Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” reigns supreme as the No. 1 title on Billboard’s Songs of the Summer chart for the 2023 summer season.
Notably, a country song tops the season-ending tally for the first time since 1974, with Luke Combs’ “Fast Car” at No. 2. Country hits now claim the top two spots for the first time in decades.
Rema and Selena Gomez’ “Calm Down” is at No. 3 on the list. The song spend 53 weeks on the Hot 100.
The 20-position Songs of the Summer tally, tracks the most popular titles based on cumulative performance on the weekly streaming, airplay, and sales-based Billboard Hot 100 chart from Memorial Day through Labor Day (this year encompassing charts dated June 10 through Sept. 9). Calm Down stayed in the top ten on the Hot 100 all summer.
Here’s a breakdown of the Songs of the Summer chart’s top 10 for 2023:
No. 1, “Last Night,” Morgan Wallen,
No. 2, “Fast Car,” Luke Combs
No. 3, “Calm Down,” Rema & Selena Gomez No. 4, “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus
No. 5, “All My Life,” Lil Durk feat. J. Cole
No. 6, “Cruel Summer,” Taylor Swift
No. 7, “Karma,” Taylor Swift feat. Ice Spice No. 8, “Snooze,” SZA
No. 9, “Kill Bill,”
No. 10 is “Fukumean,” by Gunna.
Meanwhile, with Luke Combs’ rendition of Tracy Chapman’s 1988 classic “Fast Car” at No. 2 on the final 2023 Songs of the Summer chart, country hits dominate the list’s top two positions for the first time, dating back to the Hot 100’s inception in 1958.
(“Cruel Summer” is also the first “summer”-titled Songs of the Summer chart hit since Calvin Harris’ “Summer,” which placed at No. 8 in 2014.)
