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Posted by: k👠th 20th January 2024, 08:03 AM

All 53 of last year's Multicharts have been compiled, so it's time to count down and find out Buzzjack's OFFICIAL favorite songs of the year!

This EOY is compiled in a points-based format based on the weekly Multichart: the #1 each week gets 75 points, the #75 gets 1 point, and so on. You can use that to have an idea of which songs will do well here. Any guesses, hopes, predictions?

#75 through #71 will be posted shortly! Until then, here's how the Year-End Multichart looked in 2022:



BuzzJack Multichart of 2022: Recap

1 1555 Harry Styles - As It Was
2 1483 Lizzo - About Damn Time
3 1432 Harry Styles - Late Night Talking
4 1350 David Guetta, Becky Hill & Ella Henderson - Crazy What Love Can Do
5 1329 Sam Ryder - SPACE MAN
6 1295 Rina Sawayama - This Hell
7 1282 Lizzo - 2 Be Loved (Am I Ready)
8 1223 Tiësto & Ava Max - The Motto
9 1218 Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal - B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All)
10 1216 Jax Jones feat. MNEK - Where Did You Go?

11 1197 David Guetta & Bebe Rexha - I'm Good (Blue)
12 1190 LF SYSTEM - Afraid To Feel
13 1185 Beyoncé - BREAK MY SOUL
14 1177 Tate McRae - she's all i wanna be
15 1140 Elton John & Britney Spears - Hold Me Closer
16 1104 Nicki Minaj - Super Freaky Girl
17 1090 Steve Lacy - Bad Habit
18 1078 Cornelia Jakobs - Hold Me Closer
19 1068 Nathan Dawe feat. Ella Henderson - 21 Reasons
20 1060 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

21 1048 GAYLE - abcdefu
22 1028 Ava Max - Maybe You're The Problem
23 1027 Griff & Sigrid - Head On Fire
24 1019 Charli XCX feat. Rina Sawayama - Beg For You
25 994 Sophie Ellis Bextor & Wuh Oh - Hypnotized
26 993 Tove Lo - 2 Die 4
27 979 Latto & Mariah Carey feat. DJ Khaled - Big Energy
28 968 Jessie Ware Free Yourself
29 963 George Ezra - Green Green Grass
30 960 Adele - Oh My God

31 936 Camila Cabello feat. Ed Sheeran - Bam Bam
32 935 Sam Smith - Unholy
33 932 Tove Lo - No One Dies From Love
34 894 Beyoncé - CUFF IT
35 888 Purple Disco Machine feat. Sophie and the Giants - In The Dark
36 859 Tiësto & Charli XCX - Hot In It
37 822 Years and Years & Galantis - Sweet Talker
38 821 Charli XCX - Used To Know Me
39 817 Sigala & Talia Mar - Stay The Night
40 807 Rina Sawayama - Hold The Girl

41 789 Becky Hill & Galantis - Run
42 785 Charlie Puth - Light Switch
43 779 Carolina Gaitan & The Encanto Cast - We Don't Talk About Bruno
44 767 Alesso & Katy Perry - When I'm Gone
45 760 Megan Thee Stallion & Dua Lipa - Sweetest Pie
46 758 Anne-Marie & Aitch  - PSYCHO
47 755 Regard & Years and Years - Hallucination
48 736 George Ezra - Anyone For You (Tiger Lily)
49 732 Shawn Mendes - When You're Gone
50 726 Luude & Mattafix - Big City Life
51 723 Lewis Capaldi - Forget Me
52 718 The Weeknd - Sacrifice
53 713 Sigala - Melody
54 688 Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa & Young Thug - Potion
55 681 Ellie Goulding feat. Big Sean - Easy Lover
56 681 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero
57 673 Joji - Glimpse Of Us
58 666 ROSALÍA - DESPECHÁ
59 664 Ava Max - Million Dollar Baby
60 655 Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz - Miss You
61 653 Joel Corry & Becky Hill - HISTORY
62 639 Lady Gaga - Hold My Hand
63 636 James Hype & Miggy Dela Rosa - Ferrari
64 633 Florence + The Machine - My Love
65 633 Jack Harlow - First Class
66 626 Luude feat. Colin Hay - Down Under
67 622 ACRAZE feat. Cherish - Do It To It
68 619 Tom Grennan - Remind Me
69 616 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Wolf
70 613 Tom Grennan - All These Nights
71 604 Calvin Harris, Justin Timberlake, Halsey & Pharrell - Stay With Me
72 599 Joel Corry & Tom Grennan - Lionheart (Fearless)
73 597 Mimi Webb - House On Fire
74 594 Doja Cat - Vegas
75 592 Mabel & 24kGoldn - Overthinking

Posted by: jimwatts 20th January 2024, 08:28 AM

Excited for this, especially as I've contributed to every week's multichart! Buzzing to have helped MRD to 4 points by this scoring system *.* I hope Peggy is nice and high, top 5 feels like a stretch but maybe?

