And besides, those two Drake songs are pretty great too: You'll see them both below as we recount our 50 favorite songs of 2018 so far, with a Spotify playlist of all 50 at the bottom.
Beyond the Drakening, 2018 has been a year of pleasant surprises on the charts: All-Star teamups we didn't see coming, previously unknown artists coming out with left-field hits, and a handful of big-name comebacks taking us to unexpected new places, all of which made the predictability at pop's highest level forgivable. It's the most that any one artist has dominated the listing's top spot in a year's first six months this decade - though shout-out to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' combined 11 weeks on top in the first half of 2013 - and it essentially leaves the non-Drake part of the field wide open when it comes to discussing the year's best and biggest singles.īut that's fine. When talking about 2018 so far at Billboard, it's hard to avoid the fact that the 2018 chart year has only had 24 editions of the Hot 100, and Drake has been No.
