Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” and BTS’ “Dynamite” crowned the 2021 year-end Billboard Global 200 Songs and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. Songs charts.
Not only did Dua Lipa conquer the U.S. with the No. 1 year-end Billboard Hot 100 song, but ’s “Levitating” is 2021’s biggest song in the world. “Levitating” is the No. 1 Billboard Global 200 song of 2021, without ever having reached the top of the weekly chart.
Lipa shot 13-8 on the Jan. 16-dated chart, beginning a non-consecutive 32-week run in the top 10. She spent six weeks between Nos. 7-8 before dipping in-and-out of the top 10, and then returned and slowly made its way up the ladder with three weeks at No. 6, three more at No. 4, then to No. 3 and ultimately to its peak at No. 2 for a week in late-May, behind Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U.”
Rodrigo kicked off the year with “Drivers License” debuting atop both Global charts in January and staying there for eight weeks . No other song has debuted and stuck to the top for that long, though one of her own follow-ups came quite close. “Good 4 U” debuted at No. 1 on the May 29-dated Global 200 and spent six of its first eight weeks at No. 1, the other two at No. 2.The seven-piece South Korean group is the year’s top artist, and has the year’s top song, on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S.
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