Do you ever actually look at the Billboard charts? On the album side, you find some surprises—in recent weeks, Sleep Token, Ateez, and Brandon Lake shot into the Top Ten. But on the singles side, other than Sabrina Carpenter’s undeniable “Manchild,” things are mostly frozen—how is it possible that “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” “Lose Control,” and (good lord) “Die with a Smile” are still running things?

None of the fine range of releases below is looking at that kind of dominance—the best any of the singles Lorde put out ahead of her new album did was Number 36 for “What Was That” and as good as Addison Rae’s album is, it plummeted from Number 4 to Number 39 in a week. But from psychedelic hip-hop to cranky folk, from 20-something to damn near 80, from Sheffield to New Zealand, there was a whole lot of music to enjoy as spring turned to summer.