Tommy Richman’s breakthrough hit “Million Dollar Baby” rises to No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 and Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” scores a third week atop the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart.
Plus, Billie Eilish debuts three songs in the top 10 of both the Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S., all from her new album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, and aespa notches its first Global Excl. U.S. top 10 with “Supernova.”
The 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.
Richman Cashes In on Global 200
Tommy Richman’s “Million Dollar Baby” pushes 2-1 on the Global 200 with 109 million streams (down 12%) and 8,000 sold (down 2%) worldwide May 17-23.
The Woodbridge, Va., native rules the Global 200 with his first overall Billboard chart entry as a lead artist. It’s just the third such No. 1, and the first R&B/hip-hop hit, among 61 total leaders since the list launched, following GAYLE’s “abcdefu” (four weeks at No. 1 in January-February 2022) and Jawsh 685’s “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat),” with Jason Derulo and BTS (one week, October 2020).
Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help,” featuring Morgan Wallen, drops to No. 2 on the Global 200 a week after it debuted at No. 1 and Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” keeps at No. 3, two weeks after it arrived at the summit.
Billie Eilish debuts three songs in the Global 200 top 10, all from her new LP, Hit Me Hard and Soft, which starts at No. 2 on the U.S.-based Billboard 200 albums chart. “Lunch” bows at No. 4, led by 95.3 million first-week worldwide streams, joined in the tier by “Chihiro” at No. 6 (77.1 million) and “Birds of a Feather” at No. 8 (64 million). Eilish ups her career count to seven Global 200 top 10s.
Rounding out the Global 200’s top five, Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” drops 4-5, after hitting No. 2.
Another Shot of ‘Espresso’
Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” adds a third week at No. 1 on the Global Excl. U.S. chart, with 63.9 million streams (up 7%) and 3,000 sold (up 20%) outside the U.S. May 17-23.
Billie Eilish’s “Lunch” debuts at No. 2 on Global Excl. U.S., with 63 million streams outside the U.S., followed by her “Chihiro” (No. 4; 50.1 million) and “Birds of a Feather” (No. 9; 39 million). As on the Global 200, Eilish now boasts seven Global Excl. U.S. top 10s.
Tommy Richman’s “Million Dollar Baby” descends to No. 3 after reaching No. 2 on Global Excl. U.S. and FloyyMenor and Cris Mj’s “Gata Only” holds at No. 5, after hitting No. 3.
Plus, aespa achieves its first Global Excl. U.S. top 10 as “Supernova” shoots 23-7, up 73% to 45.4 million streams outside the U.S. The South Korean quartet – comprising members Giselle, Karina, Ningning and Winter – tallied five prior top 40 hits on the chart: “Drama” (No. 21 peak, November 2023), “Spicy” (No. 40, June 2023), “Girls” (No. 25, July 2022), “Savage” (No. 24, October 2021) and “Next Level” (No. 34, June 2021).
The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts (dated June 1, 2024) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, May 29, a day later than usual due to the Memorial Day holiday in the U.S. May 27. 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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