Top 50 songs of 2018: critics picks
(So Far): Critics' Picks Getty Images; Design by Ady Chng 6/6/2018 by Tijani Abdulmalik W hen talking about 2018 so far at Billboard , it's hard to avoid the fact that the 2018 chart year has only had 24 editions of the Hot 100, and Drake has been No. 1 for 17 of them. It's the most that any one artist has dominated the listing's top spot in a year's first six months this decade -- though shout-out to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' combined 11 weeks on top in the first half of 2013 -- and it essentially leaves the non-Drake part of the field wide open when it comes to discussing the year's best and biggest singles. But that's fine. Beyond the Drakening, 2018 has been a year of pleasant surprises on the charts: All-Star teamups we didn't see coming, previously unknown artists coming out with left-field hits, and a handful of big-name comebacks taking us to unexpected new places, all of which m...