Posted by: k👠th 20th January 2024, 09:14 AM

71 619 Loreen - Is It Love (27-20-12-16-16-12-10-14-20-30-40-...) [11 wks]
72 610 Rita Ora - You Only Love Me (14-13-15-12-10-10-16-16-25-38-57-xx) [11 wks]
73 607 Sam Smith - I'm Not Here To Make Friends (19-10-10-10-12-15-19-26-35-50-64-50-61-xx) [13 wks]
74 595 Purple Disco Machine, Duke Dumont & Nothing But Thieves - Something On My Mind (29-23-24-22-15-24-22-22-27-33-37-53-62-xx) [13 wks]
75 590 Maisie Peters - Body Better (48-53-58-33-29-46-42-29-32-22-18-28-21-40-51-xx) [15 wks]

Maisie Peters kicks off the countdown with 'Body Better' which became her 3rd top 20 hit on the Multichart following 'Psycho' and 'Cate's Brother'. It was a bit of a slow burner, taking 11 weeks to peak at number 18. At 74, we have a slightly random collab between Purple Disco Machine, Duke Dumont and Nothing But Thieves. And there's a trio of number 10 hits in this section, including an unfriendly Sam Smith track, and Rita Ora's autoplay smash 'You Only Love Me'. Loreen's follow-up to 'Tattoo' was criticized for being too brief and failed to capitalize on the singer's Eurovision momentum, although it did manage to sneak a week in the Multichart top 10 after her UK tour.

Posted by: JosephChalamet 22nd January 2024, 08:16 PM

Rita sneaking in *.*

Posted by: Riser 23rd January 2024, 02:59 AM

66 652 Ava Max - Dancing's Done (38-32-19-17-23-17-18-20-25-26-41-46-70-xx-56-55-61-xx) [16 wks]
67 645 Issey Cross - Bittersweet Goodbye (71-43-39-29-31-27-27-31-32-39-49-52-40-30-29-40-44-70-xx) [18 wks]
68 636 David Kushner - Daylight (55-12-8-11-7-11-21-24-30-44-43-53-56-53-xx) [14 wks]
69 632 Latto feat. LU KALA - Lottery (36-31-21-21-15-15-13-15-16-24-34-44-73-74-xx) [14 wks]
70 627 Leigh-Anne - Don't Say Love (8-7-8-8-9-12-18-24-30-41-45-75-xx) [12 wks]

Little Mix's Leigh-Anne had one of the highest debuts of the year with her first solo release 'Don't Say Love'; perhaps surprisingly it only peaked at #7 after such a strong start. Latto followed up 'Big Energy' with the nearly self-titled 'Lottery', ironically peaking at unlucky #13. Holding true to David Kushner's own lyrics, his hit 'Daylight' was a song Buzzjack loved and hated at the same time, but the love was enough for #68 in the EOY. Two slow-burning singles round out this section, Issey Cross' Verve-sampling 'Bittersweet Goodbye' and 'Dancing's Done' by Ava Max, her first of two appearances this year.

Posted by: k👠th 23rd January 2024, 07:23 PM

61 675 Alok & Ava Max - Car Keys (Ayla) (44-47-41-35-46-29-24-19-22-34-30-35-37-38-42-45-56-69-xx) [18 wks]
62 660 P!nk - Never Gonna Not Dance Again (...-7-5-6-6-15-29-24-25-20-25-39-51-xx) [12 wks]
63 659 Jonas Brothers - Waffle House (66-47-24-21-23-22-18-14-17-19-26-39-40-51-54-xx) [15 wks]
64 659 Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice & Aqua - Barbie World (70-66-38-29-15-13-11-13-12-17-21-31-42-49-55-75-xx) [16 wks]
65 658 Selena Gomez - Single Soon (16-13-11-9-5-11-13-19-24-31-45-65-70-74-xx) [14 wks]

