The Best-Selling Albums and Songs of 2023
Wallen took the album and the song of the year while Swift took the artist title on the back of a stadium tour.
Artists of the Year
Top 10 Albums of 2023 Billboard 200
- 1One Thing at a TimeMorgan Wallen
- 2MidnightsTaylor Swift
- 3SOSSZA
Partial list. Billboard’s full 2023 year-end Billboard 200 sits behind a paid data licence, so only the positions confirmed against a free, named source appear here. The remaining places are left out rather than guessed.
Top 10 Songs of 2023 Hot 100
- 1Last NightMorgan Wallen
- 2FlowersMiley Cyrus
- 3Kill BillSZA
- 4Anti-HeroTaylor Swift
- 5Creepin’Metro Boomin, The Weeknd and 21 Savage
- 6Calm DownRema and Selena Gomez
- 7Die for YouThe Weeknd and Ariana Grande
- 8Fast CarLuke Combs
- 9SnoozeSZA
- 10I’m Good (Blue)David Guetta and Bebe Rexha
What the 2023 Charts Show
- Morgan Wallen held both the No. 1 album and the No. 1 song of 2023 — the rarest double on the year-end charts.
- The year split: Taylor Swift led on albums while Morgan Wallen led on singles.
- Midnights placed in the year-end top 10 for a second straight year, having also charted in 2022.
How the 2023 charts were compiled
Every position here is a chart placement — measured sales, radio airplay and streaming across Billboard’s tracking year — not an editorial ranking. Albums come from the year-end Billboard 200, songs from the year-end Hot 100.
Billboard’s tracking year runs from roughly late October to mid-October rather than January to December, which is why a late-autumn release can win the following year and why a song can appear on two consecutive year-end lists.
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