Wicked fever reaches Billboard’s Top Movie Songs chart, powered by Tunefind (a Songtradr company), as Cynthia Erivo’s “Defying Gravity,” featuring Ariana Grande, rises to No. 1 on the December 2024 survey.
Rankings for the Top Movie Songs chart are based on song and film data provided by Tunefind and ranked using a formula blending that data with sales and streaming information tracked by Luminate during the corresponding period of December 2024. The ranking includes newly released films from the preceding three months.
After debuting at No. 2 on the November 2024 Top Movie Songs, “Defying Gravity” rules the latest chart amid Wicked’s first full month of theatrical release; it was debuted in theaters on Nov. 22.
Set during the finale to the first part of Wicked (Wicked: For Good, its sequel, is scheduled for a Nov. 21 premiere), “Defying Gravity” earned 47 million official on-demand U.S. streams and 13,000 downloads in December 2024, according to Luminate.
The song peaked at No. 44 on the Dec. 7-dated Billboard Hot 100 and ranks at No. 71 on the latest tally.
In all, Wicked accounts for six of the chart’s 10 positions in December, including the entire top four. Grande’s “Popular” follows “Defying Gravity” at No. 2, boasting 35.1 million streams and 7,000 downloads.
The top non-Wicked entry belongs to Nirvana’s “Come As You Are,” featured in the movie Queer, released Nov. 27. A No. 32 hit for Nirvana on the Hot 100 in 1992, the song earned 15 million streams and 1,000 downloads in December.
It’s one of two songs from Queer to make the latest list, ahead of Prince’s “Musicology,” which enter the survey at No. 8.
See the full top 10, also featuring music from Kraven the Hunter and Sonic the Hedgehog 3, below.
Rank, Song, Artist, Movie
- “Defying Gravity,” Cynthia Erivo feat. Ariana Grande, Wicked
- “Popular,” Ariana Grande, Wicked
- “What Is This Feeling?,” Ariana Grande & Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
- “No One Mourns the Wicked,” Ariana Grande feat. Andy Nyman, Courtney-Mae Briggs, Jeff Goldblum, Sharon D. Clarke & Jenna Boyd, Wicked
- “Come As You Are,” Nirvana, Queer
- “Sign of the Times,” Harry Styles, Kraven the Hunter
- “Dancing Through Life,” Jonathan Bailey feat. Ariana Grande, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bode & Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
- “Musicology,” Prince, Queer
- “Run It,” Jelly Roll, Sonic the Hedgehog 3
- “The Wizard and I,” Cynthia Erivo feat. Michelle Yeoh, Wicked
