Justin Bieber & Nicki Minaj’s ‘Beauty and a Beat’ Tops Both Billboard Global Charts
Plus, Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” moonwalks to the top 10.
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The impact of Justin Bieber’s buzzy Coachella performances continues to be felt, as his “Beauty and a Beat,” featuring Nicki Minaj, reigns as the biggest song in the world, rising a spot to No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 and spending a second week atop the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart.
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Another longtime favorite, Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean,” blasts to the top 10 of both tallies sparked by the premiere of the hit box office biopic Michael.
“Beauty and a Beat” crowns the Global 200 despite drops of 13% to 69.6 million streams and 35% to 13,000 sold April 24-30, according to Luminate. Bieber played the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., on both April 11 and April 18. The song, which hit No. 6 on the U.S.-based Billboard Hot 100 in 2012, was part of his April 11 performance, a hybrid spotlight that blended proper live songs with clips of his early hits played directly from YouTube.
Bieber earns his third No. 1 since the Global 200 began in September 2020, after “Stay,” with The Kid LAROI, ruled for 11 weeks beginning in August 2021 and “Peaches,” featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon, led for two weeks that April. Minaj tops the chart for the first time.
Also notably, “Beauty and a Beat” is the second non-holiday song to top the Global 200 more than a decade after its release, after Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” 1985, led for three weeks in 2022, spurred by its sync in Netflix’s Stranger Things. (Two holiday classics have hit No. 1: Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” from 1994, and Wham!’s “Last Christmas,” from 1984.)
Elsewhere in the Global 200’s top five, BTS’ “Swim” rises 3-2 after spending its first four weeks on the chart at No. 1 in April; Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drop Dead” falls to No. 3 a week after it debuted in the top spot; Tame Impala and JENNIE’s “Dracula” keeps at No. 4 after reaching No. 2; and Bieber’s “Daisies” holds at No. 5 after hitting No. 3.
Following the smash start for Michael, which premiered April 24, Jackson’s “Billie Jean” surges 65-8 on the Global 200 with 36.7 million streams (up 102%) and 3,000 sold (up 203%) worldwide. The seven-week Hot 100 No. 1 in 1983, from his landmark Thriller album, becomes his first Global 200 top 10.
“Beauty and a Beat” tops Global Excl. U.S. led by 57.9 million streams (down 11%) outside the U.S.
“Swim” treads water at No. 2 on Global Excl. U.S. after leading in its first four weeks on the chart; “Dracula” ascends 4-3 after hitting No. 2; “Drop Dead” backtracks 3-4 in its second week; and Dominic Fike’s “Babydoll” holds at No. 5 after reaching No. 3.
“Billie Jean” concurrently vaults 64-6 on Global Excl. U.S., up 97% to 27.6 million streams outside the U.S. It’s likewise the late King of Pop’s first top 10 on the chart.
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.
The latest charts, dated May 9, 2026, will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, May 5. For both tallies, 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.
