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Bad Bunny’s “Monaco” blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. songs charts (dated Oct. 28). The Puerto Rican-born superstar earns his fourth leader on the Global 200 and his third on Global Excl. U.S. The song is from his new LP, Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana, which debuts as his third No. 1 on the U.S.-based Billboard 200 albums chart.
Bad Bunny debuts two other songs from the set in both the Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. top 10: “Perro Negro,” with Feid, and “Fina,” with Young Miko.

The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard 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.

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.

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‘Monaco’ No. 1 Worldwide

“Monaco” begins atop the Billboard Global 200 with 82.3 million streams and 2,000 sold worldwide in its first week (Oct. 13-19). Bad Bunny notches his fourth No. 1, and second No. 1 debut, on the chart, following “Where She Goes,” which led for a week upon its start in June. He previously reigned with “Un x100to,” with Grupo Frontera, for two weeks in May and “Dakiti,” with Jhay Cortez (now Jhayco), for three weeks in November-December 2020.

Bad Bunny breaks out of a tie with Drake and Olivia Rodrigo for the most Global 200 No. 1s among soloists; overall, only BTS, with seven, has more.

Bad Bunny debuts two other songs from his new set in the Global 200’s top 10: “Perro Negro,” with Feid, and “Fina,” with Young Miko. They open at Nos. 4 and 6 with 56.8 million streams and 51.7 million streams worldwide, respectively. Bad Bunny ups his count to 19 top 10s, passing Taylor Swift (17) for the second-most, after Drake’s 35. Feid, from Colombia, and Young Miko, from Puerto Rico, each reach the top 10 for the first time.

Swift’s “Cruel Summer” surges 14-2 on the Global 200, surpassing its prior No. 3 best, with 52.4 million streams (up 22%) and 47,000 sold (up 982%) worldwide, following the Oct. 18 release of a live version, from her The Eras Tour, and an LP Giobbi remix.

Elsewhere in the Global 200’s top five, Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red” holds at No. 3, following four weeks at No. 1 beginning in September, and Tate McRae’s “Greedy” rises 6-5, after reaching No. 4.

Bad Bunny Also No. 1 on Global Excl. U.S.

Bad Bunny’s “Monaco” likewise launches atop Billboard Global Excl. U.S. with 57 million streams and 1,000 sold outside the U.S. Oct. 13-19. He notches his third No. 1, and second No. 1 debut, on the chart, after “Un x100to,” with Grupo Frontera, rose to the top for three weeks in May and “Dakiti,” with Jhay Cortez, began at No. 1 and ruled for five weeks in November-December 2020.

Bad Bunny solely claims the most Global Excl. U.S. No. 1s among soloists and ties BLACKPINK for the second-most among all acts; BTS leads all artists with seven No. 1s.

Bad Bunny debuts two other tracks in the Global Excl. U.S. top 10: “Perro Negro,” with Feid (No. 7), and “Fina,” with Young Miko (No. 10). Bad Bunny now boasts a record 18 top 10s (ahead of runner-up Swift’s 11). Feid adds his second top 10 and Young Miko scores her first.

Jung Kook’s “Seven,” featuring Latto, rebounds 3-2 on Global Excl. U.S., following nine weeks at No. 1 beginning in July; Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red” rises 4-3, after two weeks on top starting in September; and Iñigo Quintero’s first entry, “Si No Estás,” pushes 6-4, while concurrently becoming the Spanish singer-songwriter’s first top 10 on the Global 200 (17-10; 51.4 million global streams, up 3%).

Plus, Jung Kook and Jack Harlow’s “3D” falls 2-5 on Global Excl. U.S., two weeks after it debuted at No. 1.

The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Oct. 28, 2023) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 24). 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.

Taylor Swift joins the elite club of artists with 10 or more No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, as “Cruel Summer” ascends to the summit, from No. 9, becoming her 10th leader. The song, which previously peaked at No. 3, was originally released on Swift’s 2019 Republic Records album Lover before being promoted as a single and gaining new prominence as the superstar has performed it on her The Eras Tour this year.
Helping spark the song’s Hot 100 coronation, new mixes were released during the latest tracking week, which also began with the Oct. 13 wide release of the concert film Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.

Elsewhere, Drake’s “IDGAF,” featuring Yeat, at No. 4 on the Hot 100 a week after it debuted at No. 2, becomes the most streamed-song in the U.S., rising to the top of the Streaming Songs chart, where it’s Drake’s record-extending 20th leader.

