface‘ powered up the chart, ‘LoveGame‘ was waiting to bubble onto the dance floor like hot lava.

Officially released July 7th, it didn’t take long for Sean Kingston‘s ‘Fire Burning‘ to become the most downloaded song of the summer from his yet to be released album “Tomorrow.” No matter who calls 911, “that little shawty’s fire burning on the dance floor,” and Sean Kingston has no intentions on putting out that fire.

My personal favorite Summer Hottie is Black Eyed Peas‘ ‘I Gotta Feeling.’ I’ve been a fan since 2003’s “Elephunk” and was looking forward to “The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies)” but was a bit disappointed with ‘Boom Boom Boom.’ ‘I Gotta Feeling‘ is classic will. i. am rock soul pop hit. Being used to promote NBC’s fall lineup of shows, it doesn’t detract from this iconic pop morsel.