LISA's "SaWaDiKa" entered YouTube's Global Weekly Top Songs chart at number one with 154,951,658 views for the tracking period of September 4 to 10, 2026, ending a run at the top for "Dai Dai" by Shakira and Burna Boy that had lasted since the week ending May 28. The Thai rapper's single led six of the fifteen national charts in the file set, drew 48,609,434 of its views from India alone, and recorded almost twice the figure of the FIFA World Cup anthem, which fell to second with 78,497,011.

In Short

LISA, the Thai member of BLACKPINK, put out a solo single called "SaWaDiKa" on September 4, and in its first full chart week it became the most-watched song on YouTube worldwide, knocking Shakira and Burna Boy's World Cup anthem off a top spot it had held all summer. That matters if you buy video advertising or license music, because YouTube's own charts are now the main public record of what people watch on the platform, and one release just reshuffled the top of the chart in fifteen countries at once. Before comparing any of these numbers with older weeks, you have to know two things: YouTube changed how it counts a view on August 24, and the chart files do not say which counter they use.

A debut at nearly twice the incumbent

The chart files for the week running Friday, September 4 through Thursday, September 10, 2026 cover four global rankings and fifteen national Top Songs charts: the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, India, Japan, Germany, France, Spain, Kenya, South Africa, the Netherlands, Portugal, Indonesia and the Philippines. The number at the top of the global songs file is the largest weekly total recorded for any title since PPC Land began documenting these releases in late 2025.

"SaWaDiKa" accounts for 10.02 percent of the 1,545,656,555 views logged across the entire global top 100. It sits 1.97 times ahead of "Dai Dai". The five leading titles together drew 344,349,804 views, or 22.3 percent of the chart, and the top ten 480,619,084, or 31.1 percent.

Two comparisons frame the scale. When BLACKPINK returned as a group in March, "GO" debuted at global number one with 43,074,419 views. The member's solo single opened at 3.6 times that figure. And the highest weekly total ever documented in this series before now belonged to "Dai Dai" itself, 117,818,800 views in the week ending August 6, a figure "SaWaDiKa" exceeds by 31.5 percent.

Both comparisons straddle a counting change. YouTube began registering a public view from the first frame of playback across every format on August 24, 2026, a rule that had applied only to Shorts since March 2025. The week ending September 10 is the second full seven-day window measured under the new rule. The files carry no methodology note, and YouTube has not stated whether the chart pipeline draws on public YouTube views, on engaged views, or on a filtered measure of its own. What the files do show is that the totals across all three view-bearing global rankings rose by double digits against the last documented week: the songs top 100 is up 23.5 percent from the 1,251,233,688 recorded for the week ending August 27, the artists top 100 up 13.3 percent, and the videos top 100 up 26.5 percent. One new release explains part of that movement. Whether a counting rule explains the rest cannot be settled from the files themselves.

A release that landed on the boundary

The global songs file marks "SaWaDiKa" as a first-period entry with no previous rank. Three other files in the same release disagree. The Global Weekly Top Music Videos chart records the official video in its second period, up from 88th. The United States songs chart has the track in its second period, up from 20th. Brazil has it in its second period, up from 86th.

The release timing explains the pattern. The single went out through LLOUD Co. and RCA Records on the evening of Thursday, September 3 in the United States, which was the morning of Friday, September 4 in Bangkok and Seoul. Rolling Stone's report on the release is dated September 3; Billboard's, dated September 4, describes the video as arriving on Friday. The files do not state where the weekly boundary falls, but a boundary set on North American time would have captured the first hours of availability inside the previous window.

PPC Land established in August that the growth column in these files behaves as a decimal fraction rather than a percentage. Read that way, the video's recorded growth of 27.82 corresponds to a rise of 2,782 percent, which places the preceding partial window at roughly 5.07 million views. The United States figure of 4.09 implies about 2.17 million in that window, and Brazil's 5.26 about 1.31 million. Those are reconstructions from a field convention, not published figures. They do mean that the 154,951,658 recorded this week is not a launch-day total. The launch hours went into a file that never showed the song at all on the global songs chart.

One more contrast sits in the same numbers. Music press reports on the video's first 24 hours put its public watch-page counter above 70 million views. A chart pipeline that logged about 5 million for the launch hours and 146 million for the following seven days is not reading the same counter, whatever it is reading. The public number and the chart number describe the same upload and do not agree.