Bilingual singer Selena Gomez made headlines for many short-lived social media breaks and naming a song 'Single Soon'. 90s group Aqua returned in the unlikely form of a 1:49-long pop rap track by Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice. The Album by the Jonas Brothers spawned the Multichart hit 'Waffle House' which according to them isn't about a restaurant but "coming together with the people you love and making your dreams come true". P!nk gave soccer moms a mouthful to sing along to with top 5 hit 'Never Gonna Not Dance Again', and Ava Max's Alok collab 'Car Keys' reminded us of when https://gagadaily.com/forums/topic/381971-the-weakest-link-contestant-says-ava-max-is-an-electric-car/

Posted by: RobBot 25th January 2024, 04:44 PM

I like to think I played my part in Is It Love sneaking in x

G'won @ Dancing Done, banger.

Posted by: Riser 26th January 2024, 10:56 PM

56 719 David Guetta, Anne-Marie & Coi Leray - Baby Don't Hurt Me (31-51-28-21-12-16-17-24-25-35-33-29-32-41-44-66-xx-68-xx) [17 wks]
57 711 The Killers - Your Side of Town (39-23-22-21-21-10-9-9-12-14-22-34-41-xx) [13 wks]
58 710 Taylor Swift - I Can See You (Taylor's Version) (33-14-14-11-12-12-13-15-20-27-32-38-45-68-xx) [14 wks]
59 691 Miley Cyrus - River (26-11-10-9-8-6-6-11-16-28-44-54-70-74-xx) [14 wks]
60 686 Romy - The Sea (26-18-21-30-25-22-21-17-26-35-32-44-41-47-49-xx) [15 wks]

Romy of The xx is finally releasing solo music and has been rewarded with some lengthy chart runs on the Multichart, as 'The Sea' makes the EOY despite a #17 peak! Miley's 'River' spent most of its time in the shadow of 'Flowers', but manages a #6 peak and #59 here. Taylor Swift released more Taylor's Versions in 2023 and 'I Can See You' proved to be one of the highlights from Speak Now. The Killers took a very 80s turn with 'Your Side Of Town' and it worked, their first Multichart top 10 since 'The Man' in 2017! And David Guetta utterly ruined a Haddaway classic, but enough of you liked 'Baby Don't Hurt Me' for a #12 peak, better than it fared officially in the UK.

Posted by: Jade 26th January 2024, 11:03 PM

'River' and 'The Sea' next to each other *.* that's a really good section on the whole.

Posted by: k👠th 28th January 2024, 07:07 AM

51 775 Caroline Polachek - Welcome To My Island (...-10-9-7-9-6-9-14-16-17-32-33-53-55-xx) [13 wks]
52 773 Tove Lo - I like u (38-20-20-23-17-15-17-18-22-22-26-38-41-50-59-55-51-63-xx) [18 wks]
53 771 Miley Cyrus - Jaded (58-51-61-65-50-50-50-45-37-22-17-23-22-24-18-24-30-32-38-46-63-xx) [21 wks]
54 760 Charli XCX - Speed Drive (51-52-30-22-15-13-11-10-10-14-16-25-34-41-69-67-67-61-xx) [18 wks]
55 748 The Weeknd & Ariana Grande - Die For You (22-17-12-10-9-10-12-10-9-9-23-37-60-xx) [13 wks]

The Weeknd's deep cut 'Die For You' rose to prominence 7 years later thanks to TikTok and enlisting Ariana Grande for another remix. Charli XCX gave the Barbie soundtrack a 3rd top 10 hit with the 'Mickey'-interpolating 'Speed Drive'. Miley's 'Jaded' didn't reach the same heights as preceding singles 'Flowers' and 'River', but finishes ahead of 'River' here in spite of that, after charting for an impressive 21 weeks. Tove Lo, who had a strong showing on the previous EOY, has another appearance this time with the stone cold bop 'I like u' which got an unlikely remix from former Spicey Girl Melanie C. And perhaps most pleasingly, Buzzjack AOTY winner Caroline Polachek got her first top 10 hit with 'Welcome To My Island', "a song for the headless angels".

Posted by: JosephChalamet 28th January 2024, 07:15 PM

Lottery, Barbie World, Single Soon and Speed Drive

Posted by: Jade 28th January 2024, 07:29 PM

Great to see some Caroline Polachek appreciation 'Welcome To My Island' really increased my excitement for this era.

'I like u' was a bop as ever from Tove and 'Die For You' grew on me a bit post-remix, albeit not as good as 'Save Your Tears'.

