Friday 5 January 2024

The Top 40 Leaderboard - 2023

Taylor Swift added one more to her total in December to finish a solid 2nd place. There was only ever going to be one winner though and that was Drake. He's now got 90 Top 40 hits to his name, the same again next year will take him above 100. Central Cee is now up to 23 Top 40 hits just 3 years into his Top 40 career. Nines only had 2 Top 40 hits to his name prior to this year but has added 6 to his total. One more and he'll be up to 9. Previous winner Dave has now reached 30 Top 40 hits. Ed Sheeran has now overtaken both Status Quo and David Bowie to reach 6th for most Top 40 hits overall. He needs 7 more Top 40 hits to catch Madonna in 5th.

Rap wise it's 85 of the 241 Top 40 hits, or 35% so not as dominant as it once was but no other genre comes close in terms of quantity.

It's now the 5th year I've done the leaderboard and Drake has been top for 4 of them so I fully expect him to top it again in 2024. I'll start the monthly posts at the end of March.



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