Miley Cyrus has the biggest song of 2023... so far

Miley Cyrus's Flowers is the biggest azygous of the twelvemonth to date, says the Official Charts Company.

The break-up anthem, which spent 10 weeks astatine fig 1 earlier this year, has achieved 147 cardinal streams and much than 800,000 downloads.

Raye's Escapism is 2023's 2nd biggest-seller, portion SZA's Kill Bill is successful 3rd place.

The Weeknd's two-year-old top hits collection, The Highlights, is the astir fashionable medium truthful acold this year.

Taylor Swift's Midnights is successful 2nd place, followed by Harry Styles' Harry's House.

However, caller releases are mostly crowded retired of the medium chart, owed to the enduring popularity of classical tracks connected streaming services - which present relationship for 86% of euphony depletion successful the UK.

Greatest hits collections by Elton John (at fig five), Eminem (seven) and Fleetwood Mac (nine) are among the year's biggest-sellers, aft establishing a semi-permanent residency successful the play countdown.

Only 2 albums released successful 2023 diagnostic successful the Top 10 biggest-sellers list: Lewis Capaldi's Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent, astatine six, and Ed Sheeran's Subtract, astatine eight.

Taylor Swift, meanwhile, has 5 albums successful the Top 40, with Midnights joined by 1989 (16), Lover (19), Folklore (23) and Reputation (34).

The apical 5 best-selling singles of the twelvemonth are each by pistillate artists - incredibly, the archetypal clip this has ever happened successful illustration history.

The apical 10 besides features 2 Afrobeats artists, Rema and Libianca, some of whom had breakout hits astatine the commencement of the year. And Ed Sheeran is missing from the Top 10 for the archetypal clip since 2016.

Miley Cyrus's Flowers, meanwhile, was the star's archetypal fig 1 since 2014's Wrecking Ball.

The opus was heavy rumoured to beryllium astir the extremity of her matrimony to histrion Liam Hemsworth, including a notation to their Malibu location that burned down successful a wildfire successful 2018.

She released the way connected Hemsworth's birthday, 10 March, and was said to beryllium wearing 1 of his suits successful the video.

Fans besides speculated that the lyrics were an interpolation of Bruno Mars's When I Was Your Man, which was reportedly played astatine the couple's wedding.

Where Mars sang, "I should person bought you flowers / And held your hand", Cyrus replied, "I tin bargain myself flowers... And I tin clasp my ain hand."

"I ne'er request to beryllium a maestro astatine the trade of tricking an audience," she told the magazine, shrugging disconnected the speculation. "It volition acceptable itself connected occurrence each by itself."

She denied that the lyrics were straight astir her marriage, saying that the station break-up connection of self-reliance was 1 she needed to hear.

"I wrote it successful a truly antithetic way," she said. "The chorus was originally: 'I tin bargain myself flowers, constitute my sanction successful the sand, but I can't emotion maine amended than you can.'

"It utilized to beryllium more, like, 1950s. The saddest song. Like: 'Sure, I tin beryllium my ain lover, but you're truthful overmuch better.'"

In the extremity she decided to take spot implicit sadness.

"The opus is simply a small fake it till you marque it," she concluded. "Which I'm a large instrumentality of."