Drake — Summer Sixteen

A decade-old Drake single is broadly charting today, appearing across 132 country and platform charts as the "song of the summer" conversation circles back to its title. The New York Times framed the seasonal debate last week around whether Drake can reclaim the throne against country upstarts Ella Langley and Stella Lefty — and a track literally named for a summer, built on a "looking for revenge" hook, is a natural rallying point. Produced by 40, Boi-1da and Cubeatz, it premiered on OVO Sound Radio in early 2016 to promote Views, though it never made the album's final tracklist, per Wikipedia. Its diss-heavy verses — aimed at Kanye and Meek Mill then — read differently now against Drake's ongoing feud with Kendrick Lamar. The ten-year echo of the phrase is doing the work here.