YouTube's weekly music chart files for the tracking period of July 31 through August 6, 2026 place "Dai Dai" by Shakira and Burna Boy at number one in nine of 15 country charts, with 117,818,800 global views, while Indian playback singers occupy all five top positions on the global artist ranking.

According to the chart data covering the seven-day window ending Thursday, August 6, 2026, YouTube measured consumption across four global rankings - the Global Weekly Top Songs, Global Weekly Top Music Videos, Global Weekly Top Artists, and Global Weekly Top Shorts Songs charts - alongside individual Top Songs charts for 15 territories: the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, India, Japan, Germany, France, Spain, Kenya, South Africa, the Netherlands, Portugal, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The Philippines chart is an addition relative to the 14-country set examined in mid-July.

The headline number sits at the top of the global songs file. "Dai Dai," the official anthem of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, accumulated 117,818,800 views in its 12th week on the chart. The figure runs roughly 27 percent above the 92,669,391 views the track recorded in the week ending July 16, 2026, which stood as the highest weekly total documented in this series at the time. The gap to the rest of the chart remains extreme. Second-placed "Golden" by HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI and KPop Demon Hunters Cast drew 31,523,973 views, meaning the leader outdrew the runner-up by a factor of 3.7. One track now accounts for 9.1 percent of the 1,298,023,126 views generated by the entire global top 100.

The anthem outlasted its tournament

The tournament that produced the song ended weeks ago. The 2026 FIFA World Cup opened on June 11 across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and concluded with the final on July 19, 2026 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The chart week in question closed 18 days after that final, yet the track posted its highest documented total. Tournament anthems were expected to decay with the competition calendar; this one accelerated after the trophy was lifted.

The source file does record a cooling at the margin. The growth field shows -0.05% for the track, a figure consistent in this data series with a decline of roughly 5 percent week over week, indicating the total ran higher still during the tracking period ending July 30, 2026 - a week for which no figure had previously been documented in this coverage. Even a 5 percent retreat leaves the song far above the trajectory it held while matches were being played. In the United States alone it drew 9,402,009 views, up more than 60 percent from the 5,850,028 views recorded in the week ending July 16.

The trajectory has been documented step by step. The track debuted at global number one with 44,129,627 views in the week ending May 28, 2026, climbing from position 66 in a single week and ending the long run of Brazilian phonk track "NO BATIDÃO." It held 73,770,487 views in its fifth week, slipped to 68,569,178 in its sixth, then claimed France and Germany for the first time in the week ending July 2, 2026 at 78,307,586 views before the mid-July surge. The full arc, from a position-66 debut week to nearly 118 million views three weeks after the tournament closed, has no parallel in the weekly data PPC Land has tracked since late 2025.

Nine number ones and six holdouts

Territory files show the track at number one in nine markets: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Australia, and Kenya. Kenya is a gain. The mid-July data listed eight number-one markets, and Kenya was not among them; the current file shows the track first in the Kenyan chart for at least a second consecutive week, at 1,766,888 views. South Africa moved the other way. "Sengithole Omunye" by FEZA rose from second to first at 1,286,214 views during the current week, pushing "Dai Dai" - number one there in the prior period - down to second.

The six holdouts follow a consistent pattern: the largest non-Western markets prefer local repertoire. India's chart is led by "KALYANI (Remix)" by KDS, ARJN, Shreya Ghoshal and FIFTY4 at 24,010,859 views, a total larger than any other country's number one. Brazil belongs to "Cuida do Pet" by Oldilla, Mc Iguinho Ct, MC Willian and Aaron Modesto at 11,332,344 views, with "Dai Dai" second. Indonesia's leader is "Sesi Potret" by Ari Lesmana and eńau at 12,163,254 views in its 26th week. Japan produced the sharpest movement of the week: "Brand New" by Mrs. GREEN APPLE jumped from ninth to first at 4,606,446 views in its fourth week, its views more than doubling per the 1.41% growth reading in the file. The Philippines chart is led by "Kalapastangan (Live)" by fitterkarma at 4,715,056 views. In those markets the global anthem barely registers - it ranks 26th in India, 52nd in Japan, 57th in Indonesia, and 89th in the Philippines.

A comparison of the files quantifies the fragmentation. The Netherlands shares 47 of its 100 chart entries with the global top 100 and Germany shares 45, while Japan shares 11, the Philippines nine, Kenya five, and South Africa three. At one end of the range, nearly half of a national chart mirrors the global list; at the other, barely three entries in a hundred do. "Golden," still global number two in its 59th week, illustrates the same split: it holds top-five positions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Australia, appears in eight of the 15 country charts overall, and is absent from the top 100 in Spain, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, and South Africa.

