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Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” ascends a spot to No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200. The song marks the singer-songwriter’s first leader on the chart.
Meanwhile, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” scores a 16th week atop the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. survey. The ballad first hit No. 1 on the list last September.
Elsewhere, WizTheMC earns his first top 10 on both tallies with “Show Me Love.”
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The Billboard 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.
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.
“Ordinary” crowns the Global 200 with 82.5 million streams and 6,000 sold worldwide April 25-May 1. The song by the Carlsbad, Calif., native became a viral hit, boosted by his performance of it in March on Netflix’s Love Is Blind. It has since topped 11 charts in Billboard’s Hits of the World menu, spent seven weeks and counting atop the Official UK Singles chart and hit No. 2, as of this week, on the U.S.-based Billboard Hot 100.
“Die With a Smile” drops to No. 2 after 18 weeks atop the Global 200 beginning last September (second only to the 19 weeks at No. 1 for Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” since the chart began). The rest of the ranking’s top five holds in place: ROSÉ and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” at No. 3, after 12 weeks at No. 1 starting in November; Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” at No. 4, following three weeks at No. 1 last August; and Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” at No. 5, after it logged seven weeks on top in February-April 2024.
WizTheMC’s “Show Me Love” soars 19-10 on the Global 200 with 37 million streams (up 22%) and 1,000 sold (up 13%) worldwide. The track by the South African-German multihyphenate, based in Toronto, became his first Billboard chart entry in March. It concurrently bounds 11-6 on Global Excl. U.S.
“Die With a Smile” collects a 16th week at No. 1 on Global Excl. U.S., with 66.9 million streams (down 1%) and 3,000 sold (down 2%) outside the U.S. The song boasts the second-longest rule in the chart’s archives:
19 weeks at No. 1, “APT.,” ROSÉ & Bruno Mars (2024-25)
16 weeks, “Die With a Smile,” Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars (2024-25)
14 weeks, “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey (2021-25)
13 weeks, “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus (2023)
13 weeks, “As It Was,” Harry Styles (2022)
The rest of the Global Excl. U.S. is also steady week-over-week: “APT.” at No. 2; “Ordinary” at its No. 3 best; JENNIE’s “like JENNIE” at No. 4, after hitting No. 3; and “Birds of a Feather” at No. 5, following three weeks at No. 1 last August.
The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated May 10, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, May 6. 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.
ROSÉ split the apple down symmetrical lines at Charli xcx‘s final Brat Tour show in Brooklyn, N.Y., Sunday night (May 4), with the BLACKPINK star performing the viral “Apple” choreography on the Jumbotron amongst thousands of fans at Barclays Center. As is tradition on the “Von Dutch” singer’s trek, venue cameras singled out one guest […]
“Interviewing Grace Wales Bonner at the Guggenheim” sounds like a bar you would hear from Westside Gunn, or some other rapper with a high level of fashion sense and sophistication. But that’s what I did over the weekend when I had the pleasure of being invited to the British designer’s latest iteration of her “Togetherness” series where she brings people together from different walks of life that share similar interests when it comes to style, music, and art.
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There was an exhibit by multi-disciplined artist Rashid Johnson entitled A Poem for Deep Thinkers serving as the event’s backdrop, as sounds from electro-R&B genius KeiyaA and pop fusion maven Amaarae bounced off Johnson’s pieces — which included things like a framed throwback dashiki jersey (signed by “Civil Rights All-Star” Angela Davis), and sculptures made out of shea butter.
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Like most of the acts performing, Grace Wales Bonner is multi-faceted, incorporating different reference points into the clothes and accessories she designs for her Wales Bonner fashion house thanks to an almost maniacal obsession with research that then bleeds out into what she presents to the world. When I was walking to the event from the 86th St. stop, I noticed Nigerian rock band Etran de L’Aïr smoking cigarettes outside as they relaxed before they tore the house down later that night — but the first thing I noticed was that they were wearing brown traditional thobes while wearing yellow Adidas x Wales Bonner Adios Neftenga on their feet.
