This year’s Memorial Day weekend soundtrack might be dated.

Radio DJs and music tastemakers are placing bets on which new hot track will be crowned “song of the summer,” played at barbecues, pool parties and on windows-down car trips. But the charts this year have been full of songs released months or even years ago.

This post first appeared on wsj.com

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