Posted by: Brer 29th January 2024, 02:36 AM

Caroline kwenning with the 2022 song of the year x

That 57-60 section really ate too.

Posted by: Riser 31st January 2024, 05:26 AM

46 833 Jessie Ware - Pearls (17-8-5-4-4-5-5-8-9-9-20-22-45-70-xx) [14 wks]
47 823 Becky Hill & Chase & Status - Disconnect (25-17-14-10-8-8-9-11-15-19-28-31-44-48-50-56-xx) [16 wks]
48 799 Troye Sivan - One Of Your Girls (10-2-2-1-2-2-2-2-3-5-6-...) [11 wks]
49 791 Tiësto feat. Tate McRae - 10:35 (...-13-8-9-7-8-7-9-13-14-18-29-31-39-xx-68-xx) [14 wks]
50 779 Tyla - Water (73-72-17-13-10-8-4-5-6-7-11-13-20-26-...) [14 wks]

The UK and Buzzjack agree that Tyla's breakthrough single 'Water' is a hit! #4 peak on both charts, but #50 on our EOY while it doesn't make the UK's. Tiësto was on a streak of exactly one hit per year, this time his featured vocalist was Tate McRae. Unfortunately '10:35' failed to chart at #10 or #35. As for the second South African-born artist in this section (what are the odds!), Troye Sivan finally earned his first Multi #1! 'One Of Your Girls' was lucky to sneak that week at the top before a certain Dua Lipa took over. Becky Hill found a dance act she hadn't collborated with yet, and Chase & Status helped her make 'Disconnect' her biggest success in a while. Jessie Ware rounds out this section with the #4 'Pearls' but she'll have at least one more after this.

Posted by: k👠th 2nd February 2024, 04:20 AM

41 867 Kylie Minogue - Hold On To Now (41-15-14-11-15-16-11-9-7-8-8-11-17-14-...) [14 wks]
42 854 Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves - I Remember Everything (29-23-29-23-27-19-15-18-21-30-27-26-21-24-27-43-41-...) [17 wks]
43 846 Libianca - People (75-37-34-32-25-29-30-31-21-16-13-8-16-21-30-25-45-55-62-xx-69-xx) [20 wks]
44 845 Jessie Ware - Begin Again (54-23-6-7-10-9-9-10-12-21-27-25-24-33-40-61-xx) [16 wks]
45 841 Troye Sivan - Got Me Started (17-5-5-5-5-6-6-12-15-18-21-28-35-45-...) [14 wks]

Troye Sivan gets this section started with his 2nd top 5 hit of the Something to Give Each Other era. It spent a month at the #5 position and samples 'Shooting Star' by Bag Raiders. Jessie Ware's 'Begin Again' became the 3rd top 10 hit from her That! Feels Good! album, made all the more impressive as it did this during the Eurovision chart invasion. Former The Voice contestant Libianca's 'People' became one of the biggest Afrobeats crossover hits of the year, while Zach Bryan and Kacey Musgraves' 'I Remember Everything' was one of 2023's biggest country crossover hits. Buzzjack fave Kylie's 'Hold On To Now' just misses out on making the EOY top 40. The synthpop tune didn't quite reach number one like 'Padam Padam' and 'Tension' but it did have a very strong top 20 chart run since the Tension album release.

Posted by: Riser 6th February 2024, 04:29 AM

36 889 Taylor Swift - Lavender Haze (...-43-27-14-7-5-4-6-7-8-13-18-19-26-27-45-58-xx) [16 wks]
37 882 Niall Horan - Heaven (19-14-6-8-9-8-7-7-8-10-15-18-29-36-64-xx) [15 wks]
38 878 Hannah Laing & RoRo - Good Love (61-45-18-15-11-11-10-8-9-10-14-15-18-28-32-48-61-xx) [17 wks]
39 876 Zara Larsson & David Guetta - On My Love (41-30-29-22-21-19-10-10-10-8-9-10-9-16-20-...) [15 wks]
40 869 Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha (57-48-48-49-58-62-73-27-5-4-2-3-3-4-5-10-21-32-64-xx) [19 wks]

