12 “Sweetest Pie”
Megan Thee Stallion & Dua Lipa
MEGAN THEE STALLION and Dua Lipa’s “Sweetest Pie” soars onto the Billboard Global 200 at No. 12. Released March 11, the track starts with 28.4 million streams and 10,000 downloads sold worldwide in the week ending March 17, according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data.
It also enters the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 15, making for a rare type of high-profile collaboration: It’s one of only six titles by multiple best new artist Grammy Award winners to have hit the chart. (Megan Thee Stallion took home the honor in 2021; Dua Lipa did so two years prior.) The Recording Academy has awarded that trophy since 1959 (the second year that the Grammys were held), but team-ups among winners were fairly uncommon in pop music until relatively recently. The first collaboration by a pair of best new artist winners to reach the Hot 100 was Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger,” featuring Christina Aguilera. It’s also the only such pairing to top the chart, having led for four weeks in 2011.
“Sweetest Pie” becomes the fourth such song to reach the top 15 of the Hot 100, joining “Moves Like Jagger,” “Like I’m Gonna Lose You” by Meghan Trainor featuring John Legend (No. 8 peak, 2015) and “Beautiful Mistakes” by Maroon 5 featuring Megan Thee Stallion (No. 13, 2021). “Hallelujah” by Carrie Underwood and Legend (No. 54, 2021) and “All Day Long” by Chance the Rapper featuring Legend (No. 94, 2019) are the other two qualifying collaborations that have reached the Hot 100.
Chance the Rapper won best new artist in 2017, after Trainor in 2016, Underwood in 2007, Legend in 2006, Maroon 5 in 2005 and Aguilera in 2000.