Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars’ ‘Die With a Smile’ Scores Seventh Week Atop Billboard Global Charts
Written by djfrosty on October 14, 2024
Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” rules both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts for a seventh week.
The ballad ties for the longest Global 200 reign this year, matching the seven weeks that Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” notched at No. 1 in February-April. “Die With a Smile” is one week from potentially equaling the longest Global Excl. U.S. command in 2024, after only the eight-week stays for “Beautiful Things” (February-April) and Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” (May-July).
Meanwhile, “Die With a Smile” has topped the Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. for seven weeks consecutively, marking the longest uninterrupted run atop each tally this year.
The Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts, which began in September 2020, rank songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by Luminate. The Global 200 is inclusive of worldwide data and the Global Excl. U.S. chart comprises data from territories excluding the United States.
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Chart ranks are based on a weighted formula incorporating official-only streams on both subscription and ad-supported tiers of audio and video music services, as well as download sales, the latter of which reflect purchases from full-service digital music retailers from around the world, with sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites excluded from the charts’ calculations.
“Die With a Smile” leads the Global 200 with 115.5 million streams (down 2% week-over-week) and 8,000 sold (down 13%) worldwide Oct. 4-10. The song is Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ first No. 1 each since the chart began.
Notably, the duet has drawn over 100 million streams globally in each of the last six weeks – the most such frames for a song this year, doubling up on Carpenter’s “Please Please Please” and Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” each with three.
Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” holds at No. 2 on the Global 200, following three weeks at No. 1 beginning in August.
Carpenter claims three songs in the Global 200’s top 10 for a seventh week: “Taste,” up 4-3 after reaching No. 2; “Espresso” (5-4, following three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning in June); and “Please Please Please” (7-10, after two weeks at No. 1 also starting in June). She’s the first artist to triple up in the top 10 over seven weeks in 2024; Eilish and Taylor Swift follow with two such weeks each this year.
The Weeknd and Playboi Carti’s “Timeless” dips to No. 5 on the Global 200 a week after it debuted at No. 3.
“Die With a Smile” tops Global Excl. U.S. with 93.2 million streams (down 1%) and 5,000 sold (down 11%) outside the U.S. Oct. 4-10. As on the Global 200, the ballad became Gaga and Mars’ first No. 1 each since the survey started.
Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” keeps at No. 2 on Global Excl. U.S., following three weeks at No. 1 beginning in August; Carpenter’s “Espresso” maintains the No. 3 spot; and Karol G’s “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” climbs 5-4, after reaching No. 2.
Carpenter’s “Taste” rises 6-5 on Global Excl. U.S., after hitting No. 4, while “Please Please Please” pushes 10-9, following a week at No. 1 in June; already the only artist with multiple weeks with three songs in the top 10 simultaneously this year, she logs a seventh week earning such a triple.
The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Oct. 19, 2024) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Oct. 15. For both charts, the top 100 titles are available to all readers on Billboard.com, while the complete 200-title rankings are visible on Billboard Pro, Billboard’s subscription-based service. For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.