The Multichart mirrored the Eurovision results for a week with Käärijä's 'Cha Cha Cha' at #2 behind Loreen. It benefits from charting several weeks before Eurovision as the song's hype started early - and deservedly so! Despite a late September release, Zara Larsson's 'On My Love' earns enough Multichart points to sneak into the top 40. Scottish DJ Hannah Laing had a hell of a breakthrough with 'Good Love', peaking at #8 here and one place higher in the official chart. We learned that Buzzjack still supports One Direction members not named Harry Styles, as Niall Horan returned with 'Heaven' and spent two months in the top 10. And at #36 is Taylor Swift's 'Lavender Haze', the first song to appear from Midnights but surely not the last

Posted by: RobBot 6th February 2024, 03:09 PM

Cha Cha Cha

Posted by: k👠th 6th February 2024, 08:02 PM

31 948 Coi Leray - Players (59-45-39-13-11-12-13-11-11-15-25-20-18-17-18-22-29-47-71-xx) [19 wks]
32 938 Nathan Dawe, Joel Corry & Ella Henderson - 0800 HEAVEN (29-9-8-5-5-6-7-8-9-10-14-19-28-33-40-48-xx) [16 wks]
33 927 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero (...-2-2-2-2-3-4-8-11-15-16-28-35-44-64-48-46-53-62-72-xx) [19 wks]
34 927 Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For? (37-13-6-4-2-1-1-2-3-5-11-18-26-36-48-xx) [15 wks]
35 891 Olivia Rodrigo - get him back! (28-15-7-6-8-8-9-18-20-17-21-24-29-49-28-38-...) [16 wks]

Olivia Rodrigo's pop-punk single 'get him back!' became her 6th Multichart top 10 hit, amounting an even longer chart run than that of previous chart topper 'bad idea right?'. At 34 we have Billie's 'What Was I Made For?' which may have been the only Barbie single to top the Multichart, but its relatively brief chart run puts it below 'Dance The Night' here. Bemoaners of Taylor overexposure won't be pleased to see 'Anti-Hero' make the EOY for a 2nd year in a row. Chart company take piss stick chart sun don’t shine. Kings of generic dance Nathan Dawe and Joel Corry collided via telephone on top 5 hit '0800 HEAVEN'. And Coi Leray's Grandmaster Flash-sampling 'Players' is the highest song in the countdown that didn't peak in the top 10 with an unlucky 3 non-consecutive weeks at 11. Dedicated to women being "players", the track even found itself on the 6 Music playlist at one point.

Posted by: Riser 11th February 2024, 01:26 PM

26 993 Billy Gillies feat. Hannah Boleyn - DNA (Loving You) (52-34-28-16-19-12-12-11-5-7-7-9-13-12-16-21-25-...) [17 wks]
27 991 Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Desire (9-8-6-3-2-3-5-6-9-12-11-22-29-23-38-41-74-xx) [17 wks]
28 981 Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage - Creepin' (75-29-12-11-9-10-12-14-18-17-19-25-27-29-34-37-34-38-56-56-62-67-xx) [22 wks]
29 966 FIFTY FIFTY - Cupid (33-26-19-8-15-13-14-13-10-14-13-18-20-23-27-42-45-xx-49-xx) [18 wks]
30 966 Taylor Swift feat. Ice Spice - Karma (...-67-68-xx-62-63-31-8-7-6-4-5-9-11-13-16-17-16-19-22-34-xx) [19 wks]

'Karma', Taylor's third single from Midnights, matched the #4 peak of 'Lavender Haze'. The Ice Spice feature had mixed reactions, but it was probably worth it just for "facts". The highest K-Pop entry goes not to BLACKPINK, BTS or any of its members, but to FIFTY FIFTY with 'Cupid', possibly the only girl group hit of the year too! From "facts" to "rinky dink", we have The Weeknd and friends covering 'I Don't Wanna Know' and getting a solid hit, although not quite as big on the Multichart. Calvin & Sam almost had a second Multi #1 together, after 'Promises' five years ago, but 'Desire' fell just one place short. Last but not least, 'DNA (Loving You)' has had a great run here so far and lands at #26 on the EOY.

