The Official Top 40 Biggest Songs of 2023 so far

The top songs of the year so far including Miley Cyrus, RAYE, PinkPantheress and more
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Miley Cyrus’s Flowers retains its position as the biggest song of 2023 so far, Official Charts can confirm. 

The disco-influenced self-love anthem completed a 10-week stay at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart earlier this year, giving Miley her first UK chart-topper in nearly a decade. Flowers also helped Miley claim the coveted Official Chart Double, when its parent album Endless Summer Vacation debuted at Number 1 during Flowers’ reign. 

According to Official Charts Company data, Flowers has racked up a total of 1.2 million UK chart units since its release in January; with over 147 million streams and in excess of 80,000 downloads making it the most-streamed and most-downloaded song of the year so far. 

Flowers also claims the biggest week of any track in 2023, pushing a mammoth 126,000 chart units during its second week at Number 1. It went on to become the longest-running Number 1 single by a female artist this side of the decade in the process, equalling the epic 10-week chart-topping runs of Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You and Rihanna's Umbrella. 

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Holding steady at second place is RAYE and 070 Shake’s Escapism. The experimental, electronic banger became RAYE’s first ever UK Number 1 single in January, and has so far this year shifted over 850,000 chart units.  

 

Rounding out the Top 5 are SZA with Kill Bill (3), PinkPantheress’s viral anthem boy’s a liar (4) and Taylor Swift’s former chart-topper, Anti-Hero (5). 

Brand new in the year-to-date Top 10 is Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding’s third collaboration, trance banger Miracle (7). Enjoying eight weeks at the top of the Official Singles Chart, Miracle became Calvin’s 11th and Ellie’s fourth Number 1 single. It also helped Ellie enter the Official Charts record books as one of the British female solo artists with the most Number 1 singles ever

Two massive Afrobeats singles are enjoying a place in the year-to-date Top 10; Rema’s Number 3-peaking Calm Down (6) and Libianca’s People (8), which climbed all the way to Number 2 on the Official Singles Chart and spent 12 weeks at the top of the Official Afrobeats Chart.

 

TikTok’s influence on the Official Singles Chart continues, with some of 2023’s biggest songs having found new success via the video-sharing platform; for many, years after their initial release. Miguel’s Sure Thing, originally released in 2010 (10), David Guetta and Bebe Rexha’s I’m Good (Blue), which was originally demoed in 2017 (12) and The Weeknd’s 2016 cut Die For You (13) are all among the year’s biggest tracks to date. 

Other viral hits still making an impact this year include Meghan Trainor’s Made You Look (17), Lizzy McAlpine’s breakthrough chart entry Ceilings (18) and Coi Leray’s Players (22), which samples Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five’s The Message.

Further down, Ed Sheeran’s former Number 1 single Eyes Closed continues to resonate (23), as does Switch Disco & Ella Henderson’s slow-burning dance smash React (26). 

Up-and-coming US singer-songwriter David Kushner scored his first-ever UK Top 10 single earlier this year with haunting ballad Daylight; the track now named one of the biggest breakout hits of the year so far (28). 

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Sure to rise as the year goes on, Dave and Central Cee already make the year’s Top 40 to date with Sprinter (35). The track holds the distinction of acquiring 2023’s biggest first-week sales so far, accumulating 108,000 units during its first week of sale, and boasts the biggest week of streams for a rap song ever in UK Chart history, surpassing Stormzy’s 2019 hit Vossi Bop and Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road to take the title.  

Finally, Stephen Sanchez’s Until I Found You rounds off the list at Number 40. Originally blowing up on TikTok, Stephen got a big break recently as he was handpicked by Elton John to perform the track live during his Sunday headline set at Glastonbury. 

