Music is an industry that continues to make billions of dollars worldwide and take in the attention of the entire globe for many reasons. There are so many different artists and genres out there to enjoy, and every person has their own unique taste in music. Celebrities continue to make waves in the music industry each year. One of the most unique and well-liked ways that popular artists make money and bring in new listeners is collaborating with each other. What are the hottest music collaborations of 2023 so far?
Sam Smith, Kim Petras – Unholy
Unholy is a piece made by Sam Smith in collaboration with Kim Petras, and it blew up on social media platforms like TikTok for the months leading up to its official release. It now has millions of views on YouTube alone.
Post Malone – I Like You w. Doja Cat
Doja Cat has a unique audience that adores her music, and her collaboration with popular artist Post Malone was received with tons of love from fans of either artist. This has over 70 million views on just YouTube alone, and hundreds of millions of streams on Spotify.
Bruno Mars, Anderson Paak, Silk Sonic – Leave the Door Open
Leave the Door Open was an immediate hit, one of the biggest debuts in a while for a music video. This was a collaboration of multiple really good artists and brought in a lot of OG Bruno Mars fans as well as new folk.
Camilla Cabello ft. Ed Sheeran – Bam Bam
While this one did come out in 2022, it was a huge hit and deserves a place on the list too as a recent major collaboration that took the internet and music world by storm. Bam Bam has amassed hundreds of millions of listens across multiple platforms.
Some of these may have come out in the 2022 era, but these are the most popular hits for collaborating artists on platforms like YouTube and Spotify for the first few months of 2023 so far with many listens amassing each day.
What makes a music piece particularly interesting and higher on the charts is how much it is listened to when it comes out, and with the increase of social media for marketing songs before release a lot of collaborations as well as individual works have been blowing up fast in popularity as they hit the market. These were just some of the best of this year in the first few months, and we can’t wait to see what is to come with how many great music works have come out so far this year!