The year 2023 was a milestone in the success of a remarkable number of songs, most of which recorded listening numbers in the hundreds of millions, generating huge profits for singers and production companies, as well as streaming platforms.
The Hollywood Reporter prepared a report on the most streamed songs in 2023 on the Spotify platform, which it presented as follows:
1. SZA “Snooze”
As of December 21, the song by the American artist Solana Imani Roy, known by her artistic name SZA, has achieved 668 million, 455 thousand and 814 streams on Spotify. It is song No. 6 from the artist’s second album entitled “SOS”, released on April 25, 2022, and it is of the genre Contemporary rhythm.
The artist Justin Bieber participated in the audio version of the song, and he also played the starring role in the official video clip for the song, which was filmed in 2023, due to the great success of the song, and was officially released on September 15, 2023.
2. Billie Eilish “What Was I Made For”
As of December 21, the song has achieved 522 million and 702 thousand streams on Spotify. It is the latest work of the American singer Billie Eilish. It was released on July 13, 2023 as the fourth song from the soundtrack to the movie “Barbie.”
It reached first place in a large number of countries around the world, while it ranked 14th on the Billboard 100 list, and was nominated for 5 Grammy Awards for the 66th annual ceremony scheduled in 2024. The song was also nominated for the Best Song for a Movie award at the 2024 Academy Awards.
3. Mitsky “My Love Mine All Mine”
As of December 21, it has achieved 377 million and 287 thousand streams on Spotify. It is the third song from the seventh album by American singer Mitski, released on October 3, 2023.
The song is characterized by piano and guitar music with its beautiful lyrics, in which the singer asks the moon to take from her soul and her life and give to her lover. It received wide praise from artistic critics, and achieved great success on the Billboard 100, as well as on TikTok.
4. Tila “Water”
As of December 21, it had achieved 264 million and 168 thousand streams on Spotify, and was released as the lead single from her first album on July 28, 2023.
It reached number one in New Zealand and the top 10 in many countries around the world, and was nominated for Best African Music Performance at the 66th Grammy Awards, scheduled for 2024.
5. Zach Bryan “I Remember Everything”
As of December 21, it has achieved 257 million and 376 thousand streams on Spotify. It is the latest work by American singer Zach Bryan in collaboration with “Country” singer Kacey Musgraves.
The song was released on September 8, 2023, as the lead single for Zach Bryan’s fourth album, and ranked 11th on the Billboard 100 list, but not a week passed until it advanced to first place for 3 consecutive weeks.
6. What It Is?
As of December 21, the single version of the song had achieved 243 million and 289 thousand streams on Spotify, surpassing another version in which the black American singer Deutsche shared with her fellow rapper Kodak Black.
The two songs were released simultaneously on March 17, 2023, and reached the Billboard 100 as Deutsche’s first song, ranking at number 29. In other countries such as Malaysia, the Netherlands, and the Philippines, it reached the top ten positions on the list of the most-streamed songs in the country.
7. Dev Carroll’s Vishakira “TQG”
As of December 21, it has achieved 140 million and 681 thousand streams on Spotify, and artistic critics classified it as “the revolutionary song for former lovers,” because it was the result of two crises of love and separation, “Shakira from Gerard Pique” and “Carole J from Anuel AA.”
It was released on February 24, 2023, and ranked seventh in the United States on the Billboard 100 list. It was nominated for 3 Latin Grammy Awards, and won one of them, in addition to the award for Best Daring Video Clip.
8. Victoria Monet “On My Mama”
As of December 21, “On My Mama” had achieved 52 million and 543 thousand streams on the Spotify platform. Victoria revealed that she wrote the song while she was suffering from postpartum depression, as an uprising against herself and a song for life.
The song was released on Monet’s first album, “Jaguar”, on June 16, 2023, and was nominated for Song of the Year and Best R&B Song at the 66th Grammy Awards in 2024.
9. Beyoncé “Cuff It Remix”
As of December 21, “Cut It” has achieved 36 million and 550 thousand streams on Spotify, and along with Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” world tour, represents an evolution in the rules of the musical game during the year 2023.
The original version of the song was released in 2022, as part of Beyoncé’s seventh album, which bore the same name as the tour “Renaissance.” As for the remix version of the song, it was released on February 3, 2023, and achieved greater success than the original version.
10. The Jonas Brothers “Vacation Eyes”
As of December 21, the song has achieved 10 million and 509 thousand streams on Spotify. It is the most prominent song from the sixth album by the American pop band “Jonas Brothers”, which was released on May 12, 2023.
The album, which bore the name “The Album,” was distinguished by the appearance of a large number of guests, a new type of music that had not been presented by the group before, in addition to each of the siblings presenting a solo song.
