The Official Top 40 Biggest Songs of 2023 so far
06.04.2023 - 23:01
/ officialcharts.com
Miley Cyrus has gotten her Flowers as she claims the biggest song of 2023 so far.
The post-disco banger became Miley's third Official UK Number 1 (and first in a decade) at the start of the year, spending ten consecutive weeks at the top of the Official Singles Chart.
It joins party anthem We Can't Stop and synth-ballad Wrecking Ball as Miley's trio of UK chart-toppers, with both singles reaching Number 1 in 2013, during the chaotic Bangerz era.
Flowers reaches the summit with over 804,000 chart units logged since its release on January 13. It also claims the biggest first week of the year so far (91,000 chart units) as well as the biggest week overall, during its second week at Number 1 (126,000 chart units).
Flowers also enjoys the titles of most-streamed track of 2023 so far in the UK (over 92 million streams and counting) and the most digital downloads (64,000).
Flowers' unprecedented success saw it dominate conversation, radio airwaves and the Official Singles Chart itself. It became the longest-running Number 1 single by a female artist this side of the decade in the process and equalled the epic 10 week runs of Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You and Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On. See how Miley Cyrus got her Flowers here.
Not far behind at Number 2 is one of the biggest pop justice stories of 2023, RAYE and her jagged electronic banger Escapism. with 070 Shake. Rising steadily in the closing weeks of 2022, the singular track finally ascended to Number 1 this year, becoming Raye's first-ever chart-topper in the process.
Rounding out the Top 5 we have US R&B auteur SZA with Kill Bill (3), BBC Sound Of...2022 winner PinkPantheress's breakthrough Top 10 hit boy’s a liar (4) and Taylor Swift's former