Harry Styles reigns for an 11th week atop the United World Chart with his Global smash hit "As It Was", scoring another 401.000 points, and 4.553.000 so far, including 247K points from streaming, 39K points from sales and 115K points from airplay (up 4%)! "As It Was" rises to #4 on the year-to-list, behind "ABCDEFU" by Gayle (4.828.000 points), "Heat Waves" by Glass Animals (4,910,000 points), and "Stay" by Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber (4,979,000 points)!
"As It Was" returns for a 10th week to #1 on the Billboard Global 200, the longest run of any song in 2022. It is the 2nd song to reign double-digit weeks so far, after The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” which has topped the chart for 11 weeks starting last August. "As It Was" slips 1-2 on the Billboard Global Excl.US after scoring a record-breaking 11th week atop the chart last week, the longest run since the chart began!
"As It Was" is the first #1 Single released this year, and was written by Styles and the song's producers Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson. It's the lead track from Harry's new album' 'Harry's House'! "As It Was" earned the Guinness World Records title for the most streamed track on Spotify within 24 hours by a male artist, and broke the Apple Music streaming record for most 1st-day streams for a 2022 release. It's the fastest song to reach 200, 300, 400, 500, 600 & 700 Million streams on Spotify!
"As It Was" scores a 7th week atop the US Hot 100, and is now the longest running #1 hit on the Hot 100 in 2022! "As It Was" debuted at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100, marking the first song of 2022 to debut atop the chart, and became Styles' 2nd #1 after "Watermelon Sugar" (2019), simultaneously charting atop Streaming Songs. Styles joins The Beatles as the only British acts ever with 4 concurrent Hot 100 top 10s.
"As It Was" dips 1-2 on the Official UK chart after debuting with the biggest sales and streaming week of any single in 2022 and holding at #1 for 10 consecutive weeks! It's Harry's 2nd UK #1 hit, after "Sign of the Times". "As It Was" holds at #2 in Australia for a 2nd week after topping the ARIA Singles Chart for 7 weeks. The Brit’s previous #1 single ‘Sign Of The Times’ (#1 Apr. ’17) spent only one week in the top spot. "As It was" has also reached #1 in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland, and has reached #2 in Argentina, Bolivia, Finland, Japan (Billboard Hot Overseas), Norway, Peru & South Africa! It's a top 10 hit in Costa Rica, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Indonesia, Italy, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Uuguay & Vietnam. The Song has been certified 2x Platinum in Australia, (140.000) & the US (2 Million) and Platinum in Italy (100.000), New Zealand (30.000), Portugal (10.000), Spain (60.000) & the UK (600.000). It's already Gold in Denmark (45.000), France (100.00) & Switzerland (10.000). It has also been certified Gold in Greece for 1M streams!
"Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" by Kate Bush holds at #2 for a 2nd week on the United World Chart with 269,000 points following its prominent feature in the fourth season of 'Stranger Things', an American science fiction horror series on Netflix. “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” originally released in 1985, is #3 this week on the Global 200, after topping the chart last week and dips 2-3 on the Billboard Global Excl.US. The song rises to #1 on the Official UK Chart, scoring a 2nd week atop the ARIA chart in Australia. It has entered the top 10 for the first time in Canada & New Zealand after reaching a new peak at #4 on the US Hot 100, Bush's first top-five hit on the chart. "As It Was" dips 4-5 this week on the Billboard chart.
This week's highest debut comes from BTS' new album 'Proof'. The album's lead single 'Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)' lands at #3 on the United World Chart with 263,000 points, BTS' 12th Top 10 smash hit! "Yet To Come" debuts atop the Billboard Global Excl.US and lands at #13 on the US Hot 100! BTS has now earned 25 entries on the Hot 100, the most among Korean acts!
Bad Bunny's 'Me Porto Bonito" ft. Chencho Corleone dips 3-4 on the United World Chart scoring another 215.000 points. "Me Porto Bonito" has peaked at #7 so far on the US Hot 100, becoming the fourth-highest charting track from 'Un Verano Sin Ti' behind "Moscow Mule", "Tití Me Preguntó" and "Después de la Playa", which peaked at numbers 4, 5 and 6, respectively. It also topped the US Hot Latin Songs chart and peaked at #2 on the Billboard Global 200. "Me Porto Bonito" has reached number one in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru.
