Jung Kook’s “Seven” featuring Latto reigns as Billboard’s No. 1 global song of the summer for 2023.
The collaboration between the BTS member and the rapper launched at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 chart dated July 29 and has yet to relinquish the top spot, through the survey dated Sept. 9.
The race for Billboard’s No. 1 global song this summer reflects performance on the weekly Global 200, from charts dated June 10-Sept. 9, spotlighting the biggest songs worldwide from Memorial Day through Labor Day. The Global 200 ranks songs based on streaming and sales activity culled from more than 200 territories around the world, as compiled by Luminate.
(Billboard recognizes that countries in the Southern Hemisphere were not in summer the past three months. Listeners in those territories might feel a bit warmer browsing the biggest worldwide hits over that span.)
Here is a rundown of the 10 biggest global songs of the summer for 2023:
No. 1, “Seven,” Jung Kook feat. Latto
No. 2, “Flowers,” Miley Cyrus
No. 3, “Cruel Summer,” Taylor Swift
No. 4, “La Bebe,” Yng Lvcas x Peso Pluma
No. 5, “Ella Baila Sola,” Eslabon Armado x Peso Pluma
No. 6, “Calm Down,” Rema & Selena Gomez
No. 7, “Cupid,” Fifty Fifty
No. 8, “Last Night,” Morgan Wallen
No. 9, “Where She Goes,” Bad Bunny
No. 10, “Dance the Night,” Dua Lipa
In addition to “Seven,” K-pop shines bright on the chart above via Fifty Fifty’s breakout hit, “Cupid,” at No. 7 for the summer. (The quartet made history as “Cupid” became the first song by an all-female South Korean group to reach the top 10 of Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart.)
Latin music likewise boasts a strong showing, thanks to three songs in the summer’s global top 10, including two by Peso Pluma: Yng Lvcas and Peso Pluma’s “La Bebe” (No. 4), Eslabon Armado and Peso Pluma’s “Ella Baila Sola” (No. 5) and Bad Bunny’s “Where She Goes” (No. 9), with the latter two tracks having hit No. 1 on the weekly Global 200.
Meanwhile, here is a look at the territories represented by the artists on the retrospective: U.S., including Puerto Rico, seven (Latto, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Eslabon Armado, Selena Gomez, Morgan Wallen, Bad Bunny); South Korea, two (Jung Kook, Fifty Fifty); Mexico, two (Yng Lvcas, Peso Pluma); Nigeria, one (Rema); and England, one (Dua Lipa).
As previously reported, Wallen’s “Last Night,” at No. 8 on the recap above, emerged victorious as the No. 1 title on Billboard’s Songs of the Summer chart for the 2023 summer season, as based on performance on the weekly, U.S.-based Billboard Hot 100 between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