That’s Wales Bonner’s approach right there in front of me. The label mixes high fashion with traditional and street fashion. Soccer kits, durags and sneakers aren’t strange things to see on the label’s runway models. It’s that juxtaposition that makes the brand so interesting.
Etran de L’Aïr at Grace Wales Bonner Presents: Togetherness at Guggenheim New York on May 3, 2025.
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This year’s “Togetherness” event was no different and the melting pot that is New York City was the perfect setting. Hip-hop serves as one of Bonner’s many influences and reference points. “The street photography in New York is a way of understanding sound like looking at what people are wearing around their sound systems,” she said during our quick chat, as she referenced the photography of Jamel Shabazz during the early days of hip-hop. “Music and sounds are part of those references.”
When it came to how she approached curating the wide array of acts, she credited the city’s diversity as inspiration. “I feel like that’s what feels quite special about New York,” she began. “That’s what I always love. You can be with people of lots of different ages together, kind of like multi-generational, while also supporting each other. I think I’ve also been thinking about nomadic sound culture and people moving around and taking different influences through that movement. So, that’s been an influence in terms of programming — movement throughout the space and unexpected moments of discovery.”
One of the acts that incapsulated the event’s thesis statement was model, skateboarder and rapper Sage Elsesser, who goes by the artist name Navy Blue. Dipped in Wales Bonner from head-to-toe, he performed songs in the museum’s Lewis Theater and spoke to me about the similarities between his form of storytelling with Grace’s. “Music is the way that I express myself the best,” he told me in a quiet corner tucked away outside of the theater. “It’s the place where I get to express all of my interests and life experiences, like how I was raised, the food, it’s all of it, you know? It’s so multilayered. I think any artform is the crux of where all of your interests meet. So, I get why Grace is so inspired by music, and why she wants to have music be a part of her storytelling.”
Grace says that they first met through the fashion scene in which they both occupy. “There’s different ways that he can show up in the world of what I do,” she said of Elsesser. “I’m a fan of his music, so artists working with artists feels like quite a natural evolution. I’m always kind of like working and collaborating with different artists and researching a lot of different music for my shows, and have relationships with people that have grown and become organic.”
Another one of those artists that Bonner is referring to is Amaarae, whose style of music is hard to put in a box. She and Grace have been trying to connect on something this impactful for a minute and finally got the opportunity to do so. The two of them approach their art in a similarly unpredictable way.
“I think that a great artist is a great artist,” Amaarae told me backstage. “Whether you make music, films, clothing, draw, sculpt, or paint, I think that you go through life, and everything that you do, everything that you go through is a result of your influences and the things that inspire you.”
She added that one can only be inspired and influenced if they live a rich life culturally and educationally. “I absolutely feel the connection to Grace,” she said. “Just the way that we approach art, not just with music and fashion.”
“Togetherness” at the Guggenheim was a special event that bridged the gap not only culturally, but generationally. “I feel like there’s a strong sense of community in New York, which I really love,” Grace said “I also feel like there’s a kind of elevation and kind of sophistication about sounds I hear coming from New York, which I also see in my peers and their music.”
As New York Knicks captain Jalen Brunson would say, the vibes were immaculate on Saturday night (May 3) and I can’t forget to mention the fits which were of course very much splashy, very much flee, very much “I got that s–t on.”
After receiving a cease-and-desist from the owner of Las Vegas’ Sphere, Beyoncé has replaced the venue with another Nevada landmark in her Cowboy Carter Tour visuals.
Days after Billboard confirmed that Sphere Entertainment Co. CEO James Dolan’s attorneys had sent a letter to the superstar’s Parkwood Entertainment demanding that Bey remove a reference to the Sphere in a video that plays during one of her show’s interludes, fans at the tour’s third night in Los Angeles Sunday (May 4) were the first to see that she had done just that. In lieu of a ginormous Bey bending down to pick up the iconic spherical concert space — as was depicted in the original visual dubbed “Attack of the 400 Foot Cowboy” — she now reaches for Allegiant Stadium, seemingly edited overtop of where the Sphere was initially.
