Cardi B Tops First-Ever Billboard Global 200 Chart With 100.9M “WAP” Streams
Cardi B is making history again as she tops the first-ever Billboard Global 200 chart with 100.9 million “WAP” streams and 23,000 downloads, worldwide.
In addition to their new Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart (which includes all territories minus the U.S.), Billboard launched their newest chart, the Global 200; which Billboard says, “ranks songs based on streaming and sales activity pulled from more than 200 territories around the world.”
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While Cardi’s “WAP,” featuring Megan Thee Stallion, leads the charts in its first week, South Korean boy band BTS comes in second with “Dynamite,” racking up 83.4 million streams and 36,000 sold. Finishing off the top five, 24kGoldn‘s “Mood” came in third (60.2 million streams, 12,000 sold), Maluma‘s “Hawái,” fourth (94 million streams, 3,000 sold), and Drake‘s “Laugh Now Cry Later,” ft. Lil Durk, fifth (51.4 million streams, 6,000 sold).
Speaking on the new global rankings chart, Silvio Pietroluongo, who runs Billboard’s charts business, says, “We want to present an extension of the Hot 100 on a global scale.”
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