Noah Kahan Tops Hot 100 Songwriters Chart, Thanks to ‘Stick Season’

Noah Kahan is formally the No. 1 songwriter within the U.S., as he tops Billboard’s Sizzling 100 Songwriters chart (dated Feb. 10) for the primary time.

Kahan rises 2-1 thanks to 2 writing credit on the Sizzling 100: “Stick Season,” on which he’s the only real credited author, at No. 12, and “Northern Perspective” with Hozier (co-written with Gabe Simon) at No. 97.

Kahan additionally tops Various Songwriters for a 14th week and Rock & Various Songwriters for a fourth body.

“Stick Season” has been steadily climbing the Sizzling 100 because it debuted in October – regardless that Kahan launched it in 2022. It reaches a brand new excessive on the most recent record with 16.3 million official streams (up 3%), 11.8 million radio airplay viewers impressions (up 28%), and a pair of,000 downloads offered (up 20%) within the U.S. Jan. 26-Feb. 1, in accordance with Luminate.

The monitor’s mum or dad album of the identical identify has additionally maintained a gradual presence on the Billboard 200 albums chart. It locations at No. 4 on the latest rating with 47,000 equal album models, practically matching its No. 3 excessive reached in June.

Rounding out the highest 5 on Sizzling 100 Songwriters, surging Latin music artist Xavi rises 3-2 because of his work on “La Diabla” (No. 22 on the Sizzling 100; co-written with Alex Hernandez) and “La Victima” (No. 53; sole author); Zach Bryan ranks at No. 3 powered by “I Keep in mind Every little thing,” that includes Kacey Musgraves (No. 6; co-written with Musgraves), and “Oklahoma Smokeshow” (No. 86; sole author); Tracy Chapman locations at No. 4 through Luke Combs’ cowl of her basic “Quick Automotive” (No. 20; sole author); and Jack Antonoff is No. 5 because of his work on Taylor Swift’s “Merciless Summer time” (No. 3; co-written with Swift and Annie Clark) and “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Model) [From the Vault]” (No. 21; co-written with Swift).

Billboard’s weekly Sizzling 100 Songwriters and Sizzling 100 Producers charts are primarily based on complete factors accrued by a songwriter and producer, respectively, for every attributed tune that seems on the Sizzling 100. As with Billboard’s yearly recaps, a number of writers or producers break up factors for every tune equally (and the dividing of factors will result in occasional ties on rankings). Billboard launched its Sizzling 100 Songwriters and Sizzling 100 Producers charts, in addition to genre-specific rankings for nation, rock & different, R&B/hip-hop, R&B, rap, Latin, Christian, gospel and dance/digital in June 2019. Various and laborious rock joined in 2020, together with seasonal vacation rankings in 2022.