This is tricky. Most "global" artists who aren't big in the US are dying to break into this market while most US acts don't really care about going WW.
And since the US market is more crowded and tougher to break, I think most artists aspire to be bigger here. Plus many US acts are making more money than WW acts.
So I'm not really sure if we can say WW>US
Preach now!
But anyway..it depends on the singular cases sometimes..
1. Dark Horse
2. Talk Dirty
3. Pompeii
4. Drunk In Love
5. Timber
6. Team
7. Say Something
8. Counting Stars
9. Happy
10. Royals
11. Let Her Go
12. All Of Me
13. Let It Go
14. The Man
15. The Monster
16. Radioactive
17. Burn
18. Demons
19. Wake Me Up
20. Hold On, We're Going Home
21. Sweater Weather
22. Show Me
23. Hey Brother
24. Roar
25. Story Of My Life
26. Happy (2nd version)
27. Wrecking Ball
28. Adore You
29. Do I Wanna Know?
30. Can't Hold Us
31. Can't Remember To Forget You
32. Rap God
33. Safe And Sound
34. Sail
35. Love Me Again
36. Tennis Court
37. Turn Down For What
38. XO
39. Blurred Lines
40. Animals
SO more than 2M streams this week for Happy... COMING STRONG!!!
only 0.3 less streams on Spotify... the video ruined everything for him! Still... gonna be close.
Two interesting situations in the BB100 top 10 this week:
Pompeii: #5 iTunes, #3 Spotify, #6 radio. I see this song getting to at least #7 if not #6. It's not below #6 on any metric, so I would be surprised if it is any lower than #7. I'm surprised how well it is doing on streaming.
Team: #9 iTunes, #6 Spotify, #2 radio. Harder to predict. Maybe #7? If it was doing well on iTunes, even if it was only pulling Pompeii numbers, it'd be a lock for top 5. Instead, I think #6 - #8 is most likely.
29 is amazing. You should listen to it. It's the #1 song on the ALT charts for almost 2 months now.
35 is also amazing. One of the best dance songs out right now.
I'm guessing you're referring to iTunes, where it is currently #7. Some minor fluctuations in SS and Timber have allowed Team, which is getting pretty much only white and red updates, to take #7. It'll probably be back at #8 or #9 tomorrow though.
I don't know if the streams will be enough for Katy to stay at #1. Airplay is almost identical and Pharrell is gonna have a HUGE sales lead. I bet "Happy" takes it this week.
"Dark Horse" will probably spend many more weeks at #2, though. It's very strong overall.