Plus, Bad Bunny adds his 12th Hot 100 top 10 with the No. 5 debut of “Monaco.” The song is from his new LP, Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana, which launches as his third leader on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Oct. 28, 2023) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 24). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

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Here’s a deeper dive as “Cruel Summer” becomes the 1,158th single to top the Hot 100 over the chart’s 65-year history.

Airplay, streams & sales: “Cruel Summer” drew 77.8 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 2%) and 18.6 million streams (up 35%) and sold 41,000 downloads (up 1,482%) in the Oct. 13-19 tracking week, according to Luminate, as it wins the Hot 100’s top Streaming and Sales Gainer awards.

The single bounds to No. 1, from No. 13, on the Digital Song Sales chart, becoming Swift’s record-extending 27th leader; holds at No. 2 on Radio Songs, following a week on top three weeks earlier, having become her eighth No. 1; and returns to its No. 5 high, from No. 32, on Streaming Songs – where, as on the Hot 100, multiple songs vault a week after Drake charted all 23 tracks from his album For All the Dogs, which began atop the Billboard 200 a week earlier.

Helping spur the latest surges for “Cruel Summer,” new mixes arrived Oct. 18: a live version, recorded in Los Angeles during The Eras Tour, and an LP Giobbi remix. They followed the Oct. 13 wide premiere of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, which has already become the highest-grossing music concert film ever.

What a truly mind blowing thing you’ve turned The Eras Tour Concert Film into. I’ve been watching videos of you guys in the theaters dancing and prancing and recreating choreography, creating inside jokes, casting spells, getting engaged, and just generally creating the exact… pic.twitter.com/shR5NC0led— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) October 19, 2023

“Cruel Summer” was released on Swift’s 2019 album Lover and since June has been promoted as a proper single. It gained momentum as Swift has performed it on The Eras Tour (which began in March), her first in which she’s been able to spotlight songs from Lover, which was released shortly before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Taylor’s 10th: Swift joins 10 other acts since the Hot 100 began on Aug. 4, 1958, with 10 or more No. 1s each.

Most Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s:

20, The Beatles

19, Mariah Carey

14, Rihanna

13, Drake

13, Michael Jackson

12, Madonna

12, The Supremes

11, Whitney Houston

10, Janet Jackson

10, Taylor Swift

10, Stevie Wonder

Here’s a recap of Swift’s 10 Hot 100 No. 1s:

“Cruel Summer,” one week at No. 1 to-date, Oct. 28, 2023

“Anti-Hero,” eight weeks, beginning Nov. 5, 2022

“All Too Well (Taylor’s Version),” one week, Nov. 27, 2021

“Willow,” one week, Dec. 26, 2020

“Cardigan,” one week, Aug. 8, 2020

“Look What You Made Me Do,” three weeks, beginning Sept. 16, 2017

“Bad Blood,” feat. Kendrick Lamar, one week, June 6, 2015

“Blank Space,” seven weeks, beginning Nov. 29, 2014

“Shake It Off,” four weeks, beginning Sept. 6, 2014

“We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” three weeks, beginning Sept. 1, 2012

Over four summers later …: “Cruel Summer” debuted, at No. 29, on the Hot 100 dated Sept. 7, 2019, as parent album Lover launched atop the Billboard 200. The song fell to No. 71 on the Hot 100 the following week before re-entering, at No. 49, this June; in July, it hit the top 10 and stands as one of Swift’s 42 career top 10s, the most among women.

The song completes the fifth-longest trip to No. 1 on the Hot 100 in terms of time from a debut to scaling the summit. Of those five enduring songs, two have reigned this year (both on Republic), as “Cruel Summer” follows The Weeknd’s likewise revived “Die for You,” which reigned for a week in March following the release of its remix with Ariana Grande.

