BRIT Awards 2023: The numbers behind this year's Song of the Year nominees from Harry Styles, Cat Burns and more
13.02.2023 - 19:40
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This weekend, the 2023 BRIT Awards take place (for the first time ever in the ceremony's history - on a Saturday!) and one of the night's most anticipated moments will be seeing who will win the coveted Song of the Year award.
So, in anticipation of Saturday's show, we're revealing the Official Charts numbers behind all ten of the nominess for this year's BRIT Award for Song of the Year.
Between them, the ten songs have collated seven Number 1 awards, spending a collective 32 weeks at the top of the Official Singles Chart and a mind-boggling total of a combined 1.1 billion streams.
So how do the BRIT Awards 2023 nominees for Song of the Year stack up? Let's dig in.
A very rare honour indeed for an original Christmas song to be in the running for a BRIT Award but, then again, this is no ordinary Christmas song. Ed & Elton would take Merry Christmas to Number 1 at the end of 2021, capping off a sterling chart year for them both, while a remix of the song featuring LadBaby (Sausage Rolls For Everyone) would one week later become that year's Official Christmas Number 1.
Among the nominees for Song of the Year, Merry Christmas ranks as the biggest physical seller, while its total streams come out at over 64 million.
Lewis' up-beat comeback single after a few years rest welcomed in perky synths into the world of his forthcoming second studio album, Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent.
An instant Number 1 debut on the Official Singles Chart, it became Lewis' third UK chart-topper, and he's recently added a fourth (Pointless) to his collection. In total, Forget Me has logged over 73 million combined streams across audio and video.
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