Volume concentrates where Western campaigns rarely look. India's top 100 aggregates 516,404,318 views for the week, more than three times the United States total of 166,074,895 and more than the combined totals of the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Australia, which sum to 330,345,706. Brazil contributes 209,092,442 views and Indonesia 174,665,102. The Netherlands, by contrast, generates 5,709,590 views across its entire top 100 - less than a single mid-table Indian track.

India's lock on the artist rankings

The Global Weekly Top Artists chart crossed a threshold this week. Alka Yagnik leads with 434,260,626 views in her 516th charting period, a tenure of roughly 9.9 years, followed by Udit Narayan at 318,798,958, Arijit Singh at 305,534,745, Kumar Sanu at 245,031,244, and Shreya Ghoshal at 241,078,963. All five are Indian playback singers, and together they drew 1,544,704,536 views in seven days. The all-Indian top five formed during this tracking period: Shakira slipped from fourth to sixth at 238,085,037 views, allowing Kumar Sanu and Shreya Ghoshal to move up one place each. Earlier coverage in this series had documented four Indian singers holding the top four positions with more than one billion combined weekly views; the current file extends that structure by one slot.

Seven of the top 10 artists record from India once Shilpi Raj, the Bhojpuri singer at eighth with 147,959,820 views, and Sonu Nigam at tenth are counted. Shakira at sixth, Bad Bunny at seventh, and Fuerza Regida at ninth are the only non-Indian entries in that group. The chart contains no debuts at all this week, and six names - Arijit Singh, Shakira, Ariana Grande, Michael Jackson, BTS, and Justin Bieber - show 546 charting periods, the maximum value in the file and a span of roughly 10.5 years. The 100 listed artists drew 9,084,869,199 combined views during the week.

One movement stands out against that stability. Ariana Grande climbed from 26th to 11th at 143,212,786 views, a rise the file records at 0.5% growth, consistent with an increase of roughly 50 percent. The jump coincides with "petal," her new single, entering the global songs chart at position 63 with 9,277,798 views. It was one of only five debuts on the global songs chart, alongside BABYMONSTER's "MOON" - the highest new entry, at 34 with 12,249,925 views - "Barsaat" by Banjaare and Roni at 59, "CRUSH!" by CRUSH at 93, and the Thai-language "เพราะพี่รักจริง" by หนึ่ง บีเคแบนด์ at 99.

Catalog weeks keep piling up

Old music continues to occupy a striking share of the global top 100. "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" by Shakira, the 2010 World Cup song, sits sixth at 23,335,418 views in its 60th charting week, three weeks after a tournament it had nothing to do with. "Sunflower" by Post Malone and Swae Lee, released in 2018, re-entered the top 10 at position 10 with 19,163,219 views in its 76th week, climbing from 21st on a growth reading of 0.35% - roughly 35 percent in this series' convention. Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" holds 14th in its 40th week. Katy Perry's 2011 single "The One That Got Away" ranks 13th globally in its 18th week, powered substantially by the Philippines, where it sits third at 3,195,176 views. PSY's "Gangnam Style," first released in 2012, logs its 97th week on the chart at position 53. Taylor Swift's "The Fate of Ophelia" remains at 50 in its 44th week. "Life Goes On" by Oliver Tree, which entered the global chart at number three after the artist's death on June 14, 2026, holds fifth at 23,443,188 views in its 21st week.

The Shorts chart runs on its own clock

The Global Weekly Top Shorts Songs chart, limited to 50 positions and published without view counts, tells a different story from the main ranking. "PASSO BEM SOLTO (Slowed)" by ATLXS holds number one for a 72nd period - a run that already stood at 62 consecutive weeks when "Dai Dai" first reached the main chart's summit in late May. "Dai Dai" itself sits second on Shorts in its ninth period there, three weeks behind its main-chart tenure, a lag consistent with the pattern earlier coverage identified in which Shorts creator adoption precedes and sustains main-chart position for organically grown hits, and follows it for promotionally launched ones.

Brazilian funk and montagem edits dominate the format's midfield: "LET ME DRIVE FUNK" at seventh, "Sua amiga eu vou pegar" at ninth, "FUNK SIGILO" at 11th, "MONTAGEM DELÍRIO (Super Slowed)" at 14th, with two further montagem edits among the four debuts. The week's oddities cluster here too. "Haaland (Ha Ha Ha)" by CTID reached fifth in its third week, and "Golden Brown" by The Stranglers, a single first released in 1982, holds 12th in its 15th week. The highest Shorts debut is the Hindi devotional "Bhole Maa Ka Dil Na Dukhaiyo" by Farmani Naaz and Anil Rawat at 15.