Three BLACKPINK members, three labels, one chart

The same global top 100 contains solo work from three of BLACKPINK's four members, released through three different companies within eight days of each other.

JISOO's "CLICK" debuted at fourth with 34,210,819 views. The single arrived the same day as "SaWaDiKa", at 1 p.m. Korean time on September 4, through Blissoo and Warner Records as a pre-release from her first full-length album, according to Star News. Its video, at third on the music videos chart with 30,988,340 views, was directed by Joseph Kahn. Billboard reported on August 24 that the two members had announced their projects within hours of each other, so the head-to-head release date was set eleven days in advance. "CLICK" charts in thirteen of the fifteen national files, absent only from Kenya and South Africa, with a best national position of fifth in Australia at 341,892 views, ninth in the Netherlands and tenth in Germany. Summed across every national file it appears on, the track reaches 14,243,425 views, or 41.6 percent of its global figure.

JENNIE's "FALLEN ANGEL", the title track of a digital EP released on August 28 through Odd Atelier and Columbia Records, according to Billboard, shows the opposite trajectory. It fell from twelfth to 69th globally in its second charting period, at 8,810,132 views, with a growth field of minus 0.61, a decline of 61 percent by the same convention. The video dropped from sixth to 58th. In Australia the track fell from thirteenth to 77th, and in Indonesia from 28th to 81st. A fourth entry carries a member's name: Tame Impala's "Dracula (Remix) (feat. JENNIE)" sits at 50th in its 26th period.

That second-week shape is the one to watch. When "GO" opened at 43,074,419 views in March, it fell to 20th with 13,787,968 the following week, a decline of 68 percent. "FALLEN ANGEL" has just repeated the pattern at a smaller scale. The file for the week ending September 17 will show whether "SaWaDiKa" holds anything like its opening figure or follows the same curve.

On the Global Weekly Top Artists chart, neither JISOO nor JENNIE appears among the hundred names. The hundredth position belongs to Maroon 5 at 53,027,016 views, a bar that a single 34 million view week does not clear.

India supplies 31 percent of the number one

The fifteen national files account for 104,263,751 of the 154,951,658 views credited to "SaWaDiKa" globally, or 67.3 percent. The remaining 50,687,907 views arrive from markets for which this file set carries no chart. Thailand, the country the title greets, and South Korea are both among them.

India contributes 48,609,434 views, 31.4 percent of the global figure and more than the next four markets combined. Indonesia follows at 13,636,346, the United States at 11,068,911, Japan at 8,686,982 and Brazil at 8,172,847. Germany adds 3,580,418, France 2,919,433, the United Kingdom 2,667,654, the Philippines 2,316,601 and Australia 1,381,031. Below one million sit Spain at 486,855, South Africa at 234,017, the Netherlands at 232,765, Portugal at 143,994 and Kenya at 126,463.

That distribution inverts the group's own record. Six months ago BLACKPINK's "GO" registered no entry at all in India, Kenya or South Africa while debuting at global number one. "SaWaDiKa" charts in all fifteen markets, the only recording in the file set to do so this week. "Dai Dai" appears in thirteen, missing from Indonesia and the Philippines.

Rank tells a different story from volume. The track leads the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, India and Japan. It sits second in France, the Netherlands and Indonesia, third in Brazil, seventh in the Philippines, thirteenth in Portugal and fifteenth in Spain. In Kenya it ranks 75th and in South Africa 77th. A global number one built on Indian and Southeast Asian volume barely registers in the two African files, where the top 100 is filled largely by South African and East African recordings.

Where "Dai Dai" still leads

"Dai Dai" recorded 78,497,011 global views in what the file marks as its seventeenth charting period. The track entered the global chart at 66th in the week ending May 21, took number one the following week, and held it through the week ending September 3, a run this week's previous-rank field confirms. Fifteen consecutive weeks at the top covered the whole tournament and the summer after it. Only "Golden" by HUNTR/X and the KPop Demon Hunters Cast, which held global number one for a 31st consecutive week in January, has recorded a longer run in this series.

The decline is steeper than the rank change suggests. The figure is 12.9 percent below the 90,122,937 documented for the week ending August 27 and 33.4 percent below the August 6 peak. The track's share of the global top 100 has narrowed from 9.2 percent in mid-August to 7.20 percent at the end of the month and 5.08 percent now. The tournament it was written for concluded in July.