Posted by: Jade 11th February 2024, 01:36 PM

'One Of Your Girls', 'Cha Cha Cha', 'Anti-Hero' and 'What Was I Made For?' were all #1s for me, with 'I Remember Everything' a #2 also, good to see them all in the top 50 <3

Posted by: k👠th 14th February 2024, 08:15 PM

21 1017 Mimi Webb - Red Flags (20-18-6-5-5-5-6-7-10-20-27-39-30-31-27-31-36-47-57-xx) [19 wks]
22 1011 Tate McRae - greedy (10-8-3-3-1-1-2-3-3-3-3-2-6-5-...) [14 wks]
23 1008 Doja Cat - Paint The Town Red (20-17-11-10-6-4-3-4-6-7-8-11-23-23-30-38-63-xx) [17 wks]
24 1003 Kenya Grace - Strangers (24-13-4-3-2-2-3-4-5-11-10-14-22-22-31-43-...) [16 wks]
25 997 Alessandra - Queen of Kings (60-61-55-75-72-40-34-34-28-36-35-47-20-6-5-5-5-6-8-13-31-41-44-66-xx) [24 wks]

Norway's Alessandra is the 3rd highest Eurovision artist in the countdown with the psytrance-esque 'Queen of Kings'. Similar to 'Cha Cha Cha', the song's Multichart peak also mirrored its Eurovision final result. Kenya Grace blew up out of nowhere with her self-produced and self-written, dreamy slice of D&B 'Strangers' which was held off the top spot by Kylie's 'Tension' for 2 weeks. Doja Cat managed a top 3 smash from her "less commercial" Scarlet album with 'Paint The Town Red'. In the lyrics, the rapper dismisses her critics and asserts her own identity following arguments with fans on social media. Tate McRae topped the Multichart for the first time by copycatting Nelly Furtado circa 2006 with 'greedy' which has spent a ridiculous 18 weeks (and counting) in the top 10. Falling just shy of the EOY top 20 is Mimi Webb's 'Red Flags' which became the nasal voiced singer's biggest hit here to-date.

Posted by: Riser 18th February 2024, 07:38 PM

16 1099 Mae Muller - I Wrote A Song (9-6-7-5-3-5-4-2-3-3-4-7-8-16-24-33-54-xx) [17 wks]
17 1094 SZA - Kill Bill (...-27-21-4-4-4-3-3-3-6-9-12-13-28-23-31-43-22-40-59-71-xx) [20 wks]
18 1085 PinkPantheress & Ice Spice - Boy's a liar Pt. 2 (57-51-52-29-31-17-8-4-4-3-3-8-11-11-13-14-14-28-49-55-56-69-xx) [22 wks]
19 1075 Olivia Rodrigo - bad idea right? (17-11-3-1-1-1-2-2-4-4-7-9-19-21-23-31-61-xx) [17 wks]
20 1070 Anne-Marie feat. Shania Twain - UNHEALTHY (51-28-14-11-7-6-6-6-7-8-12-15-14-16-20-26-35-37-55-xx) [19 wks]

It was a year of legends returning to the charts, including Shania Twain who featured on Anne-Marie's 'UNHEALTHY', and now has her first ever appearance on a Multichart EOY! (I assume, without going through old threads ) 'bad idea right?', my personal fave from GUTS, had three weeks at #1, just like 'Vampire' before it, but a relatively short run by Olivia's standards, landing it at #19 here. PinkPantheress finally had the breakthrough she deserves, with help from Ice Spice, as 'Boy's a liar Pt. 2' peaked at #3 for two weeks. SZA smashed it with 'Kill Bill', although also not getting higher than #3 here, it's firmly her biggest hit to date but her only EOY appearance this year. Mae Muller rounds us out with her Eurovision entry 'I Wrote A Song', with 13 weeks in the top 10 and a #2 peak. Obviously a bit better than it fared at Eurovision itself!

Posted by: RobBot 20th February 2024, 05:58 PM

Great set of songs there, particularly GET IT BITCH @ Ms Muller though of course. We love to see it x

Posted by: k👠th 21st February 2024, 08:09 PM

11 1221 P!nk - TRUSTFALL (25-7-4-2-2-2-2-3-3-4-5-7-7-10-17-23-27-49-60-54-62-xx) [21 wks]
12 1172 Switch Disco feat. Ella Henderson - REACT (49-32-26-37-40-65-xx-53-46-40-25-18-7-10-17-21-11-11-15-11-17-23-26-36-49-xx-70-xx) [25 wks]
13 1161 Kylie Minogue - Tension (6-2-2-1-1-1-1-4-3-3-6-11-15-16-21-22-16-...) [17 wks]
14 1154 RAYE feat. 070 Shake - Escapism. (...-1-1-1-1-2-2-2-2-3-3-9-11-12-19-19-39-41-49-73-xx) [19 wks]
15 1143 cassö, RAYE & D-Block Europe - Prada (49-25-14-12-12-10-6-7-7-6-6-7-9-13-17-23-33-45-32-44-...) [20 wks]

Nobody had the polarizing D-Block Europe getting a Multichart smash on their bingo card, but thanks to RAYE and an on-trend TikTok beat 'Prada' became just that. Thankfully, RAYE's fantastic solo breakthrough 'Escapism.' finishes just ahead of it. The captivating and refreshing hit became her first-ever Multichart number one as a lead artist; she previously topped the chart as a feature on 'You Don't Know Me' by Jax Jones in 2017.

