"Billie Jean" earned another 224,000 points this week on the United World chart, including 190,000 points from streaming, 29,000 points from sales and 5,000 points from global airplay (up 17%)! It's the third time that 'Billie Jean' has reached the top 3 of the United World chart. The song was 7 weeks at No. 1 in March/April 1983, and placed No.2 on the Year-End Chart 1983. After Michael Jackson's sad passing, it re-peaked at No. 3 in the calendar week 28, 2009! Michael's "Beat It" lifts 8-7 on this week's United World chart scoring another 172,000 points while his iconic hit "Human Nature" lifts to #23 (+3) with 112,000 points! His epic "Smooth Criminal" holds at #35 with 96,000 points while his smash hit "Chicago" enters the chart at #37 with 95,000 points! Michael's self-written "Billie Jean" was released by Epic Records on January 2, 1983, as the 2nd single from Jackson's 6th studio album, 'Thriller' (1982) and was produced by Jackson and Quincy Jones. "Billie Jean" reached #1 in the UK, Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, Switzerland and Belgium, and top ten in many other countries, becoming one of the best-selling singles of 1983, and Michael's best-selling single, helping 'Thriller' become the best-selling album of all time. "Billie Jean" was certified diamond in the US, selling 18 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the highest-selling singles of all time. On May 15, 2026, “Billie Jean” surged back to the top of the international charts, after the huge success of the Biopic 'Michael', and reached No. 1 on the Global Spotify Chart for the very first time. It also reached No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 shortly afterwards, and #3 on the Billboard Global Excl. US! "Billie Jean" rebounds 8-3 on this week's Billboard Global 200 and holds at its peak at #2 on the Billboard Global Excl'US! Upon its release, "Billie Jean" reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and topped the Billboard Hot Black Singles chart within three weeks, becoming Michael's fastest-rising No. 1 single since his time as a member of the Jackson 5. It rockets 32-19 on this week's Hot 100 with Michael extending his record as the only artist in history to earn a new Billboard Hot 100 entry in six consecutive decades (1970s–2020s)! Billie Jean lifts 4-3 on this week's Official UK singles chart, after peaking at #1! "Billie Jean" has so far reached #1 in Australia, Belgium (Flanders), Canada, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Middle East & North Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the UAE, the UK & the US. It has also reached #2 in Austria, Finland, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa & Sweden, #3 in Bolivia, Ecuador, Italy, Lithuania & Zimbabwe, #4 in Peru & Portugal, #5 in Saudi Arabia, #6 in Norway & Slovakia, #7 in Chile, #8 in Denmark & Jamaica, #10 in Malaysia, #11 in Costa Rica, #12 in Romania, #14 in Czech Republic & North Africa, #15 in New Zealand, #18 in Mexico, #23 in Singapore, #28 in Poland, #36 in Croatia, #38 in Belgium (Wallonia), #47 in Israel, #70 in Kazakhstan & #76 in Japan! It has been certified 3x Diamond in Mexico (1,05M), Diamond in the US (10M), 9x Platinum in Australia (630k), 7x Platinum in New Zealand (210k), 5x Platinum in the UK (3M), 4x Platinum in Denmark (360k) & Spain (400k), 3x Platinum in Portugal (75k), 2x Platinum in Italy (140k), Platinum in Austria (100K) & France (1M) and 3x Gold in Germany (900k) and Gold in Japan (100k) & Spain (20k)! The "Billie Jean" music video, directed by Steve Barron, was the first performance by a black artist to be aired non stop on MTV and helped videos become an integral part of popular music marketing. "Billie Jean" won 2 Grammy Awards and an American Music Award. Billboard ranked it as the No. 2 song for 1983. In 2000, Rolling Stone and MTV ranked "Billie Jean" the 6th-greatest pop song since 1963. Rolling Stone placed it at No. 58 on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004, and at No. 44 in its updated 2021 list. The song was also included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
'7TH YEAR: A Moment of Stillness in the Thornes' debuted at No. 1 on the United World chart with 591,000 sales points and tops this week's Billboard US World Albums chart! The Album debuted at No. 1 on the Circle Album chart after selling huge equivalent album units of 1,892,350 in S. Korea in its 1st week! It debuted atop the Oricon Albums chart, selling a whopping great 229,996 physical units in Japan in its first week! '7TH YEAR: A Moment of Stillness in the Thornes' scored the Top New Entry at No. 3 on this week's Billboard 200 with 69,000 equivalent album units, marking the band's 8th top 10 Album on the chart! It's the best-selling Album of the week in the US with 67,000 pure sales, and debuted at No. 1 on Top Album Sales! The Album has reached No. 1 so far in S. Korea & Japan, #3 in the U.S., #16 in Belgium Flanders, #20 on the official German Pop Albums chart, #22 in Belgium Wallonia, #24 in Austria and #36 on the Official German chart!
