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HUNTR/X’s “Golden,” from Netflix’s record-breaking animated movie KPop Demon Hunters, rules the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts for a 16th week each. In July, the song became the first No. 1 on each list for the act, whose music is voiced by EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI.
Meanwhile, Bizarrap and Daddy Yankee’s “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 0/66” debuts in the top 10 of both tallies and Rosalía and Yahritza y Su Esencia’s “La Perla” launches in the Global Excl. U.S. top 10.
The Billboard Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts 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.
“Golden” tops the Global 200 with 110 million streams (down 6% week-over-week) and 12,000 sold (down 13%) worldwide in the week ending Nov. 13.
The song boasts the third-longest command since the Global 200 began in September 2020. Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has ruled for 19 weeks since that December and Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” dominated for 18 weeks starting in September 2024. (“Christmas” dashes 43-18 up the latest Global 200.)
Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” holds at No. 2 on the Global 200, after two weeks at No. 1 in October; Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” is steady at No. 3, following 10 weeks on top beginning in May; Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need” rises from No. 5 back to its No. 4 best; and Swift’s “Opalite” slips 4-5, after hitting No. 2.
Bizarrap and Daddy Yankee’s “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 0/66” enters the Global 200 at No. 8 with 42.8 million streams and 2,000 sold worldwide Nov. 7-13 following its Nov. 5 release. Bizarrap earns his fourth top 10 on the chart, after his series’ “Vol. 52,” with Quevedo, reigned for four weeks beginning in July 2022; “Vol. 53,” with Shakira, rose to No. 2 in January 2023; and “Vol. 55,” with Peso Pluma, hit No. 2 in June 2023. Daddy Yankee earns his first top 10.
“Golden” leads Global Excl. U.S. with 84.8 million streams (down 5%) and 7,000 sold (down 6%) beyond the U.S.
As on the Global 200, “Golden” has the third-longest No. 1 run on Global Excl. U.S., trailing only ROSÉ and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” and “Die With a Smile,” which led for 19 and 17 weeks, respectively, in 2024 into this year.
“The Fate of Ophelia” repeats at No. 2 on Global Excl. U.S. after two weeks on top in October; “Ordinary” rebounds 5-3 after eight weeks at No. 1 starting in May; “Man I Need” pushes 7-4 for a new high; and Kenshi Yonezu’s “Iris Out” descends 3-5, after reaching No. 2.
“Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 0/66” begins on the Global 200 at No. 6 led by 39.4 million streams outside the U.S. Bizarrap adds his sixth top 10 on the chart, after “Vol. 52” (No. 1, six weeks, 2022); “Vol. 53” (No. 2, 2023); “Vol. 55” (No. 1, one week, 2023); “Vol. 57,” with Milo J (No. 10, 2023); and “Vol. 58,” with Young Miko (No. 5, 2024). Daddy Yankee notches his second top 10.
Plus, Rosalía and Yahritza y Su Esencia’s “La Perla” debuts at No. 9 on Global Excl. U.S. powered by 27.6 million streams outside the U.S. Rosalía posts her sixth top 10 and Yahritza y Su Esencia, its first. The song is from Rosalía’s new album, LUX, which starts as her first top 10 on the U.S.-based Billboard 200.
The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated Nov. 22, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, Nov. 18. 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.
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Trending on Billboard Sombr’s “Back To Friends” enters the top 10 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, while “Mutt” and Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need” keep on climbing up. Can “Ordinary” or “Golden” retake No. 1? Tetris Kelly: This is the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 for the week dated November 22. Sombr makes it […]
Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” tops the Billboard Hot 100 for a sixth week, encompassing its entire run on the chart so far. Of the superstar’s 13 career Hot 100 No. 1s, “The Fate of Ophelia” is her third to have led for at least six weeks. It joins “Anti-Hero” (eight weeks, beginning Nov. […]
Trending on Billboard Arcángel announces his new album, LA 8va Maravilla, and reveals a new collaboration with Grupo Firme. Arcángel: To the eighth wonder. That’s why this trip we took, visiting the seven wonders, was so special. And within this experience, it’s important to tell people who think that there are only seven wonders that […]
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Drake sought to reinvent his album rollout style with the three Iceman episodes released earlier this year. The 6 God opened up about his creative process and his intentions with the livestreams in a rare interview with Complex on Tuesday (Nov. 18).
