YouTube's weekly music charts for the tracking period ending September 17, 2026 show "Dai Dai" by Shakira and Burna Boy back at number one on the Global Weekly Top Songs chart, one week after "SaWaDiKa" by LISA had ended the track's fifteen-week run at the top. The reversal was immediate and steep: LISA's single, which had opened at number one with 154,951,658 views, fell to fifth place with 32,700,768 views, a decline of roughly 79 percent measured against its debut week. "Dai Dai" reclaimed the summit with 70,651,536 views in its eighteenth charting period, a total lower than the 90.1 million views it held before losing the top spot three weeks earlier, according to the current file.

In Short

YouTube's charts, which rank songs by how many people watched or listened to them that week, put Shakira and Burna Boy's "Dai Dai" back at number one after a song by the artist LISA held the spot for exactly one week. That single week followed a pattern seen with other big debuts this year, where a song opens huge and then loses most of its audience almost immediately, which matters to anyone who buys advertising or licenses music based on what looks popular right now. The practical change is that a one-week chart-topper does not necessarily signal a lasting hit, and the underlying numbers show "Dai Dai" itself continuing a slow decline even while sitting at the top.

A fifteen-week run interrupted, then resumed

The tracking window running from Friday to Thursday closed on September 17, 2026, and the resulting files cover four global rankings, plus separate national charts for fifteen countries, according to the source data reviewed for this article. "Dai Dai" occupies the top position on the Global Weekly Top Songs chart with 70,651,536 views in its eighteenth period, up from second place a week earlier. The same track also leads the Global Weekly Top Music Videos chart with 51,277,968 views, and it holds the number one position in seven of the fourteen national song charts examined: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Kenya, the Netherlands, Portugal and Australia.

The track's path to that seven-market sweep was not linear. "Dai Dai" first reached number one on the Global Weekly Top Songs chart for the week ending May 28, 2026, debuting with 44,129,627 views after climbing from position 66 a week earlier. It held the top spot through the northern-hemisphere summer, peaking at a documented 117,818,800 views in the week ending August 6, before settling into a gradual decline that PPC Land tracked through mid-August. By the week ending September 10, that decline had continued to 78,497,011 views, and a new challenger arrived to end the run outright.

"SaWaDiKa" by the Thai rapper LISA entered the Global Weekly Top Songs chart at number one for the week ending September 10, with 154,951,658 views, a figure that represented, at the time, the largest weekly total recorded for any title since PPC Land began documenting these files in late 2025. The single led six of fifteen national charts that week and drew 48,609,434 views from India alone, according to the same coverage. Seven days later, in the file examined for this article, "SaWaDiKa" sits fifth globally with 32,700,768 views in its second charting period, a fall of 78.9 percent from its debut total.

A pattern this publication has now documented three times

The collapse fits a sequence that PPC Land's coverage of these files has flagged repeatedly through 2026. In March, BLACKPINK's "GO" debuted at global number one and fell to twentieth place the following week, a decline the outlet described at the time as a 68 percent drop. In late August, JENNIE's "FALLEN ANGEL," the title track of a digital EP released through Odd Atelier and Columbia Records, fell 61 percent in its second week after debuting inside the top five; the current file shows the track has since dropped out of the global top 100 altogether. "CLICK," which had debuted at fourth position alongside "SaWaDiKa" in the September 10 file, has likewise disappeared from the current top 100.

Three debut-then-collapse cycles inside seven months is not proof of a universal rule, and the sample is small. But the pattern is now consistent enough that PPC Land's own coverage posed the question directly after "SaWaDiKa" took the top spot: whether the file for the week ending September 17 would show "the same second-week collapse that met 'GO' and 'FALLEN ANGEL.'" The data examined for this article answers that question. It did.

What separates "Dai Dai" from the tracks that collapsed and vanished is durability rather than peak size. Its own debut week, at 44.1 million views, was modest next to "SaWaDiKa's" 155 million. What the track has sustained since is eighteen consecutive charting periods, a run that included holding number one for fifteen straight weeks before "SaWaDiKa" interrupted it, and reclaiming the position after only a single week away. Its own view total this week, 70,651,536, continues a gradual downward slope from the August peak rather than showing any renewed surge, consistent with a slow, steady decline rather than the spike-and-fall shape documented in the tracks above.