The following morning, Parkwood posted the updated footage on Instagram, writing, “What happens in Vegas starts with a BANG.”
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“Bey really said ‘you want petty? here’s petty,’” one fan commented on the post.
Another person wrote with a cry-laugh emoji, “Oh the shade.”
Sunday’s show came two nights after the New York Post first reported that Dolan’s company had sent Bey’s team the cease-and-desist, alleging that “the prominent appearance and manipulation of SEG’s Sphere™ venue in the video [had been] unauthorized.” In addition to accusing the 35-time Grammy winner of showcasing the Sphere without permission, the letter also reportedly criticized the visual for supposedly misleading fans by creating “significant speculation that Beyoncé will end her tour with a Sphere residency,” despite the fact that the Cowboy Carter trek is actually scheduled to end with two shows at Allegiant in July.
Billboard previously reached out to reps for Beyoncé and tour promoter Live Nation, but did not hear back.
Prior to the change, the Sphere had been just one of several global landmarks included in the visual. Featuring Bey modeling several glamorous looks and towering over various cities worldwide, the “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer also interacted with the Statue of Liberty in New York City, the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., in the interlude.
Following two more nights at SoFi Stadium in L.A. this week, Bey is set to bring the tour supporting Billboard 200-topping album Cowboy Carter to Chicago and East Rutherford, N.J., before heading overseas for performances in London and Paris. In late June, she’ll circle back to the states for shows in Texas, Maryland and Georgia before closing out with her Nevada performances.
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She came — and she delivered one of the greatest shows at Rio de Janiero’s Copacabana Beach has ever seen on Saturday (May 3). At 10:10 p.m., with a 25-minute delay, Lady Gaga took the stage at Todo Mundo No Rio in Brazil and gave a performance lasting more than two hours — a display of excellence that moved the audience of 2 million-plus people and the artist herself. According to Riotur, the number was half a million more than expected. With this attendance, she became the female artist with the highest concert attendance, surpassing Madonna’s previous record of 1.6 million fans at Copacabana Beach in 2024.
The forecast was also right for the evening, and there wasn’t a trace of rain before or after Lady Gaga’s show. During the performance, the sky was clear with few clouds, and the ocean breeze kept the temperature pleasantly cool. While rain ponchos stayed tucked away, the real stars of the show were hand fans — used more as percussion instruments than for cooling off. Waved to the rhythm of the music to applaud the singer and even to complain about the delay, the sound of the fans (one of the top-selling accessories during Gaga’s visit to Brazil) became a defining feature of her Copacabana show.
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With fireworks, record-breaking numbers and tributes to Brazil, Lady Gaga made every minute of the 13-year wait since her last performance in the country worth it.
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Tributes to Brazil were plentiful throughout the show. The first came with the outfit revealed at the end of “Abracadabra,” during which Mother Monster appeared in green attire with blue and yellow stripes. During “How Bad Do U Want Me,” her dancers took the stage wearing CBF jerseys.
Gaga directed several messages to the Brazilian crowd. Before singing “Poker Face,” she addressed the audience: “Brazil! I missed you so much. Are you ready for tonight?”
But her most emotional moment came before performing the classic “Alejandro.” Standing on one of the stage structures, Lady Gaga unfurled a Brazilian flag and invited young interpreter Nicholas to help her deliver a heartfelt message. In a speech that lasted nearly five minutes, an emotional Gaga moved the crowd. “Tonight, we’re making history. But no one makes history alone,” she said. “Without you, the incredible people of Brazil, I wouldn’t be living this moment. Thank you for making history with me. Brazilians are the reason I can shine. You’re as vibrant and beautiful as the sun and moon rising over the ocean, right here on Copacabana Beach.”
From the Fans’ Perspective
None of the fans interviewed were disappointed with the show. During and after the performance, the crowd’s joy was undeniable — though some organizational issues were pointed out by the Little Monsters.
