After dominating the charts, touring the world and launching her own concert film, Taylor Swift has been named Apple Music‘s Artist of the Year.
The platform unveiled its year-end charts ranking 2023’s top songs, top Shazams, and, for the first time, the songs music fans sang along to the most using Apple Music Sing. Swift was the most listened-to artist by Apple Music subscribers, simultaneously setting a new all-time record for the most listeners for any artist in a single year on Apple Music. Bad Bunny was last year’s Artist of the Year. “In the first 10 months of 2023, she saw 65 songs reach Apple Music’s Global Daily Top 100 — more than any other artist,” said the service in a press release.
Apple’s Top Global Songs list was led by Morgan Wallen‘s “Last Night” as the first country song since “Old Town Road” (2019) to top the chart. Across the 100 songs on the chart, 11 country songs led the list — rising from four last year. Also getting a big look is música Mexicana and Afrobeats. On the Top 100 2023: Shazam chart, Rema’s “Calm Down” leads the list while “Rush” by Ayra Starr and “People” by Libianca also end the year among the world’s most Shazamed songs. Also this year, and for the first time ever, a total of four Música Mexicana songs make the list; making it into the top 20 is Peso Pluma and Eslabon Armado’s “Ella Baila Sola” (No. 18) while Grupo Frontera and Bad Bunny’s “un x100to” lands at No. 70.
Apple Music spotlighted numerous year-end Charts, like the Top Fitness Songs Chart, where British dance duo Punctual lead with “Do It All Again (feat. Jordan Shaw),” and the Top Songwriters Chart, where Drake pulls in more streams than any other songwriter, among others. See and listen to the full suite of Year-End Charts on Apple Music and check out the Top Global Songs of 2023 below.
| Top Songs of 2023 Global | ||
| Rank | Song Title | Artist Name |
| 1 | Last Night | Morgan Wallen |
| 2 | Flowers | Miley Cyrus |
| 3 | Kill Bill | SZA |
| 4 | Rich Flex | Drake, 21 Savage |
| 5 | Snooze | SZA |
| 6 | Anti-Hero | Taylor Swift |
| 7 | IDOL | YOASOBI |
| 8 | Under the Influence | Chris Brown |
| 9 | Creepin’ | The Weeknd, Metro Boomin, 21 Savage |
| 10 | Subtitle | OFFICIAL HIGE DANDISM |
| 11 | Spin Bout U | Drake, 21 Savage |
| 12 | Calm Down | Rema, Selena Gomez |
| 13 | Freestyle | Lil Baby |
| 14 | As It Was | Harry Styles |
| 15 | Cruel Summer | Taylor Swift |
| 16 | Unholy | Kim Petras, Sam Smith |
| 17 | WAIT FOR U (feat. Drake & Tems) | Future |
| 18 | Ella Baila Sola | Peso Pluma, Eslabon Armado |
| 19 | Ditto | NewJeans |
| 20 | You Proof | Morgan Wallen |
| 21 | fukumean | Gunna |
| 22 | Superhero (Heroes & Villains) | Metro Boomin, Future, Chris Brown |
| 23 | All My Life (feat. J. Cole) | Lil Durk |
| 24 | Just Wanna Rock | Lil Uzi Vert |
| 25 | Sure Thing | Miguel |
| 26 | Thinkin’ Bout Me | Morgan Wallen |
| 27 | Die For You | The Weeknd |
| 28 | Boy’s a liar, Pt. 2 | PinkPantheress, Ice Spice |
| 29 | Jimmy Cooks (feat. 21 Savage) | Drake |
| 30 | Tití Me Preguntó | Bad Bunny |
| 31 | I’m Good (Blue) | Bebe Rexha, David Guetta |
| 32 | Favorite Song | Toosii |
| 33 | KICK BACK | Kenshi Yonezu |
| 34 | Fast Car | Luke Combs |
| 35 | Search & Rescue | Drake |
| 36 | Something in the Orange | Zach Bryan |
| 37 | OMG | NewJeans |
| 38 | Shirt | SZA |
| 39 | I Ain’t Worried | OneRepublic |
| 40 | Kaiju No Hanauta | Vaundy |
| 41 | Low Down | Lil Baby |
| 42 | One Thing At A Time | Morgan Wallen |
| 43 | Nobody Gets Me | SZA |
| 44 | CUFF IT | Beyoncé |
| 45 | STAY | The Kid LAROI, Justin Bieber |
| 46 | Blinding Lights | The Weeknd |
| 47 | golden hour | JVKE |
| 48 | Seven | Latto, Jung Kook |
| 49 | Lavender Haze | Taylor Swift |
| 50 | Wasted On You | Morgan Wallen |
| 51 | In A Minute | Lil Baby |
| 52 | Chasin’ You | Morgan Wallen |
| 53 | Bad Habit | Steve Lacy |
| 54 | HOTEL LOBBY (Unc & Phew) | Quavo, Takeoff |
| 55 | Me Porto Bonito | Chencho Corleone, Bad Bunny |
| 56 | Escapism. | RAYE, 070 Shake |
| 57 | On BS | Drake, 21 Savage |
| 58 | vampire | Olivia Rodrigo |
| 59 | Good Days | SZA |
| 60 | Mask Off | Future |
| 61 | Thought You Should Know | Morgan Wallen |
| 62 | Major Distribution | Drake, 21 Savage |
| 63 | Jumbotron Shit Poppin | Drake |
| 64 | Hype Boy | NewJeans |
| 65 | Sum 2 Prove | Lil Baby |
| 66 | California Breeze | Lil Baby |
| 67 | Paint The Town Red | Doja Cat |
| 68 | Lover | Taylor Swift |
| 69 | Circo Loco | Drake, 21 Savage |
| 70 | un x100to | Grupo Frontera, Bad Bunny |
| 71 | Karma | Summer Walker |
| 72 | Too Many Nights (feat. Don Toliver) | Metro Boomin, Future |
| 73 | PUFFIN ON ZOOTIEZ | Future |
| 74 | Karma | Taylor Swift |
| 75 | Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) | Swae Lee, Post Malone |
| 76 | Trance | Young Thug, Metro Boomin, Travis Scott |
| 77 | Shape of You | Ed Sheeran |
| 78 | Starboy (feat. Daft Punk) | The Weeknd |
| 79 | ANTIFRAGILE | LE SSERAFIM |
| 80 | The Kind of Love We Make | Luke Combs |
| 81 | Everything I Love | Morgan Wallen |
| 82 | No Role Modelz | J. Cole |
| 83 | Bejeweled | Taylor Swift |
| 84 | Hours In Silence | Drake, 21 Savage |
| 85 | God’s Plan | Drake |
| 86 | Perfect | Ed Sheeran |
| 87 | La Bebe (Remix) | Peso Pluma, Yng Lvcas |
| 88 | PRC | Peso Pluma, Natanael Cano |
| 89 | Pussy & Millions (feat. Travis Scott) | Drake, 21 Savage |
| 90 | Another Love | Tom Odell |
| 91 | No Guidance (feat. Drake) | Chris Brown |
| 92 | Moscow Mule | Bad Bunny |
| 93 | Heat Waves | Glass Animals |
| 94 | Blank Space | Taylor Swift |
| 95 | Low | SZA |
| 96 | Privileged Rappers | Drake, 21 Savage |
| 97 | TQG | Shakira, KAROL G |
| 98 | BackOutsideBoyz | Drake |
| 99 | Bebe Dame | Fuerza Regida, Grupo Frontera |
| 100 | Umbrella (feat. JAY Z) | Rihanna |