The growth figures do not match the raw numbers

One methodological detail is worth flagging directly, because it affects how the file's own percentage column should be read. The Growth field for "SaWaDiKa" in the current file shows -0.79 percent. Measured against the track's own reported view totals for the two weeks, however, the actual decline is roughly 78.9 percent, essentially two orders of magnitude larger than the figure the Growth column itself displays. This is not a one-off error specific to this track; PPC Land's earlier analysis of the mid-August files noted that the Growth column in these releases appears to behave as a decimal fraction rather than a conventional percentage, meaning the figure printed alongside each entry understates the scale of week-over-week change by roughly a factor of one hundred. Anyone using the Growth column to screen for momentum, rather than computing the change from the raw view totals, would substantially misjudge how sharply a track has moved.

YouTube's files carry no methodology note addressing this discrepancy, and the company has not published documentation describing how the Growth figure is derived. The gap sits alongside a separate, previously documented uncertainty: since ending its data-sharing arrangement with Billboard effective January 16, 2026, YouTube has not stated whether its weekly chart files draw on public views, engaged views, or some filtered measure of its own, a question that took on additional weight after the platform began counting a public view from the first frame of playback across all formats on August 24, 2026.

Regional splits stay wide

"Dai Dai's" seven-market sweep this week leaves a substantial share of the tracked territories untouched by the track entirely. It does not appear in the current top 100 for Indonesia, India, Japan or the Philippines, four of the fourteen national charts examined. Each of those markets instead shows a locally rooted number one with no equivalent presence on the global chart: "Teh Hijau" by Tulus leads Indonesia; "Parvati" by Sadhu Tiwari, itself the global chart's second-place song this week with 53,848,831 views, leads India; a track credited to the collective EBiDAN Ebisu Gakuen Boys Club and several other acts leads Japan; and "The One That Got Away" by Katy Perry, in its 21st charting period, leads the Philippines.

Brazil and the United States present a further variation: neither market's local number one matches the global leader either. In Brazil, "Cuida do Pet," credited to Oldilla, Mc Iguinho Ct, MC Willian and Aaron Modesto, tops the national chart, while "Dai Dai" holds fourth position there for a second consecutive week, with 5,890,742 views. In the United States, "Choosin' Texas" by Ella Langley climbs to the top position from second place, in its 46th charting period, with "Dai Dai" trailing at second with 5,205,281 views. Spain's own top song, "BbY WOW" by KAROL G, Judeline and rusowsky, ranks fourth on the global chart with 40,668,806 views, while "Dai Dai" itself sits third domestically in Spain. South Africa's local chart is topped by "Remember," credited to Tman Xpress, Mellow and Sleazy, with "Dai Dai" down at sixth position there.

This territorial fragmentation is not a new observation. PPC Land's earlier reading of the YouTube Charts product itself has documented that regional music ecosystems tend to operate largely independent of global trends, with audiences in markets carrying strong domestic music industries, India and Brazil chief among them in the current data, showing limited crossover into whatever track leads the aggregated global count. The current file is consistent with that pattern: of the fourteen national charts examined here, seven show "Dai Dai" at number one, three show it charting outside the top spot, and four show no appearance for the track at all inside their own top 100.

Catalogue tracks persist alongside new releases

The current-release competition documented above sits alongside a separate, slower-moving story visible in the same files: a body of older recordings that continue to draw measurable weekly audiences years, and in some cases decades, after their original release. "Golden," performed by HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI and the KPop Demon Hunters Cast for the Netflix animated film of the same name, sits eighth on the current global songs chart with 29,486,938 views in its 65th charting period, the longest tenure of any track inside the current top 100. The soundtrack's persistence has been a recurring subject of PPC Land's coverage since it first led the global chart at the close of 2025.

Several tracks with no recent release date reappear in the current file as new entries, meaning they were absent from the prior week's top 100 and have since climbed back in. "Cheri Cheri Lady" by Modern Talking, a group whose active recording period predates the platform itself by decades, enters at rank 54 with 10,959,040 views in a 28th charting period. Linkin Park's "In The End" enters at 70 with 9,188,542 views in a 38th period. "Señorita" by Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello enters at 76 with 8,636,885 views in its 59th period, the second-longest tenure in the current top 100 after "Golden." Alphaville's "Forever Young" enters at 88 with 7,987,661 views in its 23rd period.