Carol, 28, Isabela, 25, and Julia, 29, traveled from Sorocaba to see Lady Gaga. They felt the discomfort of being in the middle of the crowd. “We were near the platform and almost got trampled. It was poorly organized,” Carol said. About the setlist, she added, “The show was amazing. I wish there had been more hits, but I get that it’s the album tour. Either way, it was an incredible performance.”
Gabriel, 23, came from Espírito Santo. Despite some initial hiccups, the fan had an unforgettable night. “It was crazy. I lost my friend, and there was chaos at first,” he shared. “But once I found a calmer spot, I sang, I cried — it was so special. The moment that hit me hardest was ‘Born This Way,’ a song that represents me. It was totally worth it.”
For public servant Camila, 35, and administrator Edvaldo, 36, the show was a great experience shared between longtime friends. “I thought it was better than her Coachella set. Loved her using Brazil’s colors,” Camila said.
“The fireworks were the perfect finale. We found a comfortable spot, not too far from the stage, and had a blast,” Edvaldo added.
A Letdown for Street Vendors
Many street vendors felt that Lady Gaga’s show didn’t bring significant sales, for various reasons.
Grill vendor Rafael Mourão, 37, managed decent sales, but only reached Avenida Atlântica around 7 p.m. “Sales were much lower than Madonna’s show,” he said. “I had trouble getting into the area because of police blockades. The city throws a party but makes it hard for the less fortunate to work.”
Thiago, a drinks seller, believed fans bringing their own supplies hurt sales. “It wasn’t a total loss, but sales were just OK,” he shared. “People are being cheap — bringing beer from home instead of supporting local workers.”
Luciene, 23, also struggled. “I didn’t sell well, and it seems most didn’t either. I got here at 9 a.m. and am going home with most of my stock,” said the vendor. “On New Year’s, I did great — today was really slow.”
Will Lady Gaga Return to Brazil Soon?
If it’s up to the Mother Monster, she won’t stay away for so long again. Beyond her many declarations of love for Brazil, she expressed her desire to return soon: “I want to come back soon, soon — I don’t want to wait so long next time.”
She also shared how at home she feels in the South American country. “In Brazil, I feel like part of a community, and that’s so pure. I feel how much music means to you — and it means everything to me too.”
Let’s wait for the Mother Monster’s next steps — and hope she doesn’t take another 13 years to return to Brazil!
This article was written by Lucas Vieria for Billboard Brasil.
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Close to three years on from the release of BLACKPINK‘s latest album, LISA has confirmed that new music from the group is in the works.
LISA shared the news with Variety on Saturday (May 3) while promoting the release of her new Bose earbuds collaboration. “Actually, we were in the studio a few days ago,” she explained. “We’re all so super excited to get back together and go on tour. We really miss the blinks. We can’t wait to see them.”
New material from BLACKPINK would be the first released by the South Korean quartet since 2023 single “The Girls,” which in turn followed on from their second album, 2022’s Born Pink. The record became the group’s first to top the Billboard 200, and was also accompanied by a global tour which became the highest-grossing for a female group.
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In the time since, all members of BLACKPINK have embarked on solo careers and released albums in recent months, beginning with Rosé, whose Rosie album peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. While Jisoo released her Amortage EP in February, LISA’s Alter Ago and Jennie‘s Ruby were released in consecutive weeks across February and March, with both peaking at No. 7 on the Billboard 200.
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Most recently, LISA also appeared as a featured artist on Maroon 5’s new single, “Priceless.” The single marks Maroon 5’s first collaboration with a K-pop artist and features a guitar-driven sound that nods to the band’s early 2000s roots, complemented by LISA’s confident rap verse. The accompanying music video, shot on 35mm film and directed by Aerin Moreno, takes visual inspiration from the movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
BLACKPINK last performed live in September 2023, but are currently readying their live return, which launches in South Korea in July before visiting North America, Europe, and the U.K. in the following weeks, with three dates in Japan scheduled for January 2026.
When asked by Variety about the potential release date for new BLACKPINK music, LISA neither confirmed nor denied it would arrive in time to coincide with their live return. “You have to be patient about it,” she urged. “It’s coming soon, I promise. It’s about time.”
