Top 40 Chart Artists of 2018
Based on Crownnotes' chart points system. 100% of a song's points awarded to each lead artist on that song with each featured artist getting 50% points credit. Figured this was a fair way to devise this ranking.
| Position | Artist | Top Performing Song |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BROCKHAMPTON | "1998 TRUMAN" |
| 2 | Denzel Curry | "PERCS | PERCZ" |
| 3 | Joey Bada$$ | "Temptation" |
| 4 | James Bay | "Pink Lemonade" |
| 5 | Drake | "Nice for What" |
| 6 | Kendrick Lamar | "King's Dead" |
| 7 | Nothing But Thieves | "Forever & Ever More" |
| 8 | Hozier | "Nina Cried Power" |
| 9 | Metro Boomin | "Ric Flair Drip" |
| 10 | Anderson .Paak | "Bubblin" |
| 11 | Foster the People | "Sit Next to Me" |
| 12 | Big K.R.I.T. | "Big K.R.I.T." |
| 13 | Ariana Grande | "No Tears Left to Cry" |
| 14 | A Tribe Called Quest | "We the People..." |
| 15 | Eminem | "Chloraseptic (Remix)" |
| 16 | Demi Lovato | "Solo" |
| 17 | Daniel Caesar | "Get You" |
| 18 | Offset | "Ric Flair Drip" |
| 19 | Mac Miller | "Dang!" |
| 20 | Lord Huron | "The Night We Met" |
| 21 | Florence + the Machine | "Hunger" |
| 22 | Chronixx | "Babylon" |
| 23 | Frank Ocean | "Moon River" |
| 24 | 21 Savage | "Ghostface Killers" |
| 25 | CHVRCHES | "Never Say Die" |
| 26 | J.I.D | "SIRENS | Z1RENZ" |
| 27 | Future | "King's Dead" |
| 28 | Nothing More | "Go to War" |
| 29 | James Blake | "King's Dead" |
| 30 | IDK | "No Wave" |
| 31 | Post Malone | "Better Now" |
| 32 | Panic! at the Disco | "Say Amen (Saturday Night)" |
| 33 | Twenty One Pilots | "Jumpsuit" |
| 34 | SZA | "All the Stars" |
| 35 | Thrice | "The Grey" |
| 36 | Taylor Swift | "Delicate" |
| 37 | Alice Merton | "No Roots" |
| 38 | GoldLink | "BLACK BALLOONS | 13LACK 13ALLOONZ" |
| 39 | Jay Rock | "King's Dead" |
| 40 | Clean Bandit | "Solo" |
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Nina Cried Power
Hozier ft. featuring Mavis Staples
From the album: Nina Cried Power, Wasteland, Baby!
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Ghostface Killers
21 Savage, Offset, & Metro Boomin ft. featuring Travis Scott
From the album: Without Warning
- Number 47
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BLACK BALLOONS | 13LACK 13ALLOONZ
Denzel Curry ft. featuring Twelve'len & GoldLink
From the album: TA13OO, Act 1: Light
- Number 50
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No Wave
IDK ft. featuring Denzel Curry
- Number 54
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TOOGOODTOBETRUE
Gallant ft. featuring Sufjan Stevens & Rebecca Sugar
From the album: This Song Does Not Fit
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Silence
Marshmello ft. featuring Khalid
- Number 99
Once Upon a Time (Freestyle)
IDK ft. featuring Denzel Curry
- Number 100

Ok so I counted... it looks like there's only 18 songs that made it in both of our charts! I think it would have been more had I considered songs that were released before 2018 like you did. For example, Stir Fry, New Rules, We Find Love, and Ric Flair Drip, to mention a few, are all songs I love but didn't consider because they weren't released in 2018. Overall though, great chart. Nice to see Nice for What and 1998 Truman in the Top 5, and even though it didn't make my list, I'm glad to see Moon River in the Top 10 as well.