Billboard’s #11 song of 2023 belongs to Sam Smith and Kim Petras, whose ‘Unholy’ broke a lot of ground for non-binary and transgender performers.
The catchy dance-pop track marked a departure for Smith, known primarily for their slow, sad ballads. Petras is a Los Angeles-based German singer-songwriter who was two years into her first record contract when she delivered this hit and went from relative anonymity to a chart-topping, award-winning artist.
The #10 song of 2023, according to Billboard, is another I managed to miss entirely: ‘I’m Good (Blue)’ by David Guetta and Beve Rexha.
This song had a long journey to the 2023 top ten. The duo initially worked on the track in 2017, with no intention to release it. However, when a snippet of the song (which heavily samples Eiffel 65’s 1998 ‘Blue (Da Ba Dee)’) went viral on TikTok, they decided to give it an official release.
In a new annual tradition, I’ll start January by recapping Billboard’s Hot 100 songs of the previous year. If I’ve been good about keeping an ear open to “What the Kids are Listening To,” I should get pretty far down the list after weeding out the songs I’ve already featured.
Last year, I made it all the way to #27 before reaching a song new to the blog. This year, I didn’t do nearly as well. My first entry was the #9 song of 2023.
Yesterday I looked back on my past year of blogging, so today is about the year to come. Here are some of my plans for 2024:
Hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable New Year’s Eve!
Last year around this time, I wrote a post detailing all the plans I had for the blog in 2023. Today, I’ll revisit that outline to see how I did.
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