Bad Bunny's "Tití Me Preguntó" dips 4-5 on the United World Chart scoring another 204.000 points! It was first released on May 6, 2022, by Rimas Entertainment as the 4th track off Bunny's fifth studio album 'Un Verano Sin Ti' before being released on June 1, 2022, as the 2nd single from the album. The song was solely written by Benito Martínez. "Tití Me Preguntó" charted at #5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 dated May 21, 2022, becoming the second-highest charting track from Un Verano Sin Ti behind "Moscow Mule", which peaked at #4. Additionally, it peaked at #2 on the US Hot Latin Songs chart as well as peaking at #4 on the Billboard Global 200 and #1 in Spain!
Lizzo's "About Damn Time" holds at 6 after scoring another 185.000 points in its 7th week on the chart. "About Damn Time" was released on April 14, 2022, via Nice Life Recordings and Atlantic Records as the lead single from the Rapper's upcoming 4th studio album 'Special' (2022). The song lifts 5-4 this week on the Billboard Hot 100 and is #8 on the Billboard Global 200 after peaking at 6. The song has reached the top 3 in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, and top 10 in Lithuania & Slovakia! The song has already been certified Platinum in Canada for 80.000 sales units, Gold in New Zealand for 15.000 and Silver in the UK for 200.000!
Bad Bunny's "Ojitos Lindos" with Bomba Estereo slips 5-7 on the United World Chart scoring another 181.000 points in its 6th week on the tally. The song slips 5-7 on the Billboard Global 200 and 4-6 on the Billboard Global Excl'US.
New entry at #8 on the United World Chart for "Glimpse Of Us" by Japanese-born singer, songwriter, rapper, comedian and YouTuber Joji. The chilling piano ballad debuts with 179,000 points. It lands at #6 on this week's Billboard Global 200 and #9 on the Billboard Global Excl.US! It also lands at #10 on this week's Billboard Hot 100, Joji's 1st top 10 entry.
Shakira's "Te Felicito" ft. Rauw Alejandro lifts 13-9 on the United World Chart with 179.000 points, scoring this week's largest points increase, up 25%! It's the lead single from her upcoming twelfth studio album, and lands her first Top 10 hit in 8 years!
Glass Animals' "Heat Waves" slips 8-10 on the United World Chart scoring another 171.000 units in its 54th week on the chart after previously holding for 2 weeks at #1! The song is #2 on the year-to-date list after the Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber's "STAY" with a total of 4,910,000 points! Heat Waves", released as a single from their 3rd studio album 'Dreamland' on 29 June 2020, is the group's most successful track to date. By September 2021, the song had accumulated Over 1 Billion streams on Spotify! It spent 7 weeks atop the Australian ARIA Singles Chart, and was later certified as the #1 song for 2021 in Australia, holding atop the chart from March 2021 until April 2021. It returned to #1 in March 2022, and is the first song ever to stay in the Australian top 10 for over a year. In the United States, "Heat Waves" peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated 12 March 2022, after a record-breaking 59-week climb to the top, dethroning Encanto's "We Don't Talk About Bruno" after 5 consecutive weeks at #1. The Song held for 5 weeks at #1 on the US Hot 100 and holds at #6 this week. "Heat Waves" reached #5 on both the Official UK & Irish Singles Charts, and hit #1 on the Billboard Global 200 in the issue dated 5 March 2022, peaking at #1 on the Global Excl. US chart. "Heat Waves" has also reached #1 in Canada, Czech Republic, India, Lithuania, Luxembourg & Switzerland. “Heat Waves” has peaked at #2 in Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, the netherlands, New Zealand, Norway & Singapore and reached #5 on the UK Official Singles Chart! It was a top 10 hit in several other European countries including Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania & Sweden. The song has been certified 10x Platinum in Australia for 700.000 sales units, 8x Platinum in Canada for 640.000, 4x times Platinum in New Zealand (120.000), 3x times Platinum in Austria (90.000), Portugal (30.000) & USA (3.000.000), 2x Platinum in Germany (800.000) & the UK (1.2000.000), Platinum in Denmark (90.000), Italy (70.000), Poland (50.000), Spain (40.000) & Greece (2 Million certified streaming units) and Gold in Sweden (4 Million streams).