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“I have been dying to act and have been dying for a challenge,” Drake said. “The game is extremely calm seas right now. Nobody is rocking any boat on the water and so once we discussed a livestream rollout, it just sounded like the perfect mix of risk and reward for me.”
The OVO boss continued: “I love the opportunity for a clean slate of thoughts and excitement and messaging when it comes to the music. What I hate is the redundancy of this formulaic approach that’s ingrained in our brains from early label days. Single, video, single, video, album cover post, etc.”
Drake kicked off the Iceman rollout with a livestream on July 4, which saw him preview his “What Did I Miss?” single that arrived on July 5.
Later in July, a second stream found Drizzy working in a factory before a woman danced in a drained pool to what we now know is “Which One” featuring Central Cee. He closed out the episode moving through a London airport while previewing an unreleased track.
“I think I am always capable of recognizing when things are shifting and not being weirdly affected by it, not being jealous, not being thirsty, just finding how I can shine light or co-exist or make it a part of our ecosystem,” he added. “With this, I just would study IRL streams versus the stagnant ‘bedroom cam’ streams, and I feel like IRL just had so much unpredictable energy and movement.”
Drake returned for episode three in September, which saw him cruising the streets of Italy and previewing plenty of tunes, including the Cash Cobain-assisted “Somebody Loves Me” remix as well as “Dog House” featuring Julia Wolf and YEAT.
Elsewhere in his Complex interview, Drizzy explained that he enjoyed the building anticipation and conspiracy theories surrounding the album within his fan base, compared to the traditional release of a single and accompanying music video.
“I watch murder docs a lot and as you get invested you start to try and solve things before you even know where it’s headed or what the answers are. It’s like this sleuth energy — ‘What did I learn? What did I miss?’ No pun intended,” he joked. “It’s crazy to see people make two-, three-hour videos on their thoughts and building conspiracies. It’s interactive content and that adds such a desirable element, more so than a music video with cars and tings. Not that those aren’t lovely sometimes.”
Iceman‘s release date remains a mystery. However, Drake posted a series of photos of himselfplaying tennis with Sexyy Red on Tuesday, which fueled speculation about a possible upcoming collaboration.
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Lainey Wilson is headed to Family Guy!
The Grammy winner will take part in the Hulu exclusive holiday special, Disney’s Hulu’s Family Guy’s Hallmark Channel’s Lifetime’s Familiar Holiday Movie, which is a satire of classic holiday movies.
The episode features Lois (Alex Borstein), a worker at Big Pie, who travels to a small town with the goal of hijacking Peter’s (Seth MacFarlane) secret, beloved pie recipe. Wilson will open the episode as a country singer performing an original song.
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The special will premiere Friday, Nov. 28, on Hulu, and on Hulu on Disney+. The cast also includes Seth Green, Mila Kunis and Arif Zahir.
“Like so many of the great guest appearances on Family Guy, Lainey’s is due to our casting director Christine Terry who thought she’d be perfect. If the part had called for, say, an ABBA tribute band, we might have been a little more helpful,” Family Guy showrunners Rich Appel and Alec Sulkin said in a statement.
Lainey Wilson is set to solo host the CMA Awards, which will air live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on ABC on Wednesday, Nov. 19. She is also nominated in six categories, including entertainer of the year, album of the year (Whirlwind), female vocalist of the year and single and song of the year (both for “4x4xU”). Wilson won the entertainer of the year honor in 2023, and cohosted last year’s CMA Awards alongside Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning. Her album Whirlwind includes the singles “Hang Tight Honey,” “4x4xU” and “Somewhere Over Laredo.”
Her role on Family Guy isn’t her first television role. Wilson previously had a recurring part on the hit series Yellowstone, portraying an aspiring country singer named Abby. She is also set to make her film debut next year, with a role in the upcoming movie Reminders of Him.