On the Global Weekly Top Music Videos chart, the official "Dai Dai" video leads at 84,216,180 views - roughly 71 percent of the track's cross-format global total, with the remainder accruing through lyric videos, audio uploads, and user-generated content. "Golden" is second at 16,735,112 views in its 43rd video-chart week, "Barbaadi" by Shilpi Raj third at 16,344,996, and the "KALYANI (Remix)" video re-entered at seventh with 12,408,093 views. The video top 100 aggregates 709,480,417 views.

Inside the files

The data set consists of 19 comma-separated files. Country song charts and the global songs, artists, and videos charts each carry 100 positions with rank, previous rank, name fields, periods on chart, views, a growth field, and a video URL where applicable; the Shorts chart carries 50 positions and omits both views and growth. Tracking weeks run Friday through Thursday, with the current files covering July 31 to August 6, 2026. The growth field is expressed as a decimal fraction with a percent sign appended - a value of 0.35% corresponds to a rise of roughly 35 percent, a convention this series has applied consistently and one corroborated by the accompanying rank movements. The charts count views, including replays and background plays, rather than completed streams, a definitional point that separates them from subscription-service metrics.

Why the numbers matter for media buyers

The measurement stakes changed at the start of 2026. YouTube withdrew its data from Billboard charts effective January 16, 2026, a decision announced on December 17, 2025 after the platform's global head of music, Lyor Cohen, argued that Billboard applied a formula weighting subscription streams above ad-supported ones, according to PPC Land reporting. These weekly files consequently function as the primary public record of music consumption across a platform charting more than 60 markets, with no Billboard cross-reference available. For sync licensing, artist partnerships, and audio-adjacent campaign planning, the ranking that matters is increasingly this one.

The money attached to the inventory keeps growing. YouTube advertising revenue reached $11.1 billion in the second quarter of 2026, up 13 percent year over year, according to Alphabet's July 22, 2026 earnings release covered by PPC Land. Music consumption at the scale documented in these files - 1.3 billion weekly views in the global top 100 alone - forms part of the supply behind that figure. The Shorts surface carries its own economics: YouTube Shorts reached revenue parity with long-form video per watch hour in the United States during the third quarter of 2025, which makes the absence of view counts in the Shorts chart file a genuine planning gap; relative position and chart tenure are the only published signals for the format.

The territorial data carries the most direct planning consequence. Where does a global music moment actually happen? On this evidence, in nine Western-leaning markets plus Kenya - and almost nowhere else. A campaign synchronized to "Dai Dai" reaches the dominant track in the United States and most of Western Europe while missing the number one in every one of the six highest-volume non-Western markets in the set. The inverse holds for the artist chart, where 1.54 billion weekly views concentrate on five Indian singers who do not appear in any Western territory's top 100. Frequency planning, music-adjacent placements, and cultural-moment marketing built on a single global chart read will systematically misallocate in one direction or the other. The files, released weekly and free, contain the correction.

Timeline

Summary

Who: YouTube, the video platform operated by Google under Alphabet, published the chart data. The artists at the center of the files include Shakira and Burna Boy ("Dai Dai"), the KPop Demon Hunters Cast ("Golden"), Indian playback singers Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan, Arijit Singh, Kumar Sanu, and Shreya Ghoshal, Mrs. GREEN APPLE, FEZA, Ariana Grande, and ATLXS. The audiences affected span marketing professionals, media buyers, labels, and publishers planning against music consumption data.

What: Weekly YouTube music chart files covering four global rankings and 15 country charts. "Dai Dai" led the global songs chart with 117,818,800 views - 27 percent above its mid-July documented peak - and held number one in nine of 15 territories. Indian playback singers occupied all five top artist positions with 1,544,704,536 combined weekly views. Local-language tracks led Brazil, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, and South Africa. The Shorts chart remained under the 72-week control of ATLXS's "PASSO BEM SOLTO (Slowed)."

When: The tracking period ran Friday, July 31 through Thursday, August 6, 2026. The trajectory context spans the track's debut in the week ending May 28, 2026 and the World Cup final on July 19, 2026.

Where: Across YouTube and YouTube Music globally, with individual 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 ended its Billboard data partnership on January 16, 2026, these weekly files constitute the primary public measurement of music consumption on the platform whose advertising business generated $11.1 billion in the second quarter of 2026. The data shows view volume concentrating in India, Brazil, and Indonesia while global hits dominate only Western markets plus Kenya, a split that determines where music-synchronized campaigns, sync licensing, and artist partnerships actually connect with audiences.