Believe it or not, Kylie's Tension is her first album to spawn 2 Multichart number ones with the title track spending a month at the top, not long after an 8-week "Padamic". Many bemoaned how Switch Disco's Love Island staple 'REACT' ruined a Robert Miles classic, but it seems to have a silent bunch of fans that kept it in the Multichart for an impressive 25 weeks. P!nk continued to remain relevant with 'TRUSTFALL' which got stuck behind Miley's 'Flowers' for 4 consecutive weeks.

Posted by: Riser 25th February 2024, 07:08 PM

10 1263 Troye Sivan - Rush (69-10-6-4-5-5-6-7-5-7-7-14-13-16-14-17-20-25-28-38-35-58-xx) [22 wks]

Troye took a pretty long break between music releases, but it was worth the wait as lead single 'Rush' became one of the summer's anthems (or perhaps a winter anthem in his home country ), with a #4 peak, 10 weeks in the top 10, and it places at #10 in the EOY! All richly deserved for what will hopefully be a defining song of his career.

Posted by: RobBot 26th February 2024, 12:05 PM

One of 2023’s defining songs for me, it’s exactly what the title says it’ll be

Posted by: k👠th 26th February 2024, 06:58 PM

9 1280 Peggy Gou - (It Goes Like) Nanana (22-4-2-2-2-1-2-2-3-5-5-7-9-8-18-17-18-26-33-54-xx) [20 wks]

Peggy Gou returned to music in a massive way with the infectious '(It Goes Like) Nanana' becoming her mainstream breakthrough and one of the defining songs of the summer. Like Eliza Rose before her, Peggy's chart success was an important and inspiring moment for female DJs and minorities in the underground dance scene. The song snuck a week at #1 on our Multichart in between the reigns of 'Padam Padam' and 'vampire'. Peggy had only charted once before with 2021's 'I Go' which peaked at #56.

Posted by: Riser 1st March 2024, 01:28 AM

8 1310 Olivia Rodrigo - vampire (7-3-3-2-1-1-1-2-4-4-4-3-8-9-10-17-23-29-40-46-xx-69-...) [21 wks]

Coincidentally, here's the song that replaced Peggy Gou at #1!

https://www.tiktok.com/@livbedumb/video/7252433906635443498 Whatever the real lyric is, 'vampire' was Olivia Rodrigo's second #1 on the Multichart and third #1 in the UK. It spent 3 weeks at #1 on the Multichart and an impressive 15 weeks in the top 10. It dropped quickly after that, meaning all but 6 of its chart weeks were in the top 10!

Posted by: RobBot 1st March 2024, 01:33 PM

Seeing some of these chart runs is actually kinda fascinating. How a song can (in multiple circumstances) be top 10 for 15 weeks and then be out of the top 75 six weeks later

Posted by: k👠th 4th March 2024, 05:12 PM

7 1431 Miley Cyrus - Flowers (73-3-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-2-4-5-14-22-31-34-38-44-45-69-72-xx) [25 wks]

Miley Cyrus finally got her flowers at the recent Grammy Awards with a big Record of the Year win. The heartfelt, funky pop rock tune was inescapable last year and broke several streaming records. It was the UK year-end number one and the best-selling single of 2023 with 2.70 billion subscription streams globally. On the Multichart, it became Miley's 7th chart topper and her longest-running number one (surpassing the 8 weeks of 'Nothing Breaks Like a Heart' and 'Midnight Sky').