See the trailer for the holiday special episode of Family Guy below:
Nicki Minaj took the podium to speak out against the alleged persecution of Christians in Nigeria at a United Nations event organized by U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz on Tuesday (Nov. 18).
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Minaj has voiced her concern with the alleged religious persecution taking place in the West African nation on multiple occasions in recent months on X, which drew the attention of Ambassador Waltz, who invited the Young Money rapper to speak at the event.
“I would like to thank President Trump for prioritizing this issue and his leadership on the global stage in calling for urgent action to defend Christians in Nigeria and to combat extremism and to bring a stop to violence against those who simply want to express their natural right to freedom of religion or belief,” she began.
Minaj continued: “Music has taken me around the globe. I have seen how people no matter their language, culture or religion, come alive when they hear a song that touches their soul. Religious freedom means we all can sing our faith regardless of who we are, where we live and what we believe. But today, faith is under attack in way too many places.”
The Queens native explained that the religious persecution “demands urgent action” from the U.S. government, but she also made sure to clarify this isn’t about “taking sides or dividing people,” it’s about “uniting humanity.”
“In Nigeria, Christians are being targeted, driven from their homes and killed. Churches have been burned, families have been torn apart and entire communities live in fear constantly simply because of how they pray,” she explained. “Sadly, this problem is not only a growing problem in Nigeria, but so many countries across the world and it demands urgent action. I want to be clear, protecting Christians in Nigeria is not about taking sides or dividing people. It is about uniting humanity.”
Minaj concluded: “I want to make it clear once again, this isn’t about taking sides. This is about standing up in the face of injustice. It’s about what I’ve always stood for my entire career and I will continue to stand for that for the rest of my life.”
Her comments come on the heels of President Trump designating Nigeria as a future addition to the list of Countries of Particular Concern.
“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” Trump said in a video on Truth Social shared Nov. 5.
A Nigerian presidential spokesman previously told The Associated Press that the U.S. cannot “carry out any military operation” in Nigeria over the claims of religious persecution. Spokesman Daniel Bwala said that this is “Trump’s style of going forceful in order to force a sit-down and have a conversation.”
“There is no systematic, intentional attempt either by the Nigerian government or by any serious group to target a particular religion,” Information Minister Idris Muhammed told AP in October, and downplayed reports of Christian persecution.
Watch Nicki Minaj’s full speech below.
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Whether you’re a fan of pop, hip-hop, R&B, Latin, country, dance, metal, K-pop or just a demon hunter in your spare time, there’s something for everyone on this year’s Billboard 200 leaders.
Since the beginning of 2025, 22 different albums have led the Billboard 200. Two of them, SZA’s SOS (a deluxe edition of her 2022 album) and Kendrick Lamar’s GNX, were released in prior years. Seven have spent more than one week at the summit: the aforementioned albums, plus Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos, Playboi Carti’s Music, Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem, the Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack and Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl.
As of the latest tracking week, dated Nov. 22, Wallen and Swift are the leaders in the category with 12 weeks and six weeks at No. 1, respectively. Benito’s latest release sits with four weeks, Playboy Carti and SZA each have three, while Lamar and the Kpop Demon Hunters have two. And of course, this was the year that Showgirl shattered the single-week record for equivalent albums sold with 4.002 million, besting the 2015 numbers put up by Adele’s 25 (3.482 million).
In addition, six of the albums boast a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Lady Gaga’s Mayhem has her duet with Bruno Mars, “Die With a Smile” (five weeks on top); GNX features “Luther” with SZA (13 weeks); I’m the Problem boasts “What I Want” featuring Tate McRae (one week); Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend with “Manchild” (one week); Demon Hunters with “Golden” (eight weeks); and Showgirl with “The Fate of Ophelia” (six weeks).
