State of the Hot 100 Top 10 in 2023: Hit Songs Deconstructed

What had been among the most notable traits on the Billboard Sizzling 100 songs chart throughout 2023?

Hit Songs Deconstructed, which supplies compositional analytics for prime 10 Sizzling 100 hits, has launched its year-end 2023 State of the Sizzling 100 High 10 report.

Listed below are three takeaways from Hit Songs Deconstructed’s newest in-depth analysis.

Pop on High, Nation Climbs

Pop reigns as the most typical major style within the Sizzling 100’s prime 10 all through 2023, contributing to 29% of all prime 10 hits. Taylor Swift tallied essentially the most prime 10s (11) amongst all acts between January and December, in addition to essentially the most No. 1s (three).

Over the previous 5 years, pop beforehand led in 2021 and 2019, although with heftier 39% and 47% showings, respectively, in these years.

Hip-hop/rap ranked second amongst major genres for 2023 with a 23% take of Sizzling 100 prime 10s. Just like pop, hip-hop/rap is down from first-place finishes of 38% in 2022 and 41% in 2020.

Slicing into pop and hip-hop/rap’s shares, nation surged to a 15% declare of Sizzling 100 prime 10s in 2023 amongst major genres. “Nation songs almost quadrupled in prominence from 2022 to 2023,” Hit Songs Deconstructed’s report notes. “This was largely due to Morgan Wallen, who accounted for almost half of nation’s illustration.” Wallen posted 5 prime 10s in 2023, together with “Final Night time,” the No. 1 track on the Sizzling 100’s year-end recap.

Nation as a major style accounted for 4% of all Sizzling 100 prime 10s in each 2022 and 2021, following totals of 5% in 2020 and a couple of% in 2019.

Ladies and Sung Vocals Vault in High 10

Swift additionally helped spark the rise of ladies vocals within the Sizzling 100’s prime 10 in 2023.

“Male-led songs accounted for a slight majority of prime 10 hits at simply over half – 52%,” Hit Songs Deconstructed’s report signifies. “Nevertheless, female-led songs have been on the rise, growing to 38% of songs in 2023, their highest degree since approach again in 2014. That is largely due to Swift.”

In the meantime, concurrent with hip-hop/rap’s smaller share of Sizzling 100 prime 10s amongst major genres in 2023 than in prior latest years, hits “that includes solely sung deliveries took the lead in 2023 for the primary time since 2019, with 53% of songs,” Hit Songs Deconstructed factors out. Sung/rapped prime 10s adopted at 42%, whereas entries “with solely rapped deliveries continued to be few and much between, accounting for simply 4% of songs.”

Completely different Drums

traits amongst devices in Sizzling 100 prime 10s, acoustic drums snared a key achieve in 2023.

“Whereas nonetheless within the minority, the usage of primarily acoustic drums/percussion elevated considerably from 2022 to 2023, rising from simply 8% to 21%” of Sizzling 100 prime 10s, recaps Hit Songs Deconstructed. The year-end report cites acoustic-driven hits that “spanned an array of genres,” together with nation, due to such songs as Zach Bryan’s “I Keep in mind All the pieces,” that includes Kacey Musgraves; Latin (Eslabón Armado and Peso Pluma’s “Ella Baila Sola”); R&B/soul (SZA’s “Kill Invoice”); and rock (Olivia Rodrigo’s “Dangerous Thought Proper?”).

Concurrently, “the usage of primarily digital drums/percussion notably plunged between 2022 and 2023, dropping from 64% of [Hot 100 top 10s] to only 45%, [their] lowest degree in a decade.”