Territorially the contraction is sharper still. Two weeks ago the anthem held number one in nine of fifteen markets. This week it holds four: France at 3,152,165 views, Kenya at 844,827, the Netherlands at 589,275 and Portugal at 690,877. The previous-rank fields show it had already lost the United States and Kenya in the undocumented week ending September 3, then regained Kenya, climbing from third, while losing the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and Spain to this week's file. In Spain the margin was 48,025 views: "LA GRACIOSA" by Quevedo and Elvis Crespo took first with 2,046,224 against 1,998,199 for "Dai Dai". In France the anthem kept its lead over "SaWaDiKa" by 232,732 views, about 8 percent.

Summed across the thirteen national files it appears on, "Dai Dai" reaches 29,449,204 views, 37.5 percent of its global figure, close to the 38.7 percent measured in mid-August. Its territorial footprint has shrunk in rank terms without changing shape.

Fifteen markets, three kinds of number one

The national files split three ways this week: six led by "SaWaDiKa", four by "Dai Dai", and five by a recording that reaches neither the global top ten nor, in most cases, the global chart at all.

Six markets led by LISA

In the United States, "SaWaDiKa" rose from 20th to first with 11,068,911 views, 1.74 times the 6,346,184 recorded by "Choosin' Texas" by Ella Langley, which had taken the lead the previous week and now sits second in its 45th charting period. "Dai Dai" slipped to third at 5,967,548. "Sunflower" by Post Malone and Swae Lee climbed from seventh to fourth at 3,907,847 in its 74th period, KATSEYE held fifth and sixth with "Animal" and "Hootie Frutti", and "BbY WOW" by KAROL G, Judeline and rusowsky rose from tenth to seventh. Cardi B's "AH HA" fell from fourth to ninth, down 36 percent. Dolly Parton's "9 to 5", which entered at seventh in the partial week after her death, fell from sixth to fourteenth at 2,401,527, a 40 percent decline. "CLICK" sits at 27th and Miley Cyrus's "Bass Persuades" debuts at 29th.

The United Kingdom file gives "SaWaDiKa" 2,667,654 views against 1,744,659 for "Dai Dai", a margin of 1.53 times. "Golden" rose to third in its 64th period, "Ordinary" by Alex Warren rose from seventh to sixth in its 83rd, "Loser" by Tame Impala climbed from eleventh to seventh, and "9 to 5" fell from fifth to eighth. "CLICK" debuts at fourteenth.

Germany recorded 3,580,418 views for the number one, 1.62 times the 2,210,892 for "Dai Dai". Sido's "ISSA" slipped from second to third, and Blok3 occupies four of the top thirteen positions with "Sebebi Yar (Live)" at fourth, "Çok Güzel Gülüyorsun" at eighth, "Kırgınım" at eleventh and "Kayıp Kalp" at thirteenth. Helene Fischer's "An meiner Seite (Live)" entered directly at sixth with 561,526 views. "CLICK" rounds out the top ten.

Australia shows the widest margin of the six: 1,381,031 for "SaWaDiKa" against 557,242 for "Dai Dai", 2.48 times. "CLICK" debuted at fifth with 341,892, one place behind "Golden", and "Hootie Frutti" fell from third to ninth. "Die With A Smile" by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars re-entered at thirteenth in its 53rd period.

India is the market that decides the global figure, and it is also the market where the number one faced the strongest local competition. "SaWaDiKa" recorded 48,609,434 views against 36,530,476 for "KALYANI (Remix)" by ARJN, KDS, FIFTY4 and Shreya Ghoshal in its 30th period, a margin of 1.33 times. "Yeshanagula" fell from first to third at 27,358,381, down 40 percent in its second period. "Parvati" by Sadhu Tiwari climbed from sixteenth to fifth with 21,457,459 views, an 82 percent rise, and "Neno Butterfly" by G.V. Prakash Kumar and Sublahshini from 21st to eighth, up 61 percent. G.V. Prakash Kumar holds four titles in the Indian top fifteen. "CLICK" sits at 81st and "Dai Dai" at 91st. The Indian top 100 totalled 754,278,588 views, 41.3 percent of every view recorded across all fifteen national files combined.

Japan gives "SaWaDiKa" 8,686,982 views, 1.47 times the 5,918,332 for "Yes! 東京" by EBiDAN Ebisu Gakuen Boys Club, Chotokkyu, M!LK and GNJB, which had led the previous week. ILLIT's "It's Me" slipped from second to third in its 20th period. M!LK holds three titles in the top ten, including "時空超えてユニバース" entering at tenth, and ARASHI's "Paradox (Live)" debuted at ninth with 2,562,556. "CLICK" landed at eleventh. "Dai Dai" ranks 98th.

