US Songwriting Chart – 7 January 2017

José Feliciano: this week’s highest new entry with Feliz Navidad. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Nationaal Archief

Our Hot Hitmakers partnership with Royalty Exchange recognises the top songwriters behind the biggest hits on this week’s Hot 100

While J. Cole continued his No 1 spot atop the list of the week’s top songwriters, as expected two new Christmas songs leveraged the holiday cheer push to make their debuts. José Feliciano entered at No 11 with his seminal classic Feliz Navidad, while the late George Michael entered at No 13 with the now more poignant Last Christmas. Meanwhile, Johnny Marks rocketed up to No. 2 with Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree.

Finally, Radric Davis – better known as Gucci Mane – entered at No 20 with writing credits on three hits performed by three different artists: Chris Brown, Rae Sremmurd and himself.

Every track charting on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week is given a point value, which is then split equally among the songwriters listed for each, and then ranked in order of those totals.

The Hot Hitmakers chart is repurposed with kind permission of Royalty Exchange, the online music royalties marketplace – royaltyexchange.com

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