Pop Kings BTS have debuted at #1 on the United World Album Chart with 'BE', and have simultaneously topped the United World Singles Chart with "Life Goes On", while occupying the #2 slot of the chart with their former 8-week global chart topper "Dynamite" making history as the 1st Asian Act to do so! "Life Goes On" debuts at #1 on the United World Song chart with a massive score of 534,000 points after debuting at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week, the band's third #1 single in the US. BTS are now the fastest group to score 3 number-one hits since the Bee Gees in 1977-78. "Life Goes On" is the first foreign language song to debut atop the Hot 100. The song sold 150,000 units in pure sales in its first week, including 129,000 digital downloads and 20,000 physical copies. "Life Goes On" also debuted at #1 on the Billboard Digital Song Sales chart with 6 songs charting in the Top 10 and also topped the Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. US this week. "Life Goes On" debuted at #1 in Hungary, Scotland & Singapore, peaking at #1 on the Gaon Download chart and at #3 on the Gaon Digital chart in Korea. It also debuted at #3 in Lithuania, at #8 in Canada, at #10 on the Official UK Chart and the Japan Hot 100, at #11 on the Rolling Stone Top 100 in the US, at #16 in Belgium (Flanders), at #19 in Ireland, at #20 in Greece, at #23 in Switzerland, at #27 in Australia, at #30 in Slovakia, at #33 in New Zealand, at #34 in Austria, at #37 in Germany, at #49 in the Czech Republic, at #59 in Argentina, at #61 in Italy, at #71 in the Netherlands, at #76 in Spain, at #80 in France and at #87 in Sweden. The song also debuted at #1 on the Worldwide iTunes Song Chart and held atop the chart for 9 days. "Life Goes On" also peaked at #3 on the Global Spotify chart and has over 52 million streams so far!
BTS's former no.1 smash hit, "Dynamite" rebounds two spots to #2 with 325,000 points (up 30%) after topping the chart for 8 weeks previously! It's BTS's first english language bop and their most successful single to date! It is the 1st song in 2020 to sell over 1 million downloads and scored the biggest global sales debut of 2020! It also had the biggest debut of 2020 on Global Spotify with 7.778 million first-day streams, surpassing Taylor Swift's 7.742 million streams of "Cardigan"! "Dynamite" has over 414 million streams on Spotify so far! "Dynamite" also held atop the new Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart for 5 weeks and made history when it topped the US Hot 100 for 3 weeks and held in the US Hot 100 Top 10 for 9 weeks, setting a new record for Korean Artists.
Bad Bunny
's reggaeton smash hit, "Dákiti", ft.
Jhay Cortez
dips 2-3. "Dákiti" is #2 on the new Billboard Global 200 after topping the chart for 2 weeks and is #3 this week on the Billboard Global Chart Excl. US! The Song holds at #1 for a 7th day atop the Global Spotify Chart and has already garnered over 53,344,093 million streams on the platform!
Former United World chart topper, "Mood", by
24kGoldn
feat.
iann dior
, dips 3-4 in its 14th week on the chart. "Mood" also held for a whopping great 35 days atop the Global Spotify chart and has over 527 million streams so far on the platform! Released on July 24, 2020, the song went viral on TikTok, and became a chart success worldwide, topping the Billboard US Hot 100 and the Canadian Hot 100 for 5 whole weeks! it also topped the weekly charts in Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK!
Ariana Grande
holds at #5 for a 3rd week with her global smash hit "Positions" which debuted at #1 atop the United World Chart! The song also debuted atop the US Billboard Hot 100, Grande's fifth US No. 1 single with her becoming the 1st artist to have five No. 1 debut singles on the chart and for being the only artist to have the lead singles of all her albums debut within the top-10 of the chart. It also debuted at #1 on the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S., making "Positions" the first song to debut atop both charts and the Hot 100 simultaneously! "Positions" holds at #1 in the UK for a 6th consecutive week! "Positions" also topped the weekly charts in Australia, Canada, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Malaysia, New Zealand, Ireland, Israel & Singapore, peaking within the Top 10 in 20 other countries.
The 2nd highest debut of the week comes from
Shawn Mendes
' new smash hit "Monster" with
Justin Bieber
off his brand new album 'Wonder' which dropped yesterday and debuted at #1 on both the Worldwide iTunes and Apple Music Album charts! "Monster" debuts with 220,000 points on the United World Chart after landing at No.8 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it Mendes' 8th top 10 and Bieber’s 21st in the U.S. The song debuted at No.1 in Denmark and Canada, making its Mendes' 2nd No.1 single and Bieber's 11th in the latter. Monster also debuted in the Top 10 in over 15 countries.
Last week's chart topper,
Billie Eilish
, drops 1-7 with her new "Therefore I Am", her 2nd global #1 following "Bad Guy" and her 5th Top 10 hit! The song was written by Eilish and her brother
Finneas O'connell
. "Therefore I Am" debuted at No. 2 on the Global 200 with 72.8 million streams in its first full tracking week, ending Nov. 19, following its Nov. 12 release. The Song peaked at #2 on the Billboard US Hot 100. The Song debuted at #1 in the US on the Rolling Stone Top 100 and at #1 in Hungary, Ireland, New Zealand and Slovakia.
MALUMA
's "Hawái" slips 6-8 this week on the World United Chart, after peaking at #3 two weeks ago after the release of the new remix of the song by Canadian superstar The Weeknd. "Hawái" was the first song to hit #1 on the new Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart and reached #3 on the Billboard Global 200 and number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 after the Weeknd's Remix. "Hawái" has so far hit over 418 Million streams on Spotify after breaking several streaming records in Latin America! Released by Sony Music Latin on July 29, 2020 as the 2nd single from Maluma's 5th studio album, 'Papi Juancho', the song topped the charts in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and Spain!
The Weeknd
's "Blinding Lights" holds at #9 fter 17 weeks on the chart! It's the Song's 48th week inside the Global Top 10, more weeks than any other artist inside the United World Chart Top 10! Released on November 29, 2019 as the 2nd Single off his album chart topping album, 'After Hours', "Blinding Lights" peaked at #1 in 34 countries, including the US for 4 weeks, becoming The Weeknd's 5th number one single in America. The Song peaked for 7 weeks at #1 in Canada. It also became his first #1 single in Germany where it held atop the Official chart for 10 weeks. It also held at #1 on the Official UK chart for 8 weeks and at #1 on the ARIA Singles chart in Australia for 11 weeks. A remix ft. Spanish singer-songwriter
Rosalía
was released on December 4, 2020. "Blinding Lights" has now surpassed 1.658 Billion streams on Spotify, the most for a song over the past year! Its the most successful song of 2020 and the Weeknd's biggest hit so far!
#InternetMoney's "Lemonade" ft
Gunna
&
#DonTolliver holds at #10 after peaking at #8 three weeks ago! "Lemonade" was released on August 14, 2020, as the 2nd single from Internet Money's debut studio album, 'B4 the Storm'. The song peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and hit #1 in the UK and Portugal. The song also hit the Top 10 in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand & Sweden, becoming the biggest hit single for Internet Money, Don Toliver and Nav.
