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The song “Ordinary” by Alex Warren begins with a problem. “They say the holy water’s watered down, and this town’s lost its faith,” declares the singer, in a track that spent several weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 until recently. Where is he to find a transcendent experience, then, if not in his faith? He finds it in his wife; …

Where is this year’s song of the summer? It’s the question that’s haunted road trippers and pool partiers for months now. But like so many low-stakes mysteries, the answer has been hiding in plain sight (or, in this case, earshot) all along. If we’re going with cold, hard facts — Billboard chart data — there’s one song that’s dominated the …