Posted by: Riser 7th March 2024, 12:26 AM

6 1516 Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam (6-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-3-5-6-9-9-12-18-19-24-22-26-25-35-42-62-64-xx-67-73-xx) [27 wks]

I beg your padam? Kylie defied all expectations with 'Padam Padam', a song that's very on-trend but also very true to Kylie as an artist. She made the UK top 10 for the first time in over a decade, and on the Multichart she reached #1 with ease, staying there for 7 weeks. In fact, you might be surprised this isn't top 5 on the EOY! Five even bigger songs are yet to be revealed

Posted by: k👠th 9th March 2024, 07:53 AM

5 1526 Zara Larsson - Can't Tame Her (20-20-9-9-7-5-7-7-6-3-4-2-2-4-4-11-14-23-26-32-41-37-38-34-46-41-74-xx-...) [27 wks]

Zara may have joined the 80s synthpop trend about 3 years late but that didn't stop the slayage of 'Can't Tame Her' on the Multichart last year. The lead single from her VENUS album may have stalled at 25 on the UK charts, but it came close to topping our chart, being held off the top spot by Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding's 'Miracle' for 2 weeks. This effervescent tune even re-entered the most recent Multichart for an impressive 28th week.

Posted by: Riser 10th March 2024, 07:41 PM

4 1547 Dua Lipa - Dance The Night (6-4-3-3-2-3-4-4-4-3-3-4-4-6-8-8-11-12-14-21-29-26-30-65-xx) [24 wks]

Dua Lipa got the whole world hyped for the Barbie movie with 'Dance The Night' being the lead single of the star-studded soundtrack. Buzzjack, already thirsting for a new Dua era, took to it right away as it debuted top 10 and peaked at #2, behind the juggernaut 'Padam Padam'. In the UK it had a more gradual climb, but the film release was perfectly timed to give it a boost to #1, Dua's 4th chart-topper to date. There's something about the number 4, as it also spent several weeks at #4 on the Multichart and lands at #4 on the EOY!

Posted by: k👠th 11th March 2024, 06:55 PM

3 1583 Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding - Miracle (6-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-3-4-5-5-6-9-12-17-28-33-37-34-39-44-49-51-xx) [26 wks]

The formerly rumoured Eurovision entry by Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding never got rocked by Brer, and finishes in the bronze position here. The trance pop track with its neat breakbeat outro managed 7 weeks at the top. It was Calvin's first Multichart number one since 'Promises' in 2018, and Ellie's first since 'On My Mind' in 2015.

Posted by: Riser 15th March 2024, 01:44 AM

2 1679 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer (...-15-10-7-5-5-7-7-7-7-8-9-10-12-13-16-20-16-13-13-13-14-19-22-26-26-25-29-...) [27 wks]

Our #2 for the year didn't even make the top 2 in the Multichart! It's none other than 'Cruel Summer', which finally became a single nearly 4 years after release. It only peaked at #5 here but makes up for it in longevity, spending the entire second half of the year in the top 30. Legends only! Stream the Eras Tour on Disney+ x

Posted by: jimwatts 15th March 2024, 02:17 PM

I didn't have 'Cruel Summer' on my radar to be anywhere near that high makes sense though!

Think I know what's #1 (yay!) but also, if the RotD auto-qualifiers for 2023 are taken from the top 35 songs here which weren't AQs in previous years, then with 'Cruel Summer', 'Anti-Hero' and 'Escapism.' taken out, 'Good Love' at #38 will have just made it in happy to have had a hand in that!

Posted by: RobBot 15th March 2024, 04:35 PM

OMFG YAY @ what that must mean #1 is! I kept waiting for it to appear, didn't think it would've taken the top spot

Posted by: dandy* 16th March 2024, 11:25 AM

Out of interest, do you guys know what the chart looks like on points totals? Intrigued to see how different it is.

Posted by: k👠th 17th March 2024, 12:12 PM

1 1724 Loreen - Tattoo (72-8-5-4-4-6-6-3-3-3-2-1-1-1-2-2-2-3-4-9-12-11-21-19-35-40-52-xx-73-xx) [28 wks]

Congrats to Eurovision MOTHER of staging LorQueen whose song contest winner also comes out on top of our EOY countdown. 'Tattoo' became Loreen's 2nd Multichart number one following 'Euphoria' many years ago. The song spent an insane 19 weeks in the top 10. Typical LorQueen behaviour I fear. Our mother breathes scandipop excellence and talent

Posted by: Riser 20th March 2024, 05:04 AM

QUOTE(dandy* @ Mar 16 2024, 07:25 AM)

Posted by: dandy* 24th March 2024, 11:17 AM

Ah that’s a shame. Would definitely have been interesting to compare as this method rewards longevity and kind of nullifies songs with particularly high points weeks. Not that it matters too much… I much preferred Tattoo to Euphoria so am reasonably happy to see Loreen take the win this year and that was quite a stellar run regardless