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Tuesday, September 5, 2023

And Billboard's Song of Summer 2023 Is...


Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” reigns 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 — while, with Luke Combs’ “Fast Car” at No. 2, country hits claim the top two spots for the first time.

The 20-position Songs of the Summer running 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).

“Last Night” claims the title on the 2023 Songs of the Summer chart after leading the weekly chart all 14 weeks this season. On the Hot 100, it dominated for 16 weeks – the most ever for a non-collaboration. It also topped the Hot Country Songs chart for 25 weeks.


The single is just the second that has hit the top 10 on both the Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs and won top seasonal honors on Songs of the Summer: It joins John Denver’s “Annie’s Song,” which reached No. 1 on the Hot 100 and No. 9 on Hot Country Songs in 1974.

Here is a rundown of the Songs of the Summer chart’s top 10 for 2023:

  1. “Last Night,” Morgan Wallen
  2. “Fast Car,” Luke Combs
  3. “Calm Down,” Rema & Selena Gomez
  4. “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus
  5. “All My Life,” Lil Durk feat. J. Cole
  6. “Cruel Summer,” Taylor Swift
  7. “Karma,” Taylor Swift feat. Ice Spice
  8. “Snooze,” SZA
  9. “Kill Bill,” SZA
  10. “Fukumean,” Gunna

Meanwhile, with Luke Combs’ cover of Tracy Chapman’s 1988 classic “Fast Car” at No. 2 on the final 2023 Songs of the Summer chart, country hits hold the list’s top two positions for the first time (dating to the Hot 100’s 1958 inception).


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