Sunday 31 January 2021

The Top 40 Leaderboard: January 2021

What's this all about?

One month into the new year and we have two acts with two Top 40 hits so far this year. At the beginning of the year if you'd told me that Olivia Rodrigo would be an early leader of the leaderboard I'd have said who's Olivia Rodrigo? No Top 40 hits prior to this year, but she's been at number one for 3 weeks with "Drivers License" and had another hit with "All I Want".

Also with two Top 40 hits is Doja Cat. Her first was "Best Friend" in collaboration with Saweetie and then "Streets" on her own.

Rap music was dominating the Top 40 last year accounting for over half the Top 40 hits for most of the year but slowed down towards the end of the year. This year it has some catching up to do, just 7 of the 26 Top 40 hits so far this year are rap. It's still the leading genre though.

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