New year, new WMR 100 #1! After featuring regularly in the list with multiple songs off their album Heartbeat Highway through 2023, Cannons kick off 2024 by finally reaching the top spot with Crush. Their love song unseats the last #1 of 2023, Jung Kook, who slips down to #2 with Standing Next to You, while Ukraine’s Go_A fly up nine places from #12 to take the bronze medal spot with their latest track Dumala. Lena and Sofía Reyes round out the top five.
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2023 is in the books, the first year in the history of World Music Rankings and, by extension, the WMR 100 list is now over, and before moving on fully to 2024, feels like a good moment to take a look at some of the tracks that have been among our favorites of the year, as the numbers reflect.
Therefore, we present part one of the top 20 WMR 100 songs of 2023, a year-end ranking calculated using the points system of Crownnote, in which the song in the nth position of a list receives an amount of points resulting from dividing 10,000 by the square root of n, with which the #1 song in a weekly list receives 10,000 points, #2 receives 7,071, #3 receives 5,774 points, and so on until, in our specific case, #100, which awards 1,000 points.
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The end of the year is coming up, and on the last Friday of 2023, Jung Kook claims his and South Korea’s first WMR 100 #1 with his hit single Standing Next to You. The BTS performer sees off tough competition for the final #1 of the year from Cannons (up three places to #2), Sebalter (staying put at #3), last week’s #1 Dua Lipa (now down to #4) and Lena (up three to #5) to claim the crown for the week. What new challengers will emerge in 2024?
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There’s no holding back this Houdini! Dua Lipa locks in the top spot of the WMR 100 for a second straight week, while the competition stays hot on her heels, with Jung Kook moving up one spot to claim silver with Standing Next to You and Sebalter climbing up two places to #3 with Better Things. Slimane and Cannons round out the week’s top five.
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She said it herself: catch her or she goes Houdini. Dua Lipa escapes the competition this week to claim her first ever WMR 100 #1 after missing out in the summer with Dance the Night, which peaked at #6 back in June. She dethrones SIDEPIECE‘s On My Way, which slips to #2 this week, while Jung Kook climbs up four places to #3 and scores his new personal best with Standing Next to You, becoming the first South Korean act to reach the top five of our list in the process. Rounding out the top five are Slimane‘s Mon amour at #4 and Sebalter‘s Better Things at #5.
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Throughout World Music Rankings’ inaugural year, more and more artists have joined the list of performers who have achieved the top spot of our weekly list, the WMR 100. This week, we welcome to those ranks Dylan Ragland and Ricky Mears, the American house duo known collectively as SIDEPIECE, who lay claim to our #1 spot with their track On My Way, which features vocals by Moroccan-Canadian singer Faouzia (who already achieved a WMR 100 #1 on her own with La La La back in September). They are joined on the podium by Dua Lipa and Lord of the Lost, both of whom move up two places from #4 and #5, respectively, to claim this week’s silver and bronze. Rounding out the top five are last week’s number 1 Daniela Spalla at #4 and Slimane, moving up five places from #10 to claim fifth place.
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December is here, and it means WMR’s first year is close to ending. Through 2023, we have seen artists from several countries claim the top spot of the WMR 100, and we start the last month of the year adding a new country to that list: Argentina. Daniela Spalla becomes the first Argentine act to reach the #1 of our weekly list, plus the first to do so with a Spanish-language song, with La carta, single off her latest album Dara. She is joined on the podium by SIDEPIECE and Faouzia, who inch closer to the top by moving up a spot from #3 to #2 with On My Way, and last week’s #1 LPS, who drop to #3 with Insomnia. Dua Lipa and Lord of the Lost round out the top five.
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Months after Joker Out became the first Slovenian act to claim the WMR 100 #1 with Carpe Diem, their fellow Eurovision alumni LPS bring the flag of their nation back to the top of the list with their single Insomnia. They will be joined in this week’s podium by Mae Muller, staying put at #2 with Written by a Woman, and SIDEPIECE, who claim bronze this week thanks to their track On My Way, which features vocals by Faouzia, herself a former WMR 100 #1 holder with La La La. Lost Frequencies and last week’s champions Michael Schulte & R3HAB round out the top five.
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The dynamic duo of Michael Schulte and R3HAB has done it again. The German singer and the Dutch DJ take the top spot of the WMR 100 for the second straight week with their upbeat single Better Me, and with LPS also staying put in third place with Insomnia, the only change in the podium lineup is Mae Muller climbing up from #7 to #2 with her track Written by a Woman. Lost Frequencies and Remo Forrer round out the top five, while Dua Lipa notches the hottest entry of the week coming in straight into #18 with her new single Houdini.
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The list of first-time WMR 100 #1s won’t stop growing! This week was the turn for the team-up of Michael Schulte and R3HAB, both of them adding their names to the list of WMR charttoppers thanks to their collaboration Better Me, followed closely by Within Temptation (up two from #4 last week) claiming silver and LPS (up five from #8) taking this week’s bronze medal. Walk Off the Earth and Lost Frequencies will be rounding out the top five.
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