Four markets where the anthem holds

France kept "Dai Dai" at 3,152,165 views, with "SaWaDiKa" second at 2,919,433. Mauvais djo holds third and fourth with "Pilé" in its 33rd period and "Maladie" in its 21st, an eleventh with "Wagyu", and a feature on GIMS's "VIVE LA MONNAIE" at ninth. Timal's "Sicario" climbed to fifth, "PARISIENNE" by GIMS and La Mano 1.9 fell from fifth to seventh in its 58th period, and "CLICK" entered at 21st.

Kenya is the one market where the anthem gained ground, rising from third to first at 844,827 views, up 3 percent, as "Hongo Ya Karao (Vol. 2)" by Toxic Lyrikali with Mauru Gwash and Kapitani fell from first to third, down 20 percent, and Kapitani's own "Kitemeo" held second at 805,939. The margin of 38,888 views is the narrowest of the anthem's four remaining number ones. Mbosso's "Ozalima", "Finale" by Bien and Alikiba in its 25th period and "Rapudo" by Prince Indah in its 44th fill the middle of the top ten. "Imeshindikana" by Harmonize and Jay Melody entered at ninth. Ayra Starr's "Heaven Baby (feat. ZAYN)" fell from fourth to eleventh, down 47 percent. "SaWaDiKa" ranks 75th at 126,463 views.

The Netherlands file, the smallest in the set at 6,542,141 views across its hundred positions, has "Dai Dai" at 589,275 and "SaWaDiKa" second at 232,765, a margin of 2.53 times. The sharpest climb belongs to "Zwoele Zomernachten" by Rutger Van Barneveld, up from 29th to fourth at 170,213 views with a growth field of 1.65, a rise of 165 percent. "CLICK" entered at ninth and "Bass Persuades" at thirteenth.

Portugal kept "Dai Dai" at 690,877, 2.6 times the 265,086 for "PEGA OU LARGA" by Chico da Tina, who holds three titles in the top ten with "SOU GRANDE NO AMOR" at seventh and "VÍCIOS" at tenth. "Pôr do Sol" by Vizinhos climbed from tenth to fifth in its 75th period. "SaWaDiKa" sits at thirteenth with 143,994 views, its lowest position outside Africa and Spain.

Five markets where a local or catalogue title leads

Brazil returned "Peão Todo Tatuado" by jeninho and Mariana Fagundes to first at 9,320,454 views in its 24th period, as "Cuida do Pet" by Oldilla, Mc Iguinho Ct, MC Willian and Aaron Modesto fell to second, down 14 percent. "SaWaDiKa" rose from 86th to third at 8,172,847, a 526 percent climb, pushing "Dai Dai" to fourth. "NÃO SOU COMPROMETIDO GOSTO MUITO DISSO" by MC Tuto and DJ Oreia holds sixth in its 44th period with no URL recorded in the file. Zezé Di Camargo's "Irmão da Lua Amigo das Estrelas" fell from fourth to tenth, down 36 percent. "CLICK" ranks 62nd. The Brazilian top 100 totalled 225,432,708 views, the second-largest file after India.

Spain produced the closest number one in the set, "LA GRACIOSA" over "Dai Dai" by 2.4 percent, with "BbY WOW" third, up 14 percent, and "pa ti toa <3" by Ana Mena and Lola Indigo fourth. "SUPERESTRELLA" by Aitana holds eighth in its 60th period. "CAPCANA COCOA" by Blessd and Anuel AA entered at thirteenth, two places above "SaWaDiKa" at fifteenth with 486,855. "CLICK" sits at 39th.

Indonesia kept "Teh Hijau" by Tulus at first with 15,318,898 views in its tenth period, 12 percent ahead of "SaWaDiKa" at 13,636,346. "Sesi Potret" by Ari Lesmana and eńau slipped from second to third in its 31st period, Raim Laode holds fourth and fifth, Katy Perry's "The One That Got Away" rose to seventh in its 39th period, and Dua Lipa's "Training Season" climbed from thirteenth to eighth. "CLICK" sits at 24th. "Dai Dai" does not appear on the Indonesian chart at all. The file totalled 204,377,439 views, the third-largest.