Interestingly, two artists who climbed the Billboard 200 chart also have No. 1 Hot 100 hits–but not on their own release. SZA teamed up with Lamar on “Luther” and Tate McRae (So Close to What earned the singer-dancer her first Billboard 200 leader in March) joined Wallen on “What I Want.” Plus, Travis Scott – whose Jackboys 2 collaboration debuted at No. 1 on the 200 in July – led the Hot 100 with his single “4X4” back in February. K-dot also spent one week at No. 1 on the Hot 100 this year with his non-album track, the Grammy-winning “Not Like Us.”
See a list of all the No. 1 albums in the order that they first topped the Billboard 200 below and vote for your favorite now. The winner of this fan-voted poll will be revealed on Dec. 9.
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A perennial holiday tune, a massive track from a former TikToker, a country-pop pairing, a movie soundtrack favorite and a harsh rebuke to immature men are among the 10 songs from 15 artists that topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 2025 so far. (Compare that to 18 different No. 1s in 2024 and 19 in 2023.)
Half of these hits charted for multiple weeks. Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s collab “Luther” – from the rapper’s 2024 full-length GNX – spent the longest time at the top with 13 weeks. Lamar’s “Not Like Us” also vaulted back into that spot following his Super Bowl halftime show. Alex Warren’s viral “Ordinary,” off of his 2025 debut LP You’ll Be Alright, Kid, earned 10 weeks as a Hot 100 leader, while KPop Demon Hunter’s “Golden” – performed by EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, and REI AMI as the fictional HUNTR/X – led for eight. Taylor Swift’s 12th lead single “The Fate of Ophelia” continues its life at No. 1 with six weeks and counting. Finally, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ duet “Die With a Smile” – which premiered in August of 2024 – reached No. 1 in 2025 and stayed there for five non-consecutive weeks.
Nine of the artists added to their tallies of songs that went No. 1. “Ophelia” is Swift’s 13th; “Die With a Smile” is Mars’ ninth and Gaga’s sixth; “Luther” is Lamar’s sixth and SZA’s third; “4X4” is Travis Scott’s fifth; “What I Want” is Morgan Wallen’s fourth; and “Manchild” is Sabrina Carpenter’s second. Warren, Tate McRae – Wallen’s partner on “What I Want” – and the Demon Hunters team each earned their first. (Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” which became her 19th Hot 100 topper in 2019, has spent a total of 18 weeks at No. 1 over the years so far.)
Which of these songs is your favorite? See them in order of their ascension in 2025 below and vote! The winner of this fan-voted poll will be revealed on Dec. 9.
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In his first sitdown interview since being released from prison, Max B talked with Billboard‘s hip-hop editor Angel Diaz about a wide range of topics that include his first day out and reuniting with French Montana, how he’s readjusting to life outside and reviving his career, his friendships with the younger generation of rappers such as the late Mac Miller, Wiz Khalifa and Cash Cobain, his love for the Knicks and much more.
Angel Diaz: This is In Conversation with Max B, the boss of Biggaveli. Welcome back home, man.
Max B: Thank you, beloved. The one and only.
So let’s get started. You came home Nov. 9, right? French’s birthday, and you went straight to the Jets game. Can you kind of talk about why you were at the you were, like, on the field and everything.
Well, that was kind of like one of the signs where I knew I was, it was, I was like, the come out was gonna be impactful. So it just so happens I’m a Jet fan, anyway.
OK, all right.
So, you know, we needed to win. You know, it all ran good company that day. We wanted to win. And I wanted to, you know, finally meet Shedeur Sanders. So it was love, one of the fun days I’ll remember for a long time, very long time.
So how crazy was it, though, when you was on the field and you saw Method Man taking pictures?
I thought he found some type of loopholes. I said, “You don’t found some loopholes to the game.” And I’m like, “OK, do they let the guys take, you know, maybe you need some type of little photo, the little, you know?”
Yeah, like, he’s, like–
And they gonna give you a job, a volunteer, doing some photo. You be caught sight sidelined the game. You get to see all the players. You get, like, that’s some official s–t. So it was good shout-out to Meth, yo, because I been a Method fan forever. So to see him like that on that in that circumstance, it was just like, I knew the day was just beginning. I’m like, it’s gonna get more exciting.
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