Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” notches a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. A week earlier, the ballad about flashing pearly whites just before reaching the pearly gates became Gaga’s sixth Hot 100 leader and Mars’ ninth.
With the coronation, Gaga joined the elite company of Janet and Michael Jackson as the only artists with multiple Hot 100 No. 1s in three distinct decades, with Gaga now boasting two leaders each in the 2000s, ‘10s and ‘20s.
“I am so incredibly grateful that my song ‘Die With a Smile’ with Bruno Mars, my friend, is No. 1 on the Hot 100,” Gaga beamed on TikTok Jan. 7. “I can’t believe I’ve had two No. 1s in three different decades that I’ve been releasing my music in this profession. I’m so honored to be an artist and to have had your ears for this long. Thank you for listening and dancing and making your art along with mine.”
More reasons to smile: Morgan Wallen’s “Smile” bounds from No. 27 to No. 4 in its second week on the Hot 100, reflecting the New Year’s Eve release’s first full week of tracking. The song becomes the country crossover star’s 12th top 10 on the chart.
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“Die With a Smile,” on Streamline/Interscope/Atlantic/ICLG, totaled 61.8 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 4% week-over-week), 28 million official streams (up 3%) and 5,000 sold (down 8%) in the United States Jan. 3-9.
The track tallies a second week at No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart, holds at its No. 2 high on Radio Songs and lifts 4-3 on Digital Song Sales, which it led for two weeks.
Notably, “Die With a Smile” is Lady Gaga’s second Hot 100 No. 1 duet ballad, following “Shallow,” with Bradley Cooper. The latter, from the movie A Star Is Born, starring the pair, led for a week in March 2019.
Gaga is just the second artist to top the Hot 100 with two duet ballads between a male and female soloist and no other billed acts. Ariana Grande initiated the honor via “Stuck With U” with Justin Bieber, in May 2020, and “Die for You” with The Weeknd (after she joined for its remix), in March 2023.
(Gaga and Grande crowned the Hot 100 together with the uptempo “Rain on Me” in June 2020.)
Morgan Wallen’s “Smile” surges 27-4 in its second week on the Hot 100, following the first full week of tracking for the song, which arrived on Dec. 31. It drew 24.7 million streams and 2.7 million in airplay audience and sold 7,000 Jan. 3-9.
“Smile” becomes Wallen’s 12th Hot 100 top 10. It’s his third consecutive stand-alone top 10, after “Love Somebody” launched at No. 1 in November and “Lies Lies Lies” debuted at its No. 7 high last July.
Happy new year! With both “Die With a Smile” and “Smile” in the Hot 100’s top 10, and top five, songs with the word “smile” in their titles chart in the tiers together for the first time.
Here’s a recap of all such cheery chart top 10s:
Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” holds at No. 2 on the Hot 100, following a record-tying 19 weeks at No. 1 beginning last July. It rules Radio Songs for a 24th week (66.2 million in audience, down 3%). It also tops the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart for a 30th week, becoming just the third song to reach the milestone, following Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant To Be” (50 weeks at No. 1 in 2017-18) and Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road” (34 weeks, 2017).
Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” repeats at No. 3 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2. It leads the multimetric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for a 23rd week each.
ROSÉ and Bruno Mars’s “APT.” keeps at its No. 5 Hot 100 high; Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which led the Hot 100 for a week in March 2024 – and became the year’s top song – slips 4-6; and Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” is steady at No. 7, after hitting No. 3, as it tops the multimetric Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts for a fifth week each.
Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Gracie Abrams’ “That’s So True” dips to No. 8 from its No. 6 best; Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help,” featuring Wallen, backtracks 8-9, following six weeks at No. 1 beginning upon its debut last May; and Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” descends 9-10, after reaching No. 3.