South Africa kept "Remember" by Tman Xpress, Mellow and Sleazy at first, where it has sat since the week ending August 27, at 1,380,535 views, with "Ama hem hem" by Thatohatsi and Sjava featuring Shaunmusiq up from fourth to second and "Dai Dai" up from seventh to third. "Distance" by Zulu Queens, Lwah Ndlunkulu, MaWhoo and FEZA fell from second to fourth, down 26 percent. "Isesheli" by Mzukulu featuring OmaThwala climbed from 28th to tenth. "SaWaDiKa" ranks 77th at 234,017 views; "CLICK" is absent.

The Philippines file is led by a recording first released in 2010. Katy Perry's "The One That Got Away" rose from second to first at 4,160,753 views, up 22 percent in its 20th charting period, displacing "Kalapastangan (Live)" by fitterkarma, which had led in its 21st. The same title climbed from 27th to eighteenth on the global chart at 18,974,381 views. "Panaginip" by nicole held third, "Summer Crush" by HELLMERRY rose to fourth, and "SaWaDiKa" entered at seventh with 2,316,601, behind "Multo" by Cup of Joe. "CLICK" ranks 41st. Neither "Dai Dai" nor "Golden" appears on the Philippine chart.

The artist chart: LISA re-enters at eighth

The Global Weekly Top Artists chart aggregates by performer rather than recording, and it is the only file in which the week's number one does not lead.

Alka Yagnik holds first with 501,463,521 views in her 521st charting period, above the 413,386,504 recorded two weeks earlier and the 426,674,619 documented in late June. Udit Narayan follows at 369,275,377, Arijit Singh at 328,228,824, Shreya Ghoshal at 307,023,821 and Kumar Sanu at 276,861,568. The five Indian playback singers together drew 1,782,853,111 views, 17.77 percent of the 10,032,899,776 logged across the artist top 100. The top-five aggregate rose 18.2 percent against the week ending August 27, and the full chart total 13.3 percent. Only one of the five names appears on any Western national songs file this week: Shreya Ghoshal, through "KALYANI (Remix)" at 33rd in the United Kingdom and 29th in Australia. The other four are absent from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal. That engine, a back catalogue of Indian film music built over decades, has led this chart in every week PPC Land has examined since late 2025.

LISA enters at eighth with 177,423,997 views. The file records 113 charting periods and no previous rank, meaning she was absent from the top 100 in the week ending September 3 despite a long earlier tenure. Her artist total exceeds the "SaWaDiKa" songs-chart figure by 22,472,339 views, the catalogue beyond the single. Shakira sits one place above her at seventh with 180,257,024, a gap of 2,833,027. Bad Bunny holds sixth at 186,604,540. KATSEYE fell from thirteenth to sixteenth, Burna Boy from 32nd to 35th, and G.V. Prakash Kumar from fourteenth to 22nd, down 21 percent.

Four other names carry no previous rank despite long histories: Arcangel at 91st in a 368th period, Zubeen Garg at 94th in a 130th, Post Malone at 97th in a 495th and Vicente Fernández at 98th in a 419th. On this chart, a blank previous-rank field records a week's absence, not a first appearance.

The Shorts chart turned to Janmashtami

The Global Weekly Top Shorts Songs chart carries fifty rows and no views column, so its consumption cannot be sized against the other three files. Rank and tenure are the only signals. Both changed at the top.

"I Wish U Kanha Happy Birthday" by Keshav Sharma jumped from 48th to first in its fourth period, displacing "PASSO BEM SOLTO (Slowed)" by ATLXS, which slipped to second in its 77th period. Krishna Janmashtami, the festival marking the deity's birth, fell on Friday, September 4, the first day of the tracking window, and the file reads as a devotional playlist assembled from decades of Hindi film music. "Woh Kisna Hai" by Sukhwinder Singh and Ismail Darbar rose from 38th to third. "Maine Tere Hi Bharose" by Suneel Lodhi climbed from 45th to sixth. "Maiyya Yashoda", credited to Kavita Krishnamurthy, Alka Yagnik and Anuradha Paudwal, entered at thirteenth. "Radha Gori Gori" by Indresh Upadhyay and B Praak sits at eighteenth, "Radha Kaise Na Jale" by A. R. Rahman, Asha Bhosle, Udit Narayan and Vaishali Samant, from the 2001 film Lagaan, at nineteenth, and Lata Mangeshkar's "Yashoda Ka Nandlala", from 1985, at 32nd. "Shyama Aan Baso" by Sachet Tandon and Parampara Thakur closes the file at 50th.

