Google released its year-end data yesterday. Here are the top trends in various entertainment-related categories:
People:
1. Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin
2. Jeremy Renner
3. Travis Kelce
4. Tucker Carlson
5. Former kid rapper and influencer . . . and death hoax subject . . . Lil Tay
Actors:
1. Jeremy Renner
2. Jamie Foxx
3. Danny Masterson
4. Comedian Matt Rife
5. Pedro Pascal
Passings:
1. Matthew Perry
2. Tina Turner
3. Jerry Springer
4. Jimmy Buffett
5. Sinead O’Connor
Movies:
1. “Barbie”
2. “Oppenheimer”
3. “Sound of Freedom”
4. “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
5. “Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3”
TV Shows:
1. “The Last of Us”
2. “Ginny & Georgia”
3. “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story”
4. “Daisy Jones & the Six”
5. “Wednesday”
Songs:
1. “Try That in a Small Town”, Jason Aldean
2. “Rich Men North of Richmond”, Oliver Anthony
3. “Unholy”, Sam Smith and Kim Petras
4. “Ella Baila Sola”, Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma
5. “Boy’s a Liar Part 2”, Ice Spice and Pink Pantheress
Hum to Search: Top Songs:
1. “Seven Nation Army”, White Stripes
2. “Kill Bill”, SZA
3. “Ballin’”, Mustard
4. “Tom’s Diner”, AnnenMayKantereit
5. “Until I Found You”, Stephen Sanchez
Musicians:
1. Jason Aldean
2. Ice Spice
3. Oliver Anthony
4. Peso Pluma
5. Joe Jonas
Athletes:
1. Damar Hamlin
2. Travis Kelce
3. Brock Purdy
4. Lamar Jackson
5. Jalen Hurts
You might have noticed a certain, GLARING omission from these lists: Taylor Swift. She was probably one of the most-searched people of the year in multiple categories.
But Google thought it would be LAME to just have Taylor on top all over the place. So they did their top TRENDS instead of most-searched.
A spokesperson said, quote, “Top trending lists make for more colorful and interesting data pulls and are generally better at identifying what people were curious about in 2023 relative to 2022.
“The ‘trending’ queries are the searches that had a high spike in traffic over a sustained period in 2023 as compared to 2022.
“Taylor Swift is someone who consistently has a high amount of Search interest, not someone who had a big spike in 2023 as compared to 2022.” (You can check out the Top 10 in these and all the other categories here.)