Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars Rule Billboard Global Charts for Fourth Week, The Weeknd Debuts in Top 10

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” scores a fourth total and consecutive week at No. 1 on both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts.

Plus, The Weeknd’s “Dancing in the Flames” fires up, debuting at No. 10 on each tally.

The Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts, which began in September 2020, rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by Luminate. The Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the United States.

Chart ranks are based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music services, as well as download sales, the latter of which reflect purchases from full-service digital music retailers from around the world, with sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites excluded from the charts’ calculations.

“Die With a Smile” tops the Global 200 with 117.4 million streams (up 5% week-over-week) and 9,000 sold (up 1%) worldwide Sept. 13-19. The ballad, released Aug. 16, is Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ first No. 1 each since the chart began.

Notably, the duet has drawn over 100 million streams globally in each of the last three weeks. It joins only Sabrina Carpenter’s “Please Please Please” (three weeks, June-July) and Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” (three, May-July) as the only songs to achieve three such weeks this year. Plus, “Die With a Smile” has gained in each of its chart weeks, having started with 75.2 million on the Aug. 31 survey and rising, respectively each week, to 97.2 million, 105.8 million, 111.4 million and 117.4 million; it’s the first non-holiday song to link at least three consecutive weeks of 100 million streams with gains in each week since The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” did so for four straight frames in August-September 2021.

Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” holds at No. 2 on the Global 200, following three weeks at No. 1 beginning in August.

Sabrina Carpenter claims three songs in the Global 200’s top 10 for a fourth week: “Taste” rebounds 4-3 after reaching No. 2; “Espresso” rises 5-4, following three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning in June; and “Please Please Please” holds at No. 6, after two weeks at No. 1 also starting in June. She’s the first artist to triple up in the top 10 over four weeks in 2024; next up, Eilish and Taylor Swift each boast two such weeks this year.

Chappell Roan earns her first top five Global 200 hit, as “Good Luck, Babe!” pushes 7-5 with 54.9 million streams (up 10%) and 7,000 sold (up 23%) worldwide. The pop singer-songwriter performed the song Sept. 11 at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, where she also won for best new artist.

The Weeknd’s “Dancing in the Flames” launches at No. 10 on the Global 200 with 46.6 million streams and 18,000 sold worldwide following its Sept. 13 release. The song becomes his 12th top 10 since the chart began.

“Die With a Smile” leads Global Excl. U.S. with 92.9 million streams (up 8%) and 6,000 sold (up 2%) outside the U.S. Sept. 13-19. As on the Global 200, it became Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ first No. 1 each since the survey started.

Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” ascends 3-2 after three weeks atop Global Excl. U.S. beginning in August; Linkin Park’s “The Emptiness Machine” slips 2-3 in its second week on the chart; Carpenter’s “Espresso” is steady at No. 4, following eight nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning in May; and Karol G’s “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” repeats at No. 5, after reaching No. 2.

Carpenter’s “Taste” holds at No. 6 on Global Excl. U.S. (after hitting No. 4) and “Please Please Please” keeps at No. 7 (following a week at No. 1 in June); already the only artist with multiple weeks with three songs in the top 10 simultaneously this year, she adds a fourth week achieving the feat.

As on the Global 200, The Weeknd’s “Dancing in the Flames” debuts at No. 10 on Global Excl. U.S. It opens with 31.5 million streams and 4,000 sold outside the U.S., becoming his 10th top 10 on the chart.

The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Sept. 28, 2024) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Sept. 24. For both charts, the top 100 titles are available to all readers on Billboard.com, while the complete 200-title rankings are visible on Billboard Pro, Billboard’s subscription-based service. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.

This article was originally published by Billboard U.S.