The most surprising thing about “Dai Dai” hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 this week is not that it got there, but how long it took. The FIFA World Cup Official Song 2026 from Shakira and Burna Boy had already spent three weeks on top of the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart before finally breaking through to rule the worldwide ranking, jumping two spots to claim the top position for the chart dated July 18, 2026.
The numbers behind the climb are solid. “Dai Dai” pulled in 41.5 million streams globally in the tracking week of July 3-9, up 8% from the previous week, alongside 6,000 in sales worldwide, per Luminate data. That kind of streaming momentum, sustained well into a tournament cycle, says a lot about how deeply the song has embedded itself across markets.
For Burna Boy, this is a first. The Afrobeats superstar has never led the Global 200 before, and doing it on a World Cup stage, in a co-billed moment with one of pop’s most enduring names, is a pretty significant way to get there. Shakira, on the other hand, is back at the top for the second time, having previously led the chart in March 2023 with “TQG” alongside Karol G.
The two performed the track live for a reported 80,000-plus fans at the FIFA World Cup 2026 opening ceremony on June 11 at Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca, one of the most storied football venues on the planet. That performance almost certainly gave the song a visibility boost that pure radio or streaming promotion rarely replicates. There is something about a stadium full of people hearing a song for the first time in that context that tends to lodge it in the cultural memory fast.
“Dai Dai” is also making history in a quieter way. Billboard’s Global 200 and Global Excl. U.S. charts launched in 2020, and no official World Cup anthem had ever led either of them before this one. That is a detail worth sitting with, given how many World Cups have come and gone with massive anthem campaigns behind them.
On the Global Excl. U.S. side, the song leads with 37.1 million streams outside the United States, also up 8% week over week. The top five on that chart has barely moved, with BTS’ “Swim” holding at No. 2 after eight weeks on top since April, and Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me” sitting at No. 3 after its own two-week run at No. 1 in June.
Elsewhere on the charts, there is a genuinely interesting subplot developing around Temper City, a Los Angeles-based rock trio comprising Aviv Barenholtz, Chen Kordova, and Eytan Peled. Their song “Self Aware” climbed to No. 9 on Global Excl. U.S. this week, up from No. 11, marking the act’s first top 10 on either global chart. The song broke through on TikTok earlier this year and has since reached the top 10 of Hot Rock & Alternative Songs. Peled recently told Billboard, “This project we made has no AI in it whatsoever. Just us playing in the room and very raw, raw energy.” In a chart landscape dominated by carefully engineered pop and World Cup spectacle, that framing is landing with people.
The World Cup final is set for Sunday, July 19 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, where Shakira, Justin Bieber, BTS, and Madonna are all scheduled to perform at the first-ever World Cup final halftime show. Whether “Dai Dai” holds its No. 1 position through that event, or gets an even bigger spike from it, is the next question.