Official Top 40 Biggest Songs of 2023 so far

POS TITLE ARTIST PEAK
1 FLOWERS MILEY CYRUS 1
2 ESCAPISM RAYE FT 070 SHAKE 1
3 KILL BILL SZA 3
4 BOY'S A LIAR PINKPANTHERESS 2
5 ANTI-HERO TAYLOR SWIFT 1
6 CALM DOWN REMA 3
7 MIRACLE CALVIN HARRIS/ELLIE GOULDING 1
8 PEOPLE LIBIANCA 2
9 AS IT WAS HARRY STYLES 1
10 SURE THING MIGUEL 4
11 MESSY IN HEAVEN VENBEE & GODDARD 3
12 I'M GOOD (BLUE) DAVID GUETTA & BEBE REXHA 1
13 DIE FOR YOU WEEKND 3
14 CREEPIN' METRO BOOMIN/WEEKND/21 SAVAGE 7
15 UNHOLY SAM SMITH & KIM PETRAS 1
16 FORGET ME LEWIS CAPALDI 1
17 MADE YOU LOOK MEGHAN TRAINOR 2
18 CEILINGS LIZZY MCALPINE 6
19 I AIN'T WORRIED ONEREPUBLIC 3
20 GREEN GREEN GRASS GEORGE EZRA 3
21 10:35 TIESTO & TATE MCRAE 8
22 PLAYERS COI LERAY 7
23 EYES CLOSED ED SHEERAN 1
24 POINTLESS LEWIS CAPALDI 1
25 ANOTHER LOVE TOM ODELL 10
26 REACT SWITCH DISCO & ELLA HENDERSON 4
27 CUFF IT BEYONCE 5
28 DAYLIGHT DAVID KUSHNER 2
29 MISS YOU OLIVER TREE & ROBIN SCHULZ 3
30 B.O.T.A. (BADDEST OF THEM ALL) ELIZA ROSE/INTERPLANETARY 1
31 LET GO CENTRAL CEE 6
32 BAD HABITS ED SHEERAN 1
33 AFRAID TO FEEL LF SYSTEM 1
34 SOMEONE YOU LOVED LEWIS CAPALDI 1
35 SPRINTER DAVE & CENTRAL CEE 1
36 RED FLAGS MIMI WEBB 12
37 SHIVERS ED SHEERAN 1
38 MR BRIGHTSIDE KILLERS 10
39 US AGAINST THE WORLD STRANDZ 9
40 UNTIL I FOUND YOU STEPHEN SANCHEZ 14

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denisetenny

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I just looked up the most popular music in the United States.  It said Latin and K pop about 80% of streaming. Wow, not one on this list. Goes to show America's inclusiveness still has century's to go.


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oski_at_the_charts

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When it updates Sprinter will be a lot higher.

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THIERRY

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For once i really love the Top 4!! but surprised to see the beautiful DAYLIGHT only at number 28!! but at least the amazing MIMI made the list so i am happy!!

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🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜

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if flowers wasn’t a thing and everything moved up one, then that’d be the best year-end top 5 to date! especially raye and pinkpantheress/ice spice. amazing songs

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Piran

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Glad to see 'Escapism' in the runner-up position! 😊

Really deserved more than a week at the top...

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Blank

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If we take the remix version of Calm Down with Selena Gomez, there's not a single all-male act in the top 10!

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🧡 oliviasnoodles 🍜

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sure thing by miguel?

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Blank

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Missed that one. Being an 11 year old record, it means there are no current all-male acts with top 10 records. Which itself is quite amazing.

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HazDaSprinter

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Lots of Rap singles in the chart, Central Cee's Let Go, Metro Boomin's Creepin, Bugzy Malone's Out Of Nowhere, Chris Brown's Under The Influence, Strandz's Us Against The World and Stormzy's Hide & Seek. Good to see Rap getting a lot more recognition than it did last year, where D-Block Europe & Central Cee dominated.

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River

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I hope People can eventually find itself in the top 10

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Simon Alcaraz

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Yet another big mistake in the article. Celine Dion did not go anywhere near 10 weeks at number one with My Heart Will Go on, it was only 2 weeks.

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Bengy

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True.
Think Twice was no. 1 for 7 weeks.

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Nu No

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This is just a 3 months update... this will be very different in 3 months and a lot more different in 9 months!

Nice to see "Mr. Brightside"" by Killers at #40 - it's insane how this song is always here!

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Blank

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It's probably spent more weeks in the top 40 of the Year than it has in the top 40 of the week!
Just 6 weeks in the actual top 40.