The Global Weekly Top Artists chart, which aggregates by performer across an entire catalogue rather than by individual recording, shows a similarly durable pattern at its summit. Alka Yagnik leads with 518,161,947 views accumulated over 522 tracked periods, followed by Udit Narayan at 381,085,511 views over 543 periods and Arijit Singh at 366,296,141 views over 552 periods. All three names, alongside fourth-place Shreya Ghoshal and fifth-place Kumar Sanu, are established figures in Indian playback singing rather than recent chart entrants, and the top five positions on this ranking have shown limited movement across the weeks PPC Land has examined. Shakira herself sits tenth on the artist chart, at 169,382,557 views across 552 periods, down one position from the previous week; Burna Boy, credited separately, sits 42nd with 83,498,246 views across 67 periods.

Shorts chart shows a different leader entirely

The Global Weekly Top Songs on Shorts chart, which measures short-form audio adoption by creators rather than direct song or video plays, presents its own, largely separate leaderboard. "Wrap Me In Plastic" by CHROMANCE and Marcus Layton leads that ranking in its fourth charting period, having climbed from fifth place. "PASSO BEM SOLTO (Slowed)" by ATLXS holds second position in its 78th charting period, extending a tenure PPC Land's explainer on chart tenure has previously used to illustrate how a single track can accumulate a multi-year presence on this particular chart type. "Dai Dai" does not appear inside the Shorts chart's top fifteen positions in the current file, consistent with the track's documented pattern of drawing the bulk of its consumption from the official music video and other long-form formats rather than from short-form creator adoption.

The Shorts chart's own leaderboard skews heavily toward tracks with no equivalent presence on the main songs chart, a divergence this file continues. Several entries inside its top fifteen, including "Cool ( That Or That )" by easethepain and "misery." by pupsies, do not appear among the leading positions of the Global Weekly Top Songs chart at all, underscoring that the two charts measure genuinely different forms of audience behaviour rather than two views of the same underlying popularity.

Why the numbers matter beyond the leaderboard

For anyone planning video advertising, contextual music placements or sync licensing deals, the specific week-to-week rank matters less than the shape of the underlying curve, and this week's files make that shape unusually visible. A track that draws 155 million views in a debut week and 33 million a week later is not demonstrating a fifteen-week trajectory in miniature; it is demonstrating a spike that a media plan built around "the current number one" would have badly mistimed. "Dai Dai," by contrast, never posted a single week above 118 million views, yet it has now spent eighteen periods on the chart and reclaimed the top spot after losing it for exactly one week, a pattern closer to sustained demand than to a promotional surge.

Since YouTube ended its data-sharing arrangement with Billboard, these weekly files have functioned, in the absence of any external cross-check, as the primary public record of what audiences are watching and listening to on the platform. That status places additional weight on the counting questions documented above, including the undisclosed Growth-column discrepancy and the unresolved question of which view definition, public, engaged or otherwise, feeds each chart. Both points affect how confidently a rank change in these files can be read as a genuine shift in audience behaviour rather than an artefact of how the underlying number is calculated.

Timeline

Summary

Who: YouTube, the video platform owned by Alphabet, published weekly music chart data for the tracking period ending September 17, 2026, covering the Global Weekly Top Songs, Top Artists, Top Music Videos and Top Songs on Shorts charts, alongside separate national Top Songs charts for fourteen individual territories.

What: "Dai Dai" by Shakira and Burna Boy reclaimed the number one position on the Global Weekly Top Songs chart with 70,651,536 views, one week after "SaWaDiKa" by LISA had ended the track's fifteen-week run at the top with a debut of 154,951,658 views. "SaWaDiKa" fell to fifth place with 32,700,768 views in its second charting period, a decline of roughly 79 percent from its debut total.

When: The tracking period covered runs from Friday, September 11 through Thursday, September 17, 2026, following directly from the prior week's file covering September 4 through 10.

Where: The reclaimed number one position applies globally and across seven of fourteen examined national charts: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Kenya, the Netherlands, Portugal and Australia. Four national charts, Indonesia, India, Japan and the Philippines, show no appearance for "Dai Dai" at all, each led instead by a locally rooted track absent from the global ranking.

Why: The reversal extends a pattern PPC Land's coverage has now documented three times in 2026, in which a track debuting at a very high view count loses the large majority of that audience within a single week, distinct from the slower, sustained decline that carried "Dai Dai" through fifteen consecutive weeks at number one before "SaWaDiKa" briefly interrupted it. The files also surface a discrepancy between the printed Growth-column figure and the actual percentage change calculable from the raw view totals, a gap with direct implications for anyone using these files, now the primary public record of YouTube consumption following the platform's withdrawal from Billboard's chart calculations, to assess momentum rather than simple rank.