‘Billions’ Rules Top TV Songs Chart With Styx Synch

Styx’s “Renegade” reigns on Billboard’s Top TV Songs chart, powered by Tunefind, for August 2023, after it was heard in the season premiere of Showtime’s Billions.

Rankings for the Top TV Songs chart are based on song and show 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 August 2023.

“Renegade,” a No. 16 hit for Styx on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1979, lands at No. 1 following its synch in Billions’ Aug. 11 episode, which coronated the premiere of its seventh and final season.

In August 2023, “Renegade” earned 5.1 million official on-demand U.S. streams and 1,000 downloads, according to Luminate.

The song reigns over Massive Attack’s “Teardrop,” which bows at No. 2. It was heard in the series premiere of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, a newcomer to Amazon Prime Video’s slate of programming that first aired Aug. 4.

“Teardrop,” which bubbled under the Hot 100 in 1998, garnered 1.5 million streams in August 2023.

Music from the continuation of the second season of Amazon’s The Summer I Turned Pretty dots much of the remainder of the Top TV Songs top 10. The July 2023 list featured Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child o’ Mine,” heard in the show’s fourth episode of its second season (July 21), at No. 1, and the final three episodes of season 2 aired in August.

“Exile,” by Taylor Swift and featuring Bon Iver, leads the pack of The Summer I Turned Pretty songs at No. 3 (15.6 million streams, 4,000 downloads), followed by Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the USA” at No. 4 (22.7 million streams, 3,000 downloads). In all, four of the chart’s 10 songs are from the Amazon series.

See the full top 10, also featuring music from Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, Hard Knocks and What We Do in the Shadows, below.

Rank, Song, Artist, Show (Network)
1. “Renegade,” Styx, Billions (Showtime)
2. “Teardrop,” Massive Attack, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Amazon Prime Video)
3. “Exile,” Taylor Swift feat. Bon Iver, The Summer I Turned Pretty (Amazon Prime Video)
4. “Party in the USA,” Miley Cyrus, The Summer I Turned Pretty (Amazon Prime Video)
5. “Dear Mr. Fantasy,” Traffic, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (HBO)
6. “I Can’t Stand the Rain,” Ann Peebles, Hard Knocks (HBO)
7. “Jump Around,” House of Pain, What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
8. “Free Fallin’,” Tom Petty, The Summer I Turned Pretty (Amazon Prime Video)
9. “All the Small Things,” Blink-182, The Summer I Turned Pretty (Amazon Prime Video)
10. “I Feel Love,” Donna Summer, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (HBO)