GLOBAL 200 9 One Right Now

Post Malone & The Weeknd

TWO SONGS SOAR INTO THE TOP 10 of the Billboard Global 200, led by Post Malone (above) and The Weeknd’s first-ever collaboration, “One Right Now.” The single starts at No. 9 with 37.8 million streams and 16,700 downloads sold worldwide in the week ending Nov. 11, according to MRC

Data, following its Nov. 5 release. Post Malone earns his first Global 200 top 10 hit, dating back to the chart’s September 2020 inception, and The Weeknd adds his sixth.

Travis Scott’s “Escape Plan” debuts at No. 10 with 39.2 million streams and 9,400 sold globally, marking his third top 10 entry on the chart. He released the track on Nov. 5, just ahead of the opening night of his Astroworld festival in Houston, which ended in tragedy after crowd surges resulted in 10 deaths and hundreds of injuries (see story, page 25).

Meanwhile, for the second time — and second consecutive week — since the Global 200 launched, the chart’s top five exclusively comprises artists from outside the United States. The acts’ countries of origin: England (Adele, Ed Sheeran, Elton John and Dua Lipa), Australia (The Kid LAROI), Canada (Justin Bieber) and Nigeria (CKay).

“The beauty of British music over the years is that it has spanned so many genres,” Martin Talbot, CEO of the London-based Official Charts Company, says of British artists’ success on the upper reaches of the chart. “The multicultural nature of our society, with immigration from so many parts of the world, including the Caribbean, the Far East, Northern, Eastern and Southern Europe, Africa and even Ireland has always helped feed into the great richness of our culture and our music.”