"STAY" by The Kid LAROI. and Justin Bieber is #1 for a 9th week on the United World Chart, with massive points of 422,000, including 289,000 from streaming, 36,000 sales points and 97,000 points from global airplay. The song has racked up a total of 5,168,000 points after 13 weeks on the chart and is now #9 on the year-to-date list! “Stay” returned to #1 this week on the Billboard Global 200 chart for a 10th week, becoming the longest running #1 hit in Billboard Global 200 chart history drawing 100.1 Million streams and selling 15.700 downloads worldwide! "STAY" is the first track in 2021 to score 9 weeks of over 100 million global streams, ie. 106.2 milllion (Oct 9), 115.6 million (Oct. 2), 115.7 million (Sept. 25), 119.8 million (Sept. 18), 125.7 million (Sept. 11), 124.9 million (Sept. 4), 123.7 million (Aug. 28) and 108.5 million (Aug. 21)! "Stay” rebounds 2-1 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. list, topping the chart for an 8th week!
"Stay” was released via Grade A Productions and Columbia Records on July 9, 2021 as the lead single from Laroi's reloaded mixtape, 'F*ck Love’. The song marks the 2nd collab between Laroi and Bieber, after Bieber's song, "Unstable", off his 6th studio album, 'Justice', which was released in March 2021. "Stay" rebounds 2-1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a 7th week at #1, tying with Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder’s "Ebony and Ivory" (1982) for the 2nd-longest No. 1 run for a song by two or more male lead soloists in the chart's 63-year history! It’s Bieber's longest run atop the chart as a lead artist! "Stay" earned 23.2 million U.S. streams, 7,400 downloads and 86.4 million radio airplay audience impressions the week ending Oct. 7, according to MRC Data! “Stay” dips 12-13 on the Official UK chart after peaking at #2 for 8 weeks behind Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits”, Laroi's 2nd top ten hit in Britain and Bieber's 27th. It's Laroi's joint-highest charting song in the UK along with "Without You". The song debuted at #1 on the ARIA Singles chart in Australia, and holds for an amazing 13th week atop the chart! It's Laroi's 2nd No.1 single in Australia after "Without You" topped the chart for a week in May and Bieber's 5th as a lead artist. "STAY" debuted atop the New Zealand Singles Chart, securing Laroi's first No. 1 single in the country and Bieber's 11th overall. "STAY" has topped the weekly Singles charts in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Israel, Latvia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea and Sweden. It has also peaked at #2 in Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, South Africa & Switzerland and has reached the Top 10 in Bolivia, Croatia, France, Honduras, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal & Russia. "STAY" has already been certified double Platinum in the US for over 2 MILLION sales units! It has also gone 3x Platinum in Australia (210,000) 2x Platinum in Italy (140,000), and and Platinum in Denmark (90,000), New Zealand (30,000), Portugal (10,000), Spain (40,000) & Switzerland for 20,000 sales units! It is already Gold in Germany with 200,000 sales units!
Last week’s highest debut, “Love Nwantiti (Ah Ah Ah)” by Nigerian singer, songwriter and producer Chukwuka Ekweani, better known as CKay, jumps 5-2 with 289,000 points, this week’s largest points increase! The song lifts 4-2 on the Global 200 and 3-2 on the Global Excl. U.S., both new peaks with “Love Nwantiti (Ah Ah Ah)” becoming the 1st African song to reach #2 in the history of Billboard's 2 global charts! It is also the No. 1 song on this week’s Global Spotify and the #1 song on the YouTube Global Chart, the 1st Nigerian song ever to reach No. 1, setting a new all time record for most global views by a Nigerian song in a week ie. 73.7 million!
Ed Sheeran's 'Bad Habits' holds at #3 in its 15th week on the United World Chart, scoring another 274.000 points after topping the chart for 3 consecutive weeks. "Bad Habits" lifts 5-4 on the Billboard Global 200 after a week atop the chart and 4x weeks at #2, and holds at #4 on the Billboard Global Excl. US after 5 weeks at #1. The song rebounds 6-5 this week on the US Hot 100 after peaking at 2!
Lil Nas X' 'Industry Baby', a collab with American rapper Jack Harlow, holds at #4, after 11 weeks on the United World Chart, scoring another 251.000 points. The song holds at #3 on the Billboard Global 200, remains at #5 on the Billboard Global Excl. US and rebounds 3-2 on the US Hot 100!
Last week's highest debut on the United World Chart, 'My Universe', a collab by British legendary rock Group Coldplay and Korean mega stars, BTS, slips 2-5 this week, scoring another 237.000 points! It's the 12th United World Top 10 hit for Coldplay as a lead act! “My Universe” which scored a Billboard All Kill last week, debuting at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the Billboard Global 200 and the Billboard Global Excl. U.S simultaneously, is the 1st Song by a British Band to debut at #1 on the US Hot 100 and the 1st collab by 2 lead groups to top the chart in Billboard Hot 100 history! This week the song slips 1-12 on the US Hot 100, 1-5 on the Billboard Global 200 chart and 1-3 on the Billboard Global Excl. US. “My Universe” also debuted last week atop the Rolling Stone Top 100 Song Chart marking both group’s 1st time atop the chart and holds for a 2nd week in the Top 10 at #8! BTS also made history as the 1st Korean Act to top the RS chart! The Song hit #1 in Hungary, #2 in South Korea and #3 in India, Japan (Hot 100) & the UK, scoring the biggest week of downloads in Gt. Britain in 2021! It also landed at #7 in Australia & Belgium (Flanders), at #9 in Canada, at #10 in El Salvador, at #11 in Switzerland, at #12 in Uruguay, at #13 in Germany, at #14 in Norway, #18 in South Korea and #19 in New Zealand & Sweden.
Ed Sheeran’s new “Shivers” rebounds 7-6 in its 4th week on the United World Chart, scoring another 204,000 points! The Song holds atop the Official UK Singles Chart and the Irish Irma chart for a 4th consecutive week, and rebounds 6-5 on the ARIA chart in Australia. “Shivers” rebounds 14-11 on the US Hot 100, and holds at #6 on the Billboard Global 200 and the Billboard Global Excl. US!
Farruko's "Pepas" lifts 8-7 in its 11th week on the United World Chart after scoring another 190,000 points! The song rebounds 29-25 on the US Hot 100 and rebounds 9-8 on the Billboard Global 200, dipping 7-8 on the Billboard Global Excl. US.
Elton John & Dua Lipa’s “Cold Heart”, remixed by Australian Trio Pnau, enters the United World Top 10, up 11-8 after 8 weeks on the chart, scoring another 184.000 points! “Cold Heart” is Elton’s 28th Global Top 10 hit! "Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)' has already been certified Platinum in Australia, Gold in Italy and Silver in the UK! Elton has just broken the record for the first artist in Official UK Chart history to score a Top 10 single in six different decades! Elton now claims the longest span of top 40 Billboard Hot 100 hits excluding holiday fare: 50 years and 10 months!
Exactly 24 years ago, in October 1997, Elton’s hymn to Princess Diana, “Candle In The Wind”, broke all sales records in music history, becoming the Biggest Hit of All Time and holds that record till today!
"Beggin" by Italian Superstar Rock Group, Måneskin, which topped the United World Chart in week 29, holds at 9, scoring another 165.000 points in its 17th week on the chart. The song lifts 19-16 this week on the US Hot 100!
Olivia Rodrigo's "good 4 u" holds at #10 on the United World Chart, scoring another 165.000 points after topping the chart for 6 consecutive weeks! The song rebounds 7-6 on the US Hot 100!