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Sunday, December 31, 2023

The Top 50 Songs of 2023

Dave’s Music Database:

Top 50 Songs of 2023

These are the top 50 songs of the year based on their overall performance in Dave’s Music Database, which is determined by combining chart data, sales figures, streaming, video views, and aggregates from year-end lists and charts. Note that songs which were originally released or charted prior to 2023 are ineligible for this list.

Check out “Top Songs and Albums of the Year” lists here.

Spotify Podcast:

Check out the Dave’s Music Database podcast episode The Top 20 Songs of 2023 based on this list.

DMDB Top 1%:

1. Miley Cyrus “Flowers”

DMDB Top 2%:

2. Morgan Wallen “Last Night”
3. Teddy Swims “Lose Control” 4. Olivia Rodrigo “Vampire”
5. Billie Eilish “What Was I Made For?”

DMDB Top 5%:

6. Zach Bryan with Kacey Musgraves “I Remember Everything”
7. Doja Cat “Paint the Town Red”
8. Luke Combs “Fast Car”
9. Jack Harlow “Lovin’ on Me”
10. Dua Lipa “Dance the Night”

11. Noah Kahan with Post Malone “Dial Drunk”
12. The Beatles “Now and Then”

DMDB Top 10%:

13. Pink Pantheress with Ice Spice “Boy’s a Liar, Pt. 2”
14. Boygenius “Not Strong Enough”
15. Taylor Swift “Is It Over Now?”
16. Blink-182 “One More Time”
17. Tate McRae “Greedy”
18. Olivia Rodrigo “Bad Idea, Right?”
19. Jung Kook with Latto “Seven”
20. Bizarrap with Shakira “BZRP Music Sessions, Vol. 53”

21. Dave with Central Cee “Sprinter”
22. Doja Cat “Agora Hills”
23. Ed Sheeran “Eyes Closed”
24. Oliver Anthony “Rich Men North of Richmond”

DMDB Top 20%:

25. Linkin Park “Lost”
26. Chris Stapleton “White Horse”
27. Estabon Armado & Peso Pluma “Ella Baila Sola”
28. Jimin “Like Crazy”
29. Drake with J. Cole “First Person Shooter”
30. Victoria Monét “On My Mama”

31. Tyla “Water”
32. The Rolling Stones “Angry”
33. Travis Scott & Drake “Meltdown”
34. Drake “Search & Rescue”
35. Teddy Swims “The Door”
36. Fall Out Boy “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
37. Noah Kahan & Hozier “Northern Attitude”
38. Luke Combs “Love You Anyway”
39. Drake & SZA “Slime You Out”
40. Dua Lipa “Houdini”

41. Foo Figthers “Rescued”
42. David Kushner “Daylight”
43. Lil Durk & J. Cole “All My Life”
44. Zach Bryan & Noah Kahan “Sarah’s Place”
45. Nicki Minaj with Ice Spice & Aqua “Barbie World”
46. The National with Taylor Swift “The Alcott”
47. U2 “Atomic City”
48. John Mellencamp “The Eyes of Portland”
49. Morgan Wallen “Thinkin’ ‘Bout Me”
50. Miley Cyrus “Used to Be Young”

Resources/Related Links:

Dave’s Music Database: Top Songs and Albums by Year lists
Dave’s Music Database: Songs of the Decade lists

First posted 12/30/2023; last updated 12/26/2024.

Saturday, September 16, 2023

Doja Cat “Paint the Town Red” hit #1

Paint the Town Red

Doja Cat

Writer(s): Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Isaac Earl Bynum, Jean-Baptiste Kouame, Karl Rubin, Ryan Buendia (see lyrics here)

Released: August 4, 2023

First Charted: August 19, 2023

Peak: 1³ BB, 1¹ BA, 1² DG, 1¹ ST, 31 A40, 1⁸ RB, 1⁵ UK, 1⁶ CN, 1¹⁰ AU (Click for codes to charts.)

Sales (in millions): -- US, 0.6 UK, 2.68 world (includes US + UK)

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 360.10 video, 1202.18 streaming

Awards:

Click on award for more details.

About the Song:

Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini, better known as Doja Cat, is a rapper and singer born in Los Angeles in 1995. Her 2018 debut, Amala, stalled at #138 on the album chart, but her next two albums were top-ten, double-platinum releases. She also landed a #1 hit in with “Say So” from her Hot Pink album and three more top tens from 2021’s Planet Her.

Her fourth album, 2023’s Scarlet, gave Doja Cat her second #1 song with “Paint the Town Red.” In addition to topping the charts in the United States, the song soared to the top of the charts in 18 other charts. It became the fastest song by a solo female rapper to reach 100 million streams on Spotify. ^WK The song also received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Solo Performance.

The “pop-rap track with a jazz-influenced beat” ^WK samples Dionne Warwick’s 1964 top-ten hit “Walk on By.” The phrase “paint the town red” means “to go out and celebrate without inhibition by having a noisy and disorderly spree.” ^SF It was first used in the 1870s as a reference to red-light districts. ^SF The song has been interpreted as a message to haters – both critics and fans – that she will go out and enjoy herself, living her life the way she wants to.

The song may be a specific response to reaction to Doja Cat shaving her head and eyebrows in August 2022. The move spurred negative comments from fans on social media who thought it made her look demonic. In the video, Doja Cat appears to be playing up the image, dressed in red and keeping company with the devil. There’s also a scene in which she peels out her eyeball and it falls into hell. The message is potentially that messing with Doja Cat could get bloody. ^SF

Resources:

DMDB encyclopedia entry for Doja Cat
^SF Songfacts
^WK Wikipedia

First posted 1/7/2024; last updated 10/17/2024.

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