Sabrina Carpenter's 'Espresso' reigns as Bulletin boardThe #1 global song of the summer for 2024.
The fight for Bulletin boardHis No. 1 global song this summer reflects performance on the weekly Billboard Global 200, charted June 8-Sept. 7, highlighting the world's biggest songs from Memorial Day to Labor Day. The Global 200 ranks songs based on streaming and sales activity from more than 200 regions around the world, as compiled by Luminate.
(Bulletin board recognizes that countries in the southern hemisphere have not been in summer for the past three months. (Listeners in these regions might at least feel a little warmer when browsing the world's greatest hits during this time.)
“Espresso” reached No. 1 on the Global 200 chart in June and spent all 14 weeks of the summer in the top three, the only song with such a perfect record to that extent and more than double the total of another hit; Billie Eilish's “Birds of a Feather” and Carpenter's “Please Please Please” each logged six weeks in the top three during that time and ended the summer at No. 2 and 4, respectively.
Here's a rundown of the 10 biggest global songs of the summer for 2024, with Carpenter the only multi-credited act on the tally:
- No. 1, 'Espresso', Sabrina Carpenter
- No. 2, “Birds of a Feather,” Billie Eilish
- No. 3, “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Shaboozey
- No. 4, “Please Please Please,” Sabrina Carpenter
- No. 5, “Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar
- No. 6, “I Had Some Help,” Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen
- No. 7, “Beautiful Things,” Benson Boone
- No. 8, “Million Dollar Baby,” Tommy Richman
- No. 9, “Too Sweet,” Hozier
- No. 10, 'Gata Only', FloyyMenor X Cris Mj
Jung Kook's “Seven” featuring Latto reigned as the No. 1 global song of the summer of 2023. Specifically, led by South Korea's Jung Kook, seven songs in the top 10 a year ago were about artists who were born outside the US This year, paced by Pennsylvania Carpenter, US-born acts claim the top eight spots, followed by Hozier, from Ireland, and FloyyMenor and Cris Mj, both from Chile.
Meanwhile, Morgan Wallen is the only act to repeat in this season's top 10 from last year. Post Malone's “I Had Some Help,” on which he appears, is at No. 6, following Wallen's “Last Night” which finished at No. 6 for 2023.
As previously mentioned, “I Had Some Help” is currently the No. 1 title Bulletin boardSongs of the Summer chart for the 2024 summer season, as based on performance on the weekly US-based Billboard Hot 100 between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
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