Most Time to No. 1 on Hot 100, from Chart Debut:

19 years, 11 months, 2 weeks, “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey (2000-19; originally released in 1994, the carol ultimately first led 25 years after its release)

6 years, 2 months, 3 weeks, “Die for You,” The Weeknd & Ariana Grande (2016-23)

5 years, 8 months, 2 weeks, “When I’m With You,” Sheriff (1983-89)

4 years, 8 months, 2 weeks, “Red Red Wine,” UB40 (1984-88; the pop/reggae classic and Sheriff’s love song above were renewed, in part, by adventurous radio exec Guy Zapoleon)

4 years, 1 month, 3 weeks, “Cruel Summer,” Taylor Swift (2019-23)

First No. 1 from Lover: Over four years after Lover’s release, “Cruel Summer” becomes the set’s first Hot 100 No. 1. The first two singles each hit No. 2: “Me!,” featuring Brendon Urie, and “You Need To Calm Down.” The LP has yielded four top 10s, with the title track having hit No. 10. The first three top 10s peaked in May, June and September 2019, respectively.

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A not-‘Cruel’ twist for ‘Summer’: Chart-watcher Jesper Tan, of Subang Jaya, Malaysia, wrote in last week, noting: “If ‘Cruel Summer’ tops the Hot 100, it would be the first No. 1 with ‘cruel’ in its title. It would also become only the third song with ‘summer’ in its title, and the first in over 57 years.” Here are the three, with only one having led during summertime:

“Cruel Summer,” Taylor Swift, one week at No. 1 to-date, Oct. 28, 2023

“Summer in the City,” The Lovin’ Spoonful, three weeks, beginning Aug. 13, 1966

“The Theme From A Summer Place,” Percy Faith and His Orchestra, nine weeks, beginning Feb. 22, 1960

Notably, Elvis Presley’s classic “Don’t Be Cruel” topped multiple charts in 1956, prior to the Hot 100’s inception. Until this week, Swift’s new leader had tied James Darren’s “Goodbye Cruel World,” a No. 3 hit in 1961, for the top-charting Hot 100 hit with “cruel” in its title. Next up: Cheap Trick’s cover of Presley’s “Don’t Be Cruel” (No. 4, 1988). Meanwhile, Bananarama’s own “Cruel Summer” reached No. 9 in 1984.

Doja Cat’s “Paint the Town Red” rebounds 4-2 on the Hot 100, following three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 beginning in September. It adds a seventh and eighth week, respectively, atop the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts, which use the same multi-metric methodology as the Hot 100.

SZA’s “Snooze” jumps 7-3 on the Hot 100, after reaching No. 2. It rules Radio Songs for a third week (80 million in audience, up 3%) and notches a 12th week at No. 1 on the multi-metric Hot R&B Songs chart.

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Drake’s “IDGAF,” featuring Yeat, falls to No. 4 on the Hot 100, a week after it debuted at No. 2. It ascends 2-1 on Streaming Songs, despite a 36% decline to 26 million streams, becoming Drake’s record-padding 20th leader on the list, and Yeat’s first; Drake collected his 19th Streaming Songs No. 1, “First Person Shooter,” featuring J. Cole, a week earlier.

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Bad Bunny’s “Monaco” debuts at No. 5 on the Hot 100, driven by 25.7 million first-week streams.

The song is the star’s 12th Hot 100 top 10. It’s from his new album, Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana, which bounds in as his third No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The track also begins as his 14th No. 1 on the multi-metric Hot Latin Songs chart.

Zach Bryan’s “I Remember Everything,” featuring Kacey Musgraves, advances 14-6 on the Hot 100, after it led for a week upon its debut in September. It tops the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Rock Songs charts for an eighth week each and Hot Country Songs for a fourth frame.

Luke Combs’ “Fast Car” revs 13-7 on the Hot 100, following eight weeks at its No. 2 high; Drake’s “First Person Shooter,” featuring J. Cole, falls to No. 8 a week after it entered as Drake’s 13th No. 1 and J. Cole’s first; and Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” rebounds 19-9, following 16 weeks at No. 1 starting in March, the most ever for a non-collaboration.

Rounding out the Hot 100’s top 10, Wallen’s “Thinkin’ Bout Me” returns to the tier, soaring 25-10. The track, like “Last Night” from his album One Thing at a Time, debuted at its No. 9 high in March concurrent with the LP’s debut atop the Billboard 200. As previously reported, “Thinkin’ Bout Me” becomes Wallen’s 10th No. 1 on the Oct. 28-dated Country Airplay chart; it drew 36.2 million in all-format radio audience, up 7%, in the tracking week.

Again, for all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram and all charts (dated Oct. 28), including the Hot 100 in its entirety, will refresh on Billboard.com tomorrow (Oct. 24).

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.