"SWIM" is the lead single from the group's 6th Korean-language studio album and history-making masterpiece 'Arirang'. "Swim" debuted at #1 on the Global Spotify chart with 14,644,352 times on its first day of release, and hit 100 million streams on the platform in just 8 days, becoming the fastest song of 2026 to achieve this! "Swim" also hit #1 on iTunes in over 100 countries. The song debuted at #2 on the Official Singles Chart in the UK, scoring the group's 5th top-10 hit and highest peak ever!
"SWIM" has so far reached #1 in Germany, #2 in Austria, Puerto Rico and the UK, #3 in Switzerland, #4 in Australia, #7 in S. Korea, #9 in New Zealand, #19 in Ireland, #20 in the Netherlands, #23 in Finland, #24 in Sweden, #34 in Belgium (Wallonia) & Norway, #36 in Italy, #50 in Belgium (Flanders), #66 in Russia ad #96 in Lithuania!
"The Fate Of Ophelia" scores a 12th week atop the United World chart with 224,000 points, including 124,000 points from streaming, 27,000 points from sales and 73,000 points from global airplay. The song reigns atop the year-to-date list with 3,503,000 points. It's Taylor's 9th No. 1 hit on the Chart! "The Fate of Ophelia" debuted atop the United World Chart with massive points of 689,000 with Taylor making history as the 1st Artist to debut 7 songs simultaneously in the United World Top 10, breaking an all-time record set by the Beatles 60 years ago with 6 tracks in the Top 10! "The Fate Of Ophelia" broke the global records for the most streamed song in a day and a week in Spotify history upon its release, becoming the first and only song ever ever to draw 30 million streams in a single day! It has topped Global Spotify for 78 days and ties with "Golden" as the 14th Most streamed song in Global Spotify chart history! "The fate Of Ophelia" has topped the Billboard Global 200 for 7 weeks so far, her sole longest run at #1 surpassing the 4-week reign of "Anti-Hero"! It has topped the Global Excl. U.S. for 8 weeks, her longest run at #1 on the chart! It has also topped the Hot 100 for a Milestone 10 weeks becoming her longest leading Hot 100 hit! It's Taylor's 14th chart topper, with Taylor now tying Rihanna as the Artist with the 3rd most #1 Hot 100 hits in history after the Beatles (20) & Mariah Carey (19)! Taylor holds the most Hot 100 No. 1s this Decade (9) and the Most weeks at #1 in the 2020s (29)! The song was Taylor's 30th #1 on the Digital Song Sales chart, with Taylor holding the record for the Most No. 1s in Digital Song Sales history, now 31 with "Opalite"! On Pop Airplay, it was the first song in history to debut in the top-10 and Taylor's record-extending 14th No. 1 single. It has also peaked at #1 for 4 weeks on Adult Pop Airplay. In the UK, "The Fate Of Ophelia" debuted at #1 with 132,000 first-week units, scoring the largest 1st week sales of 2025, and the largest week of Taylor's career! It has spent 7 non-consecutive weeks atop the chart, Taylor's longest-running UK #1 song! "Opalite" is #28 this week on the UK chart! In Germany, "The Fate of Ophelia debuted at #1 and holds in the Top 3 after 13 weeks atop the chart so far! In France, "The Fate Of Ophelia" debuted at #4, becoming her highest-charting solo single, surpassing "Shake It Off" (2014)! It is still in the Top 30 at #29 and has been certified Diamond in France for 333,333 sales units! In Australia, "The Fate of Ophelia" debuted atop the chart and has spent 6 weeks at #1 so far! It lifts to #13 (+1) after 24 weeks on the chart! The Fate of Ophelia" became Taylor's first #1 single in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands. It has spent 15 weeks at #1 in Canada, 14 weeks at #1 in Switzerland, 13 weeks at #1 in Germany, 12 weeks at #1 in Austria, 10 weeks at #1 in Norway and the Netherlands, 9 weeks at #1 on the IRMA chart in Ireland, 8 weeks at #1 in Belgium (Flanders) and Singapore, 6 weeks atop the ARIA chart in Australia and Sweden and 5 weeks at #1 in Luxembourg, Malaysia and the Czech Republic. It has so far reached #1 in 40+ countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium (Flanders), Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia, France (Airplay chart), Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy (Airplay chart), Latin America Anglo Airplay chart, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, UK, the USA & Vietnam! The single has been certified Diamond in France, 3x platinum in Canada, 2x platinum in Australia, New Zealand & Portugal, Platinum in Austria, Denmark, Greece, Poland, Spain & the UK and Gold in Belgium, Germany & Italy!
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