{"id":2046639,"date":"2026-07-16T16:20:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2046639"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:20:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:20:43","slug":"shakira-burna-boys-world-cup-anthem-is-the-no-1-song-in-the-world-but-where-is-it-biggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2046639","title":{"rendered":"Shakira & Burna Boy\u2019s World Cup Anthem Is the No. 1 Song in the World \u2013 But Where Is It Biggest?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tFittingly, Shakira and Burna Boy\u2019s World Cup anthem is the biggest song on Billboard<\/em>\u2019s global charts: \u201cDai Dai (FIFA World Cup Official Song 2026)\u201d climbed to No. 1 on the July 18-dated Billboard Global 200, while logging a third consecutive week atop the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. ranking. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s rising on the (U.S.-based) Billboard Hot 100 but has yet to crack the chart\u2019s top half, exposing a rare gap between the song\u2019s global dominance and domestic reception. The Global 200 and Hot 100 often align, so if \u201cDai Dai\u201d isn\u2019t (already) enormous in the United States, where is it?<\/p>\n

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    \n\tIn the week ending July 9, \u201cDai Dai\u201d drew 94.3 million official on-demand streams (chart-inclusive and -excluded) worldwide, according to Luminate. Typically, a charting song on the Global 200 receives somewhere between 25-30% of its global streams from the U.S., but for \u201cDai Dai,\u201d it\u2019s less than 8%. It makes sense for the track to under-index stateside, given the song\u2019s blend of Afrobeats and reggaet\u00f3n and mix of languages \u2014 not to mention soccer\u2019s smaller footprint in the U.S. relative to many other countries, despite U.S. cities hosting most of the tournament.<\/p>\n

    \n\tStill, the U.S. is responsible for more of the song\u2019s streams than anywhere else: 7.5 million last week. Given the U.S.\u2019s mammoth population and sterling streaming market, it\u2019s common for it to be a song\u2019s biggest contributor, even for artists from across the world, singing in different languages. When accounting for population, the U.S. ranks 37th for \u201cDai Dai,\u201d at 0.02 streams per person during the latest tracking week.<\/p>\n

    \n\tBy per-person streams, Norway leads the pack at 0.16 \u2013 seven times the rate of the average American. Norway\u2019s World Cup team remained competitive until its quarterfinals elimination against England on July 11 (with related consumption to be reflected in next week\u2019s July 25-dated charts). Luxembourg, Netherlands, France and Spain follow, and the next five are Switzerland, Belgium, Portugal, Sweden and Germany. Of the song\u2019s 10 biggest markets adjusted for population, five of them are represented by teams that were still in competition in the World Cup by the end of the July 9 tracking week. One other played in that span but lost (Portugal), and three more were eliminated the week before.<\/p>\n

    \n\tOnly Luxembourg did not qualify for the tournament, but still ranks second in national streaming rate with 0.13 streams per person. Notably, its population of 660,000 ranks 86th among the 90 countries that Luminate monitors, making it easier to centralize its listenership around \u201cDai Dai\u201d than countries like India (1.4 billion), Indonesia (334 million) or Brazil (216 million).<\/p>\n

    \n\tThe other three teams that were still in play by July 9 were Argentina, 12th with 0.06 streams per person; the United Kingdom, 27th with 0.04; and Morocco, 48th with 0.004.<\/p>\n

    \n\t\u201cDai Dai\u201d was released on May 15 and has posted gains in global consumption in every week since, ultimately rising from its Global 200 debut of No. 114 all the way to No. 1. South Africa has posted the biggest overall streaming increase, up 1,578% from its first week (42,000 streams) to its most recent (704,000). India, Japan, France, and Malaysia are next, all up more than 1,000% from seven weeks ago. The smallest overall increase comes from Burna Boy\u2019s native Nigeria, perhaps because initial excitement for his involvement with the track spurred first-week streams more so than ongoing momentum for the World Cup, for which Nigeria didn\u2019t qualify.<\/p>\n

    \n\tFrance\u2019s gains for \u201cDai Dai\u201d have been particularly noteworthy, up 1,192%. In the song\u2019s first week (May 15-21), France ranked seventh in overall volume with 566,000 streams. In the week of July 3-9, it rose to second with 7.3 million, only behind the U.S. France\u2019s share of \u201cDai Dai\u201d overall streams has essentially doubled, from 3.87% to 7.74%.<\/p>\n

    \n\tUltimately, World Cup performance has impacted where people stream \u201cDai Dai.\u201d Nineteen of its 25 biggest markets were active in the tournament through the week ending June 25, with 18 surviving through July 2 and 14 through July 9. Next week\u2019s chart will reflect the tracking week of July 10-16, which included games for the final eight teams ahead of Sunday\u2019s (July 19) championship between Argentina and Spain. Up 8% in global streams during the most recent chart period, momentum continues to push \u201cDai Dai\u201d higher and higher, around the world.<\/p>\n

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