"SaWaDiKa" does not appear on the Shorts chart. Neither does "CLICK". "Dai Dai" fell from seventeenth to 23rd in its fourteenth Shorts period. Only seven of the fifty Shorts entries appear anywhere in the global songs top 100, down from fourteen in mid-August: "KALYANI (Remix)", "misery." by pupsies, "Boom Shaka", "Ishq de Fanniyar", "Parvati", "Soja Zara" and "Dai Dai". The other 43 represent audio in active use across vertical video that generates no comparable position on the main chart.

The absence matters for the number one's prospects. PPC Land's March analysis of the Shorts-to-songs pipeline showed the longest runs in this series, including the 77 periods now logged by "PASSO BEM SOLTO (Slowed)", resting on short-form audio adoption rather than on the official video. "Dai Dai" was absent from the Shorts chart in its own debut weekand later climbed as high as second there. "SaWaDiKa" starts from the same position, with a much larger long-form base.

Videos file: 94 percent of the number one is one upload

The Global Weekly Top Music Videos chart totalled 1,010,140,597 views across a hundred entries, 65.4 percent of the songs chart total. The official "SaWaDiKa" video leads at 146,174,269, which is 14.5 percent of the entire videos chart and 94.3 percent of the track's songs-chart figure. Only 8,777,389 views, 5.7 percent, came from anything other than the one upload: alternative versions, lyric videos, YouTube Music playback, short-form use.

"CLICK" shows a similar profile, with the video at 30,988,340 against 34,210,819 for the song, 90.6 percent. "Dai Dai" runs at 73.6 percent, with the video at 57,774,253 against 78,497,011, close to the 72.7 percent measured two weeks earlier. The World Cup anthem's consumption has spread across formats over sixteen weeks; the two September debuts remain concentrated in a single watch page each.

Twenty-two entries on the videos chart carry no previous rank, among them PSY's "Gangnam Style" at 35th with 8,254,317 views in its 55th period, KAROL G's "Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido" at 23rd, Taylor Swift's "The Fate of Ophelia" at 43rd and BTS's "2.0" at 77th. Row 52 of the file is blank: 6,470,191 views, four charting periods, no title, no artist and no URL. The source carries no explanation.

Chart tenure again diverges between files for the same recording. "Dai Dai" shows seventeen periods on the songs chart and sixteen on the videos chart; several national files, including the United States, the United Kingdom and France, record sixteen. "Golden" shows 64 on the songs chart and 48 on the videos chart. Tenure is counted per chart rather than per recording, so a track's chart age depends on which file is open.

Fragmentation holds at 85 percent

Across the fifteen national files, 1,500 chart positions are occupied by 1,054 distinct recordings. Of those, 899 appear on exactly one national chart, or 85.3 percent. The comparable counts were 1,074 recordings and 914 single-market titles for the week ending August 27, and 1,112 and 958 for the week ending August 13. A number one that reaches fifteen markets at once did not change the proportion of recordings that reach one.

After "SaWaDiKa" at fifteen and "Dai Dai" and "CLICK" at thirteen apiece, the next most widely distributed titles are "Hootie Frutti" on eleven charts, then "Animal", "ICONIC BY MISTAKE" and Dua Lipa's "Training Season" on ten. "Training Season", a 2024 single, rose from sixteenth to eighth globally at 27,248,867 views in its fifth period, with a live version at fifteenth on the videos chart.

Overlap with the global top 100 ranges from 42 shared titles in the Netherlands and 39 in Germany down to nine in Japan and four each in Kenya and South Africa. Volume ranges wider still: India's top 100 carries 115 times the views of the Dutch top 100 across the same hundred positions.

Why this matters for media buyers

YouTube withdrew its streaming data from Billboard chart calculations effective January 16, 2026, after a dispute over how ad-supported consumption is weighted against subscription listening. Since then these weekly files have been the primary public record of what audiences watch on a platform that generated 11.1 billion dollars in advertising revenue in the second quarter of 2026, up 13 percent year over year. There is no external cross-check.

Three consequences follow from this week's files. First, the counting question is no longer hypothetical. A comparison between the 154,951,658 views logged this week and the 117,818,800 peak logged in early August straddles a rule change that, by YouTube's own statement, makes public counters climb faster while leaving creator payment on engaged views. Any benchmark, rate card or case study built on weekly chart figures now has a seam running through the second half of August, and nothing in the files marks where it falls. Sponsorship pricing keyed to a cost-per-thousand basis is the obvious pressure point.

