‘Wicked’ Standout ‘Defying Gravity’ No. 1 Again on Top Movie Songs Chart
Written by djfrosty on February 27, 2025
Cynthia Erivo’s Ariana Grande-featuring “Defying Gravity” from Wicked retains the No. 1 slot on Billboard’s Top Movie Songs chart, powered by Tunefind (a Songtradr company), for January 2025, ruling for a second month.
Rankings for the Top Movie Songs chart are based on song and film data provided by Tunefind and ranked using a formula blending that data with sales and streaming information tracked by Luminate during the corresponding period of January 2025. The ranking includes newly released films from the preceding three months.
After “Defying Gravity” rose to No. 1 on the December 2024 (it debuted at No. 2 on the November 2024 list) via 47 million official on-demand U.S. streams and 13,000 downloads that month, according to Luminate, the song maintains a strong showing in its second full month of release: 36.4 million streams and 9,000 downloads in January.
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It debuted at No. 44 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated Dec. 7, 2024, and lifted back to No. 49 on the Jan. 11 ranking.
In all, four songs from Wicked, which premiered in theaters on Nov. 22, 2024, appear on the January 2025 Top Movie Songs chart. Grande’s “Popular” is the next highest after “Defying Gravity,” ranking at No. 3, followed by the Erivo and Grande duet “What Is This Feeling?” (No. 4) and Jonathan Bailey’s “Dancing Through Life” (No. 10).
But it’s not all Wicked on the chart. No. 2 belongs to Dominic Fike’s “Come Here,” featured in the Steven Soderbergh-directed film Presence, debuted in theaters on Jan. 24. First released on Fike’s 2020 album What Could Possibly Go Wrong, it garnered 320,000 streams in January 2025.
Music from Back in Action, Babygirl, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Mufasa: The Lion King also dot the latest monthly ranking, found below.
Rank, Song, Artist, Movie
1. “Defying Gravity,” Cynthia Erivo feat. Ariana Grande, Wicked
2. “Come Here,” Dominic Fike, Presence
3. “Popular,” Ariana Grande, Wicked
4. “What Is This Feeling?,” Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande, Wicked
5. “Doo Wop (That Thing),” Lauryn Hill, Back in Action
6. “Father Figure,” George Michael, Babygirl
7. “Run It,” Jelly Roll, Sonic the Hedgehog 3
8. “I Always Wanted a Brother,” Braelyn Rankins, Theo Somolu, Aaron Pierre & Kelvin Harrison Jr., Mufasa: The Lion King
9. “CRUSH,” Yellow Claw, Natte Visstick & RHYME, Babygirl
10. “Dancing Through Life,” Jonathan Bailey, Wicked