We’re now into the home stretch of 2023 with just two weeks left in the year, and though the Billboard Hot 100 is dominated by vintage Christmas songs, my chart says ‘no’ to that! Accordingly, the delightful love song “Darling” by Canadian artist Western Jaguar holds onto the top spot for a second week. Green Day moves into second place with their rousing protest anthem “The American Dream is Killing Me”, while The Beatles‘ nostalgic “Now and Then” climbs three spots to #3. (The song is #1 for a second week on the Billboard AAA chart.) “THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND” by American hard rock band Bad Omens spends a fourth week at #7.

British pop-rock band Wild Horse enter the top 10 with their sweet song “Attraction”, moving up four spots to #9, and Brittany Howard‘s wonderful “What Now” is this week’s biggest climber, leaping 10 spots to #15. The lone debut this week, entering at #30, is “Nothing Matters” by British all-female indie rock band The Last Dinner Party. Although the song’s been a sizable hit on the Alternative charts, and seems to be almost everyone’s favorite, it’s taken a while to grow on me.

1. DARLING – Western Jaguar (1)
2. THE AMERICAN DREAM IS KILLING ME – Green Day (3)
3. NOW AND THEN – The Beatles (6)
4. MORE THAN A LOVE SONG – Black Pumas (2)
5. HONEY (ARE U COMING?) – Måneskin (4)
6. ONE MORE TIME – blink-182 (5)
7. THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND – Bad Omens (7)
8. ATOMIC CITY – U2 (9)
9. ATTRACTION – Wild Horse (13)
10. THE SHAMEFUL – Amongst Liars (10)
11. MY LOVE MINE ALL MINE – Mitski (16)
12. MY KINDA GIRL – The 23s (8)
13. RUN AWAY WITH ME – Cold War Kids (15)
14. YOUR SIDE OF TOWN – The Killers (12)
15. WHAT NOW – Brittany Howard (25)
16. ANGRY – The Rolling Stones (11)
17. GOOD OLD DAYS – The Revivalists (18)
18. LOVING YOU – Cannons (19)
19. WILD – Brian Lambert, Harmoni Kelley & Marc Schuster (20)
20. ALL I DIE FOR – SWiiMS (21)
21. COOL ABOUT IT – boygenius (22)
22. WHITE HORSE – Chris Stapleton (23)
23. MODERN GIRL – Bleachers (24)
24. UNDER YOU – Foo Fighters (14)
25. HOW DID YOU GET HERE? – Antony Szmierek (26)
26. EVICTED – Wilco (17)
27. HOUDINI – Dua Lipa (28)
28. BLAME BRETT – The Beaches (29)
29. PRETTY VICIOUS – The Struts (30)
30. NOTHING MATTERS – The Last Dinner Party (N)