Second, the shape of the number one differs from the one it replaced. With 94.3 percent of its consumption inside a single upload and no Shorts presence, "SaWaDiKa" is a long-form event, which means the audience against which a pre-roll or mid-roll runs sits on one watch page in one week. "Dai Dai" spread across formats and lasted fifteen weeks at the top. The Partner Program changes taking effect on February 1, 2027, which double the Shorts entry threshold to 20 million qualified views across 90 days, make short-form adoption a measurable commercial variable for every recording in these files, and the Shorts chart's missing views column means that variable cannot be read from the file that tracks it.

Third, the territorial arithmetic has not moved. A global number one that leads six markets, sits fifteenth in Spain and 77th in South Africa does not describe a single audience. The 899 single-market recordings quantify what a globally uniform contextual buy does not reach, and the 41.3 percent of all national-chart views sitting in the Indian file quantifies which market sets the global bar. Both figures were true when the chart was led by a World Cup anthem. They remain true with a Bangkok-shot rap single at the top.

What comes next is on the calendar. According to Rolling Stone, "SaWaDiKa" is the lead single from an EP titled Press Play due on October 23, a documentary titled Always Lalisa opens on October 12, and a Las Vegas residency follows in November. Whether that pipeline turns a 155 million view week into a run, or whether the file for the week ending September 17 shows the same second-week collapse that met "GO" and "FALLEN ANGEL", is the question the next release will answer.

Timeline

Summary

Who: YouTube, operated by Google under Alphabet, published the weekly chart files. The recordings and performers at the centre of the data are LISA ("SaWaDiKa"), Shakira and Burna Boy ("Dai Dai"), JISOO ("CLICK"), JENNIE ("FALLEN ANGEL"), ARJN, KDS, FIFTY4 and Shreya Ghoshal ("KALYANI (Remix)"), HUNTR/X and the KPop Demon Hunters Cast ("Golden"), KAROL G with Judeline and rusowsky ("BbY WOW"), Keshav Sharma ("I Wish U Kanha Happy Birthday"), ATLXS ("PASSO BEM SOLTO (Slowed)"), Indian playback singers Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan, Arijit Singh, Shreya Ghoshal and Kumar Sanu, Katy Perry ("The One That Got Away"), Tulus (Indonesia), Quevedo and Elvis Crespo (Spain), jeninho and Mariana Fagundes (Brazil) and Tman Xpress with Mellow and Sleazy (South Africa). The audiences affected are media buyers, agencies, labels, publishers and measurement teams planning against YouTube music consumption.

What: "SaWaDiKa" entered the Global Weekly Top Songs chart at number one with 154,951,658 views, 10.02 percent of the top 100 and 1.97 times the 78,497,011 for "Dai Dai", which fell to second after fifteen consecutive weeks at the top. The single led six of fifteen national charts, drew 48,609,434 views from India, charted in all fifteen markets and registered no Shorts presence, with 94.3 percent of its consumption inside the official video. "CLICK" debuted at fourth and "FALLEN ANGEL" fell 61 percent in its second week. Across the national files, 899 of 1,054 distinct recordings chart in exactly one market. A Krishna Janmashtami recording took the Shorts number one from a track in its 77th period.

When: The tracking period ran from Friday, September 4 to Thursday, September 10, 2026. "CLICK" was released on September 4 at 1 p.m. Korean time. "SaWaDiKa" went out on the evening of September 3 in the United States, the morning of September 4 in Bangkok and Seoul, and registered in the preceding window on three of the nineteen files.

Where: Across YouTube and YouTube Music globally, with individual Top Songs charts for the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, India, Japan, Germany, France, Spain, Kenya, South Africa, the Netherlands, Portugal, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Why: Since YouTube withdrew from Billboard chart calculations on January 16, 2026, these files have been the primary public record of music consumption on a platform that generated 11.1 billion dollars in advertising revenue in the second quarter. The week's number one is the largest weekly figure documented in the series, recorded under a view-counting rule that changed on August 24 and that the files do not describe, which puts a seam through every comparison with the summer's totals. The territorial split, the Shorts absence and the second-week collapses of two comparable releases define what the figure does and does not describe for anyone planning against it.