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.

 

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 :lol:) '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!

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

 

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.

 

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 :kink:), 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.

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

 

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.

 

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!

 

🎵 Blood sucker, whale blubber, garlic butter, Marc Zucker. 🎵 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!

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 :lol:

 

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').

 

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 :o

 

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.

 

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!

 

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.

 

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

I didn't have 'Cruel Summer' on my radar to be anywhere near that high :o 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 :cheer: happy to have had a hand in that!

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 :wub:

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

 

:winner: 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 :clap:

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

We do not, I'm afraid!