Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” is the top song on Billboard’s Songs of the Summer chart for the summer of 2023.
Notably, a country song leads the season-ending chart for the first time since 1974, and country hits take the top two slots for the first time, with Luke Combs’ “Fast Car” at No. 2.
From Memorial Day through Labour Day, the 20-position Songs of the Summer running tally tracks the most popular songs based on cumulative performance on the weekly streaming-, airplay-, and sales-based Billboard Hot 100 chart (this year comprising charts dated June 10 through September 9).
“Last Night” wins the 2023 Songs of the Summer chart after topping the weekly list for all 14 weeks this season. It dominated the Hot 100 for 16 weeks, the longest run for a non-collaboration. It also spent 25 weeks at the top of the Hot Country Songs chart.
The single is just the second to top the Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs charts, as well as to win top seasonal honours on Songs of the Summer: it joins John Denver’s “Annie’s Song,” which peaked at No. 1 on the Hot 100 and No. 9 on Hot Country Songs in 1974.
Here is a rundown of the Songs of the Summer chart’s top 10 for 2023:
- No. 1, “Last Night,” Morgan Wallen
- No. 2, “Fast Car,” Luke Combs
- No. 3, “Calm Down,” Rema & Selena Gomez
- No. 4, “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus
- No. 5, “All My Life,” Lil Durk feat. J. Cole
- No. 6, “Cruel Summer,” Taylor Swift
- No. 7, “Karma,” Taylor Swift feat. Ice Spice
- No. 8, “Snooze,” SZA
- No. 9, “Kill Bill,” SZA
- No. 10, “Fukumean,” Gunna
Meanwhile, with Luke Combs’ rendition of Tracy Chapman’s 1988 classic “Fast Car” at No. 2 on the final 2023 Songs of Summer chart, country tunes take the top two spots for the first time (going back to the Hot 100’s founding in 1958).
