Music
Cardi B Tops Billboard’s Brand-New Global Songs Chart
The music-industry trade publication introduced what it calls the first-ever authoritative ranking of the top songs globally.
Cardi B performs in Miami on Jan. 31, 2020.
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For more than six decades, musicians have competed with one another to reach the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 songs chart. The competition is about to get a lot more intense.
Billboard magazine will release a largely streaming-based tally of the most popular songs in the world Monday, the first time the publication has compiled a list that measures the entire world at once. Rapper Cardi B will lead the charts in its first week with her new song “WAP,” followed by the South Korean boy band BTS with “Dynamite.”