Monday, 30 January 2023

The Top 40 Leaderboard: 2022

Better late than never, we have the final leaderboard of 2022. No surprise to see it was won by Drake with a total of 10 Top 40 hits and with 79 Top 40 hits overall to his name. If he keeps up that momentum for the next 5 years which he probably will, then he'll overtake Elvis and Cliff.

Central Cee was a close second having been an earlier leader of the board. His number of Top 40 hits overall went from 8 to 16. That's in a Top 40 career of just 2 years and 2 months. 

D-Block Europe brought their total to 27 Top 40 hits in 4 years whilst Aitch is on 18 in 3.5 years. Ed Sheeran ended the year with 57 Top 40 hits to his name, equal with Status Quo and one behind David Bowie and Justin Bieber. I expected the latter to be up there, but he ended up having no Top 40 hits in 2022.

The number of rap Top 40 hits in 2022 fell just short of 100, reaching 